chapter 15
The global reach of media giants and their ability to promote their programming in foreign markets raises the issue of __________.
cultural imperialism
Which theoretical concept is most relevant to the study of LGBTQ communities?
cultural imperialism
Backlash against American foreign policy sometimes takes the form of __________, specifically, __________.
cybercrime/hacking
Which theory addresses situations where criticism of governmental policies is encouraged and the import and export of media messages across national borders unrestricted?
libertarian
How much has Internet penetration in Asia grown since the year 2000?
1,100 percent
Canadian legislation requires that __________ percent of the content on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the national public radio and television broadcaster, be Canadian content.
50
Research shows that Western news agencies historically produce as much as __________ percent of the news distributed globally.
80
The Doha Film Institute in the Middle East receives arts funding from the government of Qatar, with financial support from the Qatar Foundation. Which of the following media companies is also based in Qatar?
Al Jazeera
Which geographical region has the most Internet users?
Asia
What is CanCon?
Canadian content created primarily by Canadian talent
In January 2015, the editorial offices of which French magazine were attacked by terrorists angry about a cartoon that satirized the Islamic prophet Muhammad?
Charlie Hebdo
Countries such as __________ have become sources for developers of relatively cheap software and computer-programming workers, as well as database centers.
India
Which company became a digital media leader in 2013 as a result of its horizontally integrated distribution system that branched out to deliver diverse forms of media content, including books, newspapers, and magazines?
Itunes
Who was one of the creators of YouTube?
Jawed Karim
Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci has written extensively on which theoretical concept?
Media Hegemony
UNESCO's research yielded the acronym NWICO, which stands for __________.
New World Information and Communication Order
In which country did over 90 percent of the residents have Internet access at the time this textbook was published?
Norway
Which top grossing Indian film has made over $110 million worldwide in box office receipts, only half of which were generated domestically in India?
PK
Which scholars outlined four theories of international mass communication that are still relevant today but now seen as ideal rather than exact models for twenty-first- century media?
Sibert, Schramm, and Peterson
Your favorite news source does more than simply report the facts. It places them in context and provides analysis, explanation, and interpretation of events. This approach is most consistent with which theory of international mass communication?
Social responsibility
The U.S. Commerce Department is working with technology and media companies to develop rules and protocols for sharing online-threat information with the government as well as __________.
Strategies for cyber defense
Which news organization has established itself as a global leader in investigative journalism, breaking both the story of widespread NSA digital surveillance and the alleged sexual escapades of Donald Trump?
The Guardian
Through such video-sharing sites as __________, the Web has expanded the horizons of many viewers and media users across the world.
YouTube
Cyberterrorism operates on a global level. For example, one of the suspects in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings had allegedly accessed materials from which organization?
al Qaeda
You are researching a country in political turmoil whose government was recently overthrown in a military coup. Which theory of international mass communication would be most relevant to your project?
authoritarian
Which theory of international mass communication can be described as the oldest system, extending back to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England?
authoritarian theory
Emerging in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Europe, the __________ was a new societal class that recognized the differing economic and political interests of business, government, and citizens.
bourgeoisie
Democratic socialist theory is most applicable to which of the following countries?
canada
Which of the following Asian countries blocks citizens' access to a wide range of websites and has a history of presenting difficult ethical choices for media organizations that, like Google and Yahoo, have elected to do business there?
china
Contemporary __________ that allows authors to self-publish and sell their works can disempower companies that have traditionally controlled these processes.
digital technology
Advances in digital technology since the 1970s have altered the debate about intercultural communication, regional coexistence, and the relative __________ of the developed world.
dominance
Media convergence continues to bring people and countries closer together and in doing so produces new challenges, such as those related to __________.
global national security
In the twenty-first century, several U.S. media corporations have built global media empires, a development that has transformed our international media landscape and is commonly referred to as __________.
globalization
Jillian been assigned the debate position of opposing greater tax cuts for the rich in an upcoming forensics competition. Which of the following theoretical concepts would be most relevant to her debate research and argument?
hegemony
Because of its global reach and impact, media convergence has the potential to provide access to diverse ideas, customs, and behaviors, but it can also encourage increased cultural __________, particularly given the common ownership of various media types.
homogeneity
Which country in Asia is particularly successful at protecting the interests of Bollywood, a film industry that promotes indigenous culture and traditions?
india
A problem with local programming in countries without the resources for lavish productions is that such programming __________.
looks visually amateurish
Print media are often used to foster business development in a region, although their effectiveness is limited in countries with __________.
low literacy rates
In the mid 1970s, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) led a global examination of __________ around the world.
news flow and media entertainment
What delivered news in Europe through the early nineteenth century before being superseded by the invention of the electric telegraph?
pigeons
Global media production and viewership in the entertainment and sports realms have grown dramatically in the digital age as __________ costs have gone down, while __________ possibilities have increased.
production/distribution
A fundamental tension, according to Freud, stems from the instinctive desire of the individual for freedom that conflicts with civilization's inherent need for order imposed through __________.
social conformity
Which of the following assertions about Soviet theory is correct?
soviet theory asserts that the media should recognize their responsibility to the people and self-regulate their content
Although Daria has broadband, high-speed, wireless, and mobile Internet access, she lacks the critical-thinking skills to discern high-quality information and employ it for meaningful purposes. This scenario illustrates that there are two components to the digital divide: __________ and __________.
technological/educational
The blockbuster film Iron Man 3 was co-produced in China by __________ and China's DMG Entertainment Group.
the Walt Disney Company
Larger quality-of-life issues such as access to clean water, healthcare, and free education frame the debate about what important topic?
the digital divide
In 2012, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) financed the launch of __________.
the first community radio station in Malaysia
Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, has identified which of the following as one of the greatest challenges currently confronting Hollywood?
the globalization of audiences
French political historian Alexis de Tocqueville referred to a situation in which governmental laws and policies benefit the majority of individuals in a community without concern for the welfare or rights of minority groups and individuals as _________.
the tyranny of the majority
The digital innovation of YouTube was a collaborative effort of young people disillusioned by the __________.
universal difficulty of sharing video online