UNIT TEST

• Syllabary and Alphabet – Illustrates the development of information processing to handle larger amounts of data with greater abstraction
• Media Globalization – Refers to the internationalization of national media systems, making them more open to outside influences in content, ownership, and control​
• Electronic Media – Includes television, radio, internet, fax, CD-ROMs, DVD, and other mediums that rely on electricity or digital encoding​
• Computer – Considered the most important media influencing globalization​
• Writing – Humankind’s principal technology for collecting, manipulating, storing, retrieving, communicating, and disseminating information
• Global Village – Expresses the idea that people worldwide are interconnected through new media technologies​
• • Marshall McLuhan – Coined the term "global village" in the 1960s​
• World Music – An umbrella category for traditional and non-Western music produced for Western consumption
• Oral Communication – The oldest and most enduring form of media​
• Printing Press – A device enabling the mass production of uniform printed materials such as books, pamphlets, and newspapers
• True – Written and orderly arrangements of documents are done through script for dissemination to other places​
• False – The introduction of cellphones → The introduction of television was a defining moment in globalization​
• False – Lands and culture were learned through rituals → Lands and culture were learned through travels
• False – The term electronic media is often used in reference to print media → The term electronic media is often used in contrast to print media​
• True – Music participates in reinforcing cultural and identity boundaries​
• False – Revolutionized by a host of new media in the beginning of the 19th century → New media revolutionized globalization processes at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century
• True – The change in popular music is not an outcome of globalization but rather a part of its phenomenon​
• True – In the 20th century, radio was the only mass media available in remote villages, and film soon developed as an artistic medium​
• True – Sharing information facilitates human adaptation and movement to new environments​
• True – Companies involved in globalization include Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook​