SOC101 MIDTERM

• Global media


  The various means of communication that transmit information, entertainment, or messages to a large audience
• Medium


  A channel, means, or method
• Three different forms of media


  • Print media
  • Broadcast media
  • Digital media
• Print media


  Newspapers, books, magazines, comics, and pamphlets
• Broadcast media


  Television, radio, satellites, mobile phones, and movies/films
• Digital media


  "New Media" - Internet, social media, and computers
• Cohesion role of mass media


  • Enhancing globalization, facilitating culture exchange, and multiple flows of information and image between countries
• Telegraph invented


  1837
• Media globalization


  The universal integration of media through the multicultural exchange of ideas
• Global media


  All forms of mass communication that reach every corner across the globe
• Media development role


  Exposing people to new ideas, beliefs, systems, structures, etc.
• Global media impact


  Creates a constant flow of cultures in which fundamental concepts like identity, country, religion, social mores, and way of life are persistently questioned and contested
• Culture


  The shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a social group
• Culture


  The way people in a given community or society to live, communicate, and interact
• Dynamic culture


  A continuous process of productive activity which leads to a change
• Local culture


  Relates to anything that comes from a city, town, or small sector
• Global culture


  Pertains to something that involves the entire world or on a worldwide scale
• Local culture production


  Establishing standards, norms, and simply the way of life of a society
• Global culture production


  The transmission, integration, and sharing of culture on a global cycle which is doable with the help of information technology
• Scale of global culture production

  The globalization of culture by sharing and presenting local culture to worldwide audiences
• Transmission of global culture


  Sharing information became easier in the digital era with the possibilities information technology has to offer
• Local art


  • Madhubani art
  • Ukiyo-e art
  • Cubism
• Local music


  • Harana
  • Kundiman
• Local theater


  • Senakulo
• Global culture production areas


  • Fashion
  • Arts and music
  • Food
  • Language
  • International education
• Cultural differentialism


  Emphasizes the fact that cultures are essentially different and are only superficially affected by global flows
• Cultural hybridization


  The process by which a cultural element blends into another culture by modifying the element to fit cultural norms
• Cultural hybridization example


  • Creole languages, a new language developed from simplifying and blending different languages that come into contact within a particular population, at a specific point in time
• Cultural convergence


  The cultural convergence approach stresses homogeneity introduced by globalization
• Religion


  A collection of cultural systems, beliefs systems, and world views that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality and to moral values
• Most well known religions across the world


  • Christianity
  • Islam
  • Hinduism
  • Buddhism
  • Judaism
• Religion


  A system of beliefs and practices
• Religion


  The Latin word "RELIGARE" means "to bind together again that which was once bound but has since been torn apart or broken"
• Religion/faith


  Has grown significantly in relevance as a non-territorial touchstone of identity as a result of globalization
• Christianity


  An Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
• Christianity


  The most widely practiced religion in the world, with more than 2 billion followers
• Bible


  The sacred scriptures of Christians comprising the Old Testament and the New Testament
• Islam


  The second largest religion in the world after Christianity, with about 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide
• Quran


  A religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of the God of Abraham as it was revealed to Muhammad the main and final Islamic prophet
• Ramadan


  One of the most sacred days for Muslims, which falls during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar