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| English is the lingua franca of global communication, but these points are true: | A. English is a Germanic language that has Latin, Greek, French, Sanskrit, Arabic, Swahili, Japanese & Chinese words, B. There are many "Englishes" and many different English accents around the world, C. English became the global lingua franca through British colonialism, American science, technology and business. CORRECT ANSWER: All of the Above |
| English is the lingua franca of global communication, but these points are true: | A. English is a Germanic language that has Latin, Greek, French, Sanskrit, Arabic, Swahili, Japanese & Chinese words, B. There are many "Englishes" and many different English accents around the world, C. English became the global lingua franca through British colonialism, American science, technology and business. CORRECT ANSWER: All of the Above |
| English is the lingua franca of global communication, but these points are true: | A. English is a Germanic language that has Latin, Greek, French, Sanskrit, Arabic, Swahili, Japanese & Chinese words, B. There are many "Englishes" and many different English accents around the world, C. English became the global lingua franca through British colonialism, American science, technology and business. CORRECT ANSWER: All of the Above |
| In communication, the term "digital divide" refers to: | The gap between those who have access to information and communication technologies and those who don't |
| Globalization can be thought of as: | A. The interconnection of nations, cultures, and peoples through information and communication technologies, B. Americanization and Westernization of global culture, C. Homogenization and standardization of content transmitted by the media, CORRECT ANSWER: D. All of the Above |
| The BBC program on voice-activated elevators is about different English accents. It demonstrates that: | CORRECT ANSWERS (B&C): B. English is a global language (lingua Franca) but there are many varieties of English accents in the United Kingdom and around the world, C. American manufacturers of voice-activated equipment need to be aware that there are different English accents around the world |
| When Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore talked of the "global village," they meant that: | The media are interconnecting the world, making it "smaller" and changing societies and social systems |
| In communication and media studies, the term "media convergence" means: | The blending or fusion of technologies and media content on the Internet |
| Wikipedia is becoming one of the greatest platforms for the collection and editing of knowledge. It is remarkable because: | It is a non-profit, commons-based knowledge-creation platform with a prefix from Hawaii |
| Google's search system is based on a secret algorithm. The words algebra and "algorithm" originated from: | Early Arabian & Persian mathematicians |
| The international organization that regulates telecommunications and sets transnational communication standards for audio, video, satellite and Internet streaming is: | The International Telecommunications Union |
| The communication process is a continuous process of encoding and decoding. This means: | Senders encode messages in communication technologies, transmit them through communication channels to receivers who decode them |
| Chinese architecture of censorship that filters the content of the open Internet: | The Great Firewall of China |
| International digital standard for audio and video | MPEG3 & MPEG4 |
| Biblical architecture structure that stands as a metaphor for the beginning of global linguistic and cultural diversity | The Tower of Babel |
| Commons-based, non-profit knowledge development platform, the opposite of knowledge capitalism | Wikipedia |
| The divide between those who have access to intellectual resources & those who don't | The Digital Divide |
| Fusion of different media technologies and systems on the Internet | Technological and Media Convergence |
| The international broadcaster of Japan | NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokei) |
| Languages that are grounded in Latin grammar, Emerged after the collapse of the Roman Empire | Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian |
| The most common radio broadcasting technologies on the electromagnetic spectrum | Amplitude Modulation (AM) and Frequency Modulation (FM) |
| Another name for the Internet search business model | Linguistic capitalism |
| Societies in which large proportions of the population is engaged in the production, processing, storage, dissemination and consumption of information | Information Societies |
| Hindu/Indian digit on the number line that is the foundation of the global binary digital system | The Zero |
| The movement of innovations and ideas from the periphery to the center of the global system | Counter-Diffusion |
| Technical expression used to describe blended telecommunications, telephony, computer and broadcast technologies that make globalization possible | Information and communication technologies |
| Berlo's model of communication | SMCR (Source, Message, Channel and Receiver) |
| Activity that is described as a "defining human right." | Human Communication |
| McLuhan's expression which means that the media changes society irrespective of their content | "The medium is the message" |
| Group of engineers that set the global standard for still images and graphics | Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) |
| Explain the 2 types of sexual harassment engaged in Weinstein and Cuomo | Creation of a hostile working environment, Quid Pro Quo |
| The first book printed in the Western world by Johan Gutenberg in 1450 with the use of movable type | The Latin Bible |
| Organization that sets the standard for analog and digital radio, TYV, satellite and Internet communications | The International Telecommunication Union |
| Theoretical expression that explains why telenovelas from Latin America are broadcast to Spanish-speaking audiences in the United States | Linguistic and Cultural Proximity |
| Tragic international event that led to the standardization and development of radio in international communication | The Sinking of the Titanic in 1912 |
| The international broadcaster of the United States government | The Voice of America |
| Deliberately taking elements of specific cultures out of context, presenting them inaccurately, and making money from those presentations | Cultural Appropriation |
| The Internet regulatory system of dictatorial countries like China, Cuba, and North Korea | The government is the gateway to the Internet for all citizens |
| American Spanish language broadcasters | CNN en Espanol, UNIVISION, and TeleMundo |
| The most popular & most influential Middle Eastern Arabic language satellite broadcaster | Al-Jazeera (the free one) |
| The most important news event of the 20th Century, created global consciousness | The Apollo 11 Moon Landing of 1969 |
| Program that led to the miniaturization of computer and telecommunication technology | The NASA Space Program |
| Sporting event in which the first intercontinental live satellite broadcasts were used | The 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games |
| Key technological innovations that led to globalization of the media | The Chiappe Telegraph, the Morse Telegraph, the telephone, and Marconi's trans-Atlantic wireless communication |
| American Constitutional document that protects the freedom of religion, freedom of speech and expression of Americans | The First Amendment |
| The production, processing, storage, retrieval and monetization of information | Informational or Digital Capitalism |
| International document that protects human rights and freedom of expression around the world | Article 19 Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| Sexual harassment is a violation of this branch of the law | The Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| One of the negative consequences of globalization and the interconnection of nations and peoples | The emergence and diffusion of the Covid19/Coronavirus pandemic to all parts of the world |
| The international organization that recommends specific audio and video standards to facilitate global interconnection is: | The Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) |
| Wireless telecommunication technology is important in everyday life. The first international wireless telecommunication was carried out by: | Gugliemo Marconi who transmitted a message from the UK to Canada in 1901 |
| English is the lingua franca of global communication, but these points are true: | A. English is a Germanic language that has Latin, Greek, French, Sanskrit, Arabic, Swahili, Japanese & Chinese words, B. There are many "Englishes" and many different English accents around the world, C. English became the global lingua franca through British colonialism, American science, technology and business. CORRECT ANSWER: All of the Above |
| CNN International and Al-Jazeera are comparable but yet different. They can be distinguished as follows: | CORRECT ANSWERS A&B: A. CNN is part of a commercial conglomerate while Al-Jazeera is funded by the government of Qatar, B. Al-Jazeera reports the news from an Arab-Islamic perspective, while CNN reports from a liberal American cultural perspective |
| The word "Avatar" is originally a Sanskrit (Hindu) word that means: | Manifestation of a deity/god or released soul in bodily form |
| From a cultural perspective, the United States is closer to the United Kingdom than to any other country. This closeness is due to: | Linguistic Proximity, Cultural Proximity, The diffusion of English and literary works like the King James Bible, Shakespeare & cinematic talent from the UK to the US. ANSWER: All of the Above |
| The difference between knowledge capitalism (commercial online databases) and commons-based knowledge creation and distribution is: | Linguistic capitalists like Google charge for their databases while Commons-based knowledge creators like Wikipedia provide information for free |
| The world is interconnected and Social Media are global phenomena. Online video streaming around the world is made possible by the following technology: | MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) |
| Two of the oldest writing technological innovations are: | Cuneiform on clay tablets, and hieroglyphics on papyrus and other surfaces |
| The first live international broadcast transmission of a global news event was: | The Apollo 11 moon landings of 1969 |
| The theory of diffusion of media innovation across the globe operates as follows: | Innovations diffuse from a center to the periphery but once in a while an innovation may diffuse from the periphery to the center |
| Which of the following statements is true of the English language in the age of globalization? | The English language is the lingua franca of the global village, there are many varieties of English "Englishes" in the world, native speakers of English are the minority users of English in the global era |
| The term Electromagnetic Spectrum refers to: | A. Naturally occurring waves emitted by the earth as it spins in space, B. Part of the broadcasting spectrum that includes AM & FM radio CORRECT ANSWERS: Both |
| The root of "global consciousness," the realization that human beings live in one planetary system that should be protected, arose from: | Apollo Images that showed the earth as a fragile "blue marble" floating in space |
| The vocabulary of international communication comes from many cultures. Give the Latin/Greek terms for the following words/expressions that describe modern communication technologies: 1- To see images from afar, 2- Long distance communication, 3- To hear, 4- Common global or regional languages spoken by native and non-native speakers. | 1- To see images from afar, 2- Long distance communication, 3- To hear, 4- Common global or regional languages spoken by native and non-native speakers. |
| The following are information capitalists or international commercial broadcasts: | CNN, O Globo, SkyNews, Televisa |
| In this course, we have defined the word "media" and explained it as: | Electronic technologies that human beings use to communicate in real space and cyberspace, plural form of the word "medium" which originates from the Latin word, medius (middle), in the communication process, the media are in the "middle" between the sender (encoder) and the receiver (decoder) CORRECT ANSWER: All of the Above |