Chapter 11 Practice Quiz

. Which of the following features of globalization is a new phenomenon?

Immediacy of long-range social interaction

International migration

Mobility of investment capital

Global circulation of cultural products

. Which of the following is a definition of globalization?

The set of processes by which social, cultural, political and economic relations extend farther than ever before, with greater frequency, immediacy, and facility.

An appreciation of the contributions of every country to the global village.

The ability to communicate with citizens and governments around the world.

None of the above

. World leaders feeling increasingly compelled to assist other countries, even distant ones, with issues such as famine, disease, war or natural disasters is an example of which sphere of globalization?

Economic

Political

Social

Cultural

. Approximately ________ of Canada's population is made up of visible minorities.

10 per cent

15 per cent

20 per cent

25 per cent

. As a result of globalization, regions of the world are now seen primarily as ________.

reservoirs

factories

resource pools

markets

. Which of the following regions is NOT part of the "global triad" that Murray discusses?

The European Union

East and Southeast Asia

North America

All of the above are part of the "global triad"

. One of the shortcomings of the media imperialism thesis is that it ________.

invokes the Marxist theory of the alienation of labour, which has been disproved

concentrates too narrowly on the reactions of individual audience members

assumes that everyone in a country that imports cultural products is a victim

uses biased anti-American rhetoric to describe an accidental process

. The interdependence characteristic of globalization is usually ________.

balanced

asymmetrical

immediate

blind

. Large, transnational media companies are most interested in all of the following markets except ________.

North America

Latin America

Europe

Africa

. Large, global media companies have advantages over smaller producers in ________.

the ability to hire skilled professionals

the aesthetic quality of their productions

the power of their corporate brands

All of the above

. The components of Giddens' four-dimensional model of globalization do not include ________.

the network society

the world capitalist economy

the world military order

the nation-state system

. The phrase that sums up the American desire for "unrestricted communications for news throughout the world" is ________.

open-source doctrine

freedom-of-information doctrine

universal-access doctrine

free-flow doctrine

. UNESCO's MacBride Report favoured ________.

the promotion of Western cultural hegemony

the democratization of communication

the preservation of existing patent conventions

international regulation of national communication patterns

. Most Canadian daily newspapers receive their international news from ________.

citizen journalists

the internet

government press releases

international wire services

. The Geneva declaration of the World Summit on the Information Society defined "information" as ________.

a commodity that should be freely traded among nations

a commodity whose trade should be governed to ensure equitable distribution among nations

a resource for the promotion of freedom, equality, peace, and democracy

a resource for the advancement of education and commerce in the global south

. The digital divide refers to ________.

the gap between those countries with digital technologies and those with analog services

the gap between those people with ready access to digital technologies and those without

the gap between the costs of digital and analog technologies

the gap created when computers misread 0 and 1 coding

. According to the most recent Statistics Canada survey (2012), ________ of Canadian households have internet access.

65 per cent

70 per cent

83 per cent

92 per cent

. Canadian communication practices have only recently become tied to into international circulation, due to increased globalization.

True

False

. Technological innovation is the principal determinant of global integration.

True

False

. Globalization has impacted the sovereignty of national governments.

True

False

. Media imperialism is sometimes now described as media globalization.

True

False

. According to Castells, the network society has considerable implications for the inclusion and exclusion of people and places from the network of global information flows.

True

False

. Canadian citizens are more familiar with their own artists and intellectuals than with cultural imports.

True

False

. Currently, the media of mass communication in Canada underrepresents racial-minority communities.

True

False

. All people benefit equally from the economic participation in globalization processes.

True

False

. The basic economic resources in the information age or network society are labour and natural resources.

True

False

. Under globalization, all significant social relations now occur on a global scale.

True

False

. Globalization has led to an increased appreciation of public broadcasting systems such as Canada's CBC and the United States' PBS.

True

False

. Communication technologies have to a great extent enabled globalization.

True

False

. The notion of cultural dependency implies the use of media by one country to gain political control over another.

True

False

. The free-flow doctrine of international communication was most prominently opposed by the United States, as it meant their media products would not be circulated as widely as those of other countries.

True

False

. The domination of global news services by a handful of news agencies did not begin until the middle of the twentieth century.

True

False

. Globalization alters the context in which mass communication takes place.

True

False

. Canada is one of the world's leading exporters of television programming.

True

False

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