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Question 1:

The following feature of globalization is a new phenomenon: ________.
a) Immediacy of long-range social interaction
b) International migration
c) Mobility of investment capital
d) Global circulation of cultural products

Question 2:

Approximately ________ of Canada’s population is made up of visible minorities.
a) 10 percent
b) 15 percent
c) 20 percent
d) 25 percent

Question 3:

As a result of globalization, regions of the world are now seen primarily as ________.
a) reservoirs
b) factories
c) resource pools
d) markets

Question 4:

According to management guru Peter Drucker, ________ is now the “basic economic resource” in the world.
a) knowledge
b) capital
c) labour
d) resources

Question 5:

The interdependence characteristic of globalization is usually ________.
a) balanced
b) asymmetrical
c) immediate
d) blind

Question 6:

One of the shortcomings of the media imperialism thesis is that it ________.
a) invokes the Marxist theory of the alienation of labour, which has been disproved
b) concentrates too narrowly on the reactions of individual audience members
c) assumes that everyone in a country that imports cultural products is a victim
d) uses biased anti-American rhetoric to describe an accidental process

Question 7:

The phrase that sums up the American desire for “unrestricted communications for news throughout the world” is ________.
a) open-source doctrine
b) freedom-of-information doctrine
c) universal-access doctrine
d) free-flow doctrine

Question 8:

UNESCO’s MacBride Report favoured ________.
a) the promotion of Western cultural hegemony
b) the democratization of communication
c) the preservation of existing patent conventions
d) international regulation of national communication patterns

Question 9:

________ sparked debate on international communication in the 1970s.
a) The internet
b) Satellite communication
c) Colour television
d) The cellular phone

Question 10:

Most Canadian daily newspapers receive their international news from ________.
a) citizen journalists
b) the internet
c) government press releases
d) international wire services

Question 11:

The digital divide refers to ________.
a) the gap between those countries with digital technologies and those with analog services
b) the gap between those people with ready access to digital technologies and those without
c) the gap between the costs of digital and analog technologies
d) the gap created when computers misread 0 and 1 coding

Question 12:

According to the most recent Statistics Canada survey (2012), ________ of Canadian households have internet access.
a) 65 percent
b) 73 percent
c) 85 percent
d) 92 percent

Question 13:

The debate over reasonable accommodation in Quebec during 2006–2007 concerned ________.
a) the problem of homelessness in the province’s major cities
b) the lack of affordable housing in the province’s major cities
c) the question of diversity in the Quebec population
d) the question of decreasing levels of bilingualism in the province

Question 14:

Benedict Anderson defined the nation as ________.
a) “a politically-constituted community”
b) “an imagined political community”
c) “a closed political community”
d) “a legally-constituted political community”

Question 15:

The Geneva declaration of the World Summit on the Information Society defined “information” as ________.
a) a commodity that should be freely traded among nations
b) a commodity whose trade should be governed to ensure equitable distribution among nations
c) a resource for the promotion of freedom, equality, peace, and democracy
d) a resource for the advancement of education and commerce in the global south

Question 16:

The components of Giddens’ four-dimensional model of globalization do not include ________.
a) the network society
b) the world capitalist economy
c) the world military order
d) the nation-state system

Question 17:

According to 2014 ITU figures, mobile device penetration in the developed world is 84 percent, while in developing countries mobile device penetration is approximately ________.
a) 70 percent
b) 50 percent
c) 40 percent
d) 20 percent

Question 18:

Both national forms of governance and global forms of capitalism require efficient means of communication in order to ________.
a) establish a coherent agenda
b) monitor activities of remote departments
c) receive reports from local managers or governors in the field
d) All of the above

Question 19:

Large, global media companies have advantages over smaller producers in ________.
a) the ability to hire skilled professionals
b) the aesthetic quality of their productions
c) the power of their corporate brands
d) All of the above

Question 20:

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.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

A significant step in the internationalization of the news in Canada occurred when Al Jazeera came to Canada in 2010.
a) True
b) False

Question 22:

Canadian citizens are more familiar with their own artists and intellectuals than with cultural imports.
a) True
b) False

Question 23:

Currently, the media of mass communication in Canada underrepresents racial-minority communities.
a) True
b) False

Question 24:

All people benefit equally from the economic participation in globalization processes.
a) True
b) False

Question 25:

The basic economic resources in the information age or network society are labour and natural resources.
a) True
b) False

Question 26:

Under globalization, all significant social relations now occur on a global scale.
a) True
b) False

Question 27:

Chances are that a child born in 2000 in Kamloops, British Columbia will likely grow up, work, and retire there.
a) True
b) False

Question 28:

Communication technologies have to a great extent enabled globalization.
a) True
b) False

Question 29:

A chief obstacle to globalization is that it is necessary to organize production based on the factory model.
a) True
b) False

Question 30:

Globalization challenges the sovereignty of individual nations.
a) True
b) False

Question 31:

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

Question 32:

Globalization alters the context in which mass communication takes place.
a) True
b) False

Question 33:

Despite pressures to privatize, the BBC remains the world’s largest entirely public broadcaster.
a) True
b) False

Question 34:

Canada is one of the world’s leading exporters of television programming.
a) True
b) False

Question 35:

The notion of cultural dependency implies the use of media by one country to gain political control over another.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Gasher: Chapter 11