Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Today, we defined and reviewed terms we have touched on so far this year. You had to define the following (we did some in class so I gave you those as well; the rest is homework and due next Tuesday).

4.CanCon a slang short form for Canadian Content. When we talked about control of the airwaves on the first day and how much control the government should have over what we view and from where, this one came up.

5.CRTC Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

11.Cultural contact when two independent cultures interact (Aboriginals and Europeans is a safe example)

12.Communications everything we use to transmit data or information from one person or device
technologies to another (processes, tools and techniques)

23. media the different ways of delivering mass communication, such as newspapers, radio, and television

33. universalization the spread of one popular culture around the world
of popular culture

responsibilities

7.Civilian anyone who is not a member of a country’s military force (unless you’ve signed up and I don’t know about it… this means YOU! And me…..)

8.Collective the common characteristics and values used to define a group
Identity

9.Cultural diversity the variety of human cultures we see, either in a specific region, or in the world as a whole

10.Colony What we were, in the beginning. When a territory is claimed and ruled by another country... in our case, people travelled here from a ruling country (well, more than two..) and created settlements here taking over.


1. Bias something a person feels or believes that makes it hard or impossible to judge a person or situation fairly

2.Boycott HIT’EM WHERE IT HURTS! This is what is happening when people (consumers) organize a campaign to refuse to buy goods or services from a business or country because they disagree with something it is doing (its policies).

3.Buycott REWARD THEM This is what is happening when people (consumers) organize a campaign to purposely buy goods or services from a company to show that they agree with its corporate policies.
6.Civic
13.Consumer

14.Consumerism
26. monopoly

27. petition
15.Free market
29. sweatshop

30. TNC

31. transnational

16.Gender
17.Globalization

18. Homogenization
19. Hyphenated Canadian

20. individual identity

21. interconnected

22. linguistic
identity


24. minority cultural
25. cultural group


28. point of view

32. universality