Monday, March 1, 2010

Today, the students are to read pages 38 to 53 in their text and then answer the following questions (these were given out in booklet form and are very short answer ones so don't let the numbers bother you).

INSTRUCTIONS: Read this chapter and answer all of the questions in this booklet neatly and completely.

1. What is popular culture?



2. Besides your purchasing power, what affects popular culture? Provide an example



3. What are Transnational media companies? Provide examples of what they produce.




4. What is the impact of transnational media companies? What do we call this impact?




5. Define Universalization of popular culture



6. What is a pop culture icon? Provide an example that is NOT in the book.



Impact of Media Transnationals

7. What began to happen to companies in different media industries in the 1980s and 1990s?


8. Provide an example of the above


9. What is the concentration of media ownership called?


10. What is the problem with this concentration of media ownership?


11. What is the CRTC?


12. What does the CRTC do?


13. What is the CRTC hoping to ensure?


14. What problems might some people have with the CRTC?



15. What is CAVCO?



16. What does CAVCO do?


17. Who uses the CAVCO points system?


18. How many points does a film or show need in order to be considered CanCon?


A New Mix: Hybridization


19. What are some of the ways that hybridization can shape identity?



20. What is hybridization?


21. What often is used to create hybridization?



22. Provide an example of hybridization.



Mixing it Up

23. What is a hybrid?


24. What three ways do we “mix it up”? Provide an example of each

1.


2.


3.


25. What two views are there about hybridization that are presented in this reading?







Cultural Diversity through Broadcasting Technology

26. Define what is meant by minority cultural group? Name two.



27. Name two minority cultural groups mentioned in this reading.


28. Define cultural diversity


29. Using the chart on page 48, answer the following questions:

a. How many television services are available in English, French, and languages other than English or French?



b. How many community cable service providers are there?

c. How many foreign television services can Canadians access?



d. To what extent do television choices shape Canadian collective and individual identities?



30. What problems are there on Canadian television today (based on the Voices reading on page 49)?




31. What is the APTN?



32. What four facts about the APTN are presented in this reading?






33. Why is the APTN important for those who watch it?




34. What Radio stations support Francophone language interests?




35. What is the TV5 and how popular is it?


What is the problem with International news agencies such as CNN and BBC