Exam 15: Global Media in the Digital Age

Which theoretical concept is most relevant to the study of LGBTQ communities?

Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci has written extensively on which theoretical concept?

A fundamental tension, according to Freud, stems from the instinctive desire of the individual for freedom that conflicts with civilization's inherent need for order imposed through __________.

Describe the challenges of cybersecurity in the contemporary media landscape, providing examples of threats to national security.

Contemporary __________ that allows authors to self-publish and sell their works can disempower companies that have traditionally controlled these processes.

Which theory addresses situations where criticism of governmental policies is encouraged and the import and export of media messages across national borders unrestricted?

Which of the following Asian countries blocks citizens' access to a wide range of websites and has a history of presenting difficult ethical choices for media organizations that, like Google and Yahoo, have elected to do business there?

Emerging in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Europe, the __________ was a new societal class that recognized the differing economic and political interests of business, government, and citizens.

What kinds of restrictions, and punishments for failing to respect restrictions, do authoritarian governments impose on the mass media in their respective countries?

Advances in digital technology since the 1970s have altered the debate about intercultural communication, regional coexistence, and the relative __________ of the developed world.

How much has Internet penetration in Asia grown since the year 2000?

In the mid 1970s, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) led a global examination of __________ around the world.

A problem with local programming in countries without the resources for lavish productions is that such programming __________.

In January 2015, the editorial offices of which French magazine were attacked by terrorists angry about a cartoon that satirized the Islamic prophet Muhammad?

Which theory of international mass communication can be described as the oldest system, extending back to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England?

French political historian Alexis de Tocqueville referred to a situation in which governmental laws and policies benefit the majority of individuals in a community without concern for the welfare or rights of minority groups and individuals as _________.

Cyberterrorism operates on a global level. For example, one of the suspects in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings had allegedly accessed materials from which organization?

Media convergence continues to bring people and countries closer together and in doing so produces new challenges, such as those related to __________.

Canadian legislation requires that __________ percent of the content on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the national public radio and television broadcaster, be Canadian content.

Who is Edward Snowden, and what questions did his controversial activities raise in an era defined by both digital communications and international terrorism?