Exam 1: Global Communication: Background

Which of these is the longest running prime-time animated cartoon ever developed?

Radio and television industries in Latin America are characterized by:

Latin American media is characterized by the prevalence of:

Which of these nations have at one time withdrawn from UNESCO?

Which of these refers to the cultural, economic, political, social, and technical analysis of communication patterns and effects across and between nation-states?

The U.S. is a peripheral nation.

In the post-Cold War era, US embassies focused on trade and the expansion of US exports.

NWICO's ultimate goal was a restructured system of media and telecommunication priorities in order for Western nations to maintain influence over international media, information, economic, cultural, and political systems.

What are telenovelas?

Immanuel Wallerstein was the first foreign war correspondent

The first war correspondent emerged during:

Prior to 9/11, much of the literature on network television news focused on the preponderance of bad news.

What are the "Four eras of global colonialism"?

A defining characteristic of the peripheral zone is the agrarian nature of its economies.

Which of the following was central to exposing the Abu Ghraib scandal?

The phenomenon in which large numbers of foreign correspondents descend by the planeload on international scenes of conflict or natural disasters is referred to as what?

Name three of the five barriers to the development of media in Latin America, as outlined by Hughes & Lawson.

Latin American academics openly embraced North American media models.

The post-9/11 media environment was dominated by a great deal of sympathy for the position and activities of the Bush administration in the US media.

Latin American newspapers are still a substantially growing market.