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Chapter One
- How is identity impacted by globalization?
- What are the factors (key influences) that shape who you are?
- How do traditions, language and clothing help to express individual identity?
- What affect do collectives or groups have on identity?
- Why is language important to collective identities?
- How can our identities be connected with people in other countries (i.e. Coltan)
- What are the opportunities and challenges to increased global connections?
1. Identity
a. Individual & Collective
i. How do we express our identities collective and individual?
1. Look for ideas of clothing, traditions, language
2. Links between language and identity
a. “Language embodies a way society think”
2. Language
a. Jargon
b. Slang
c. Collective Identity & Context
i. How can language shape our identity
d. Challenges & Opportunities of making global connections
i. Language, traditions, values, etc.
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Chapter Two
List and describe four forces of globalization (trade, transportation, communication
technology and media)
How does globalization affect economies?
How are politics affected by globalization?
What affect can globalization have on the environment?
What are the social impacts of globalization?
How are homogenization, acculturation, accommodation and assimilation related to the
concept of globalization?
What are some examples of cultural revitalization?
What are the challenges to identity in a globalized world?
3. Forces of globalization
a. Trade
i. Transnational corporations
b. Transportation
i. Container shipping
c. Communication Technologies
i. Internet & World Wide Web
d. Media
i. Media Concentration & Media Convergence
1. Media concentration is the ‘concentration of ownership’ of forms
of media in the hands of a few large corporations
2. Media convergence is the technology available that integrates
many forms of media into one source of communication
technology.
ii. How do these forces make for a globalization world?
1. Look for terms such as interconnection, international, interaction
4. Dimensions of Globalization
a. Economic Globalization
i. Economies of scale
1. Savings that come from producing, using and buying things on a
large scale.
b. Political Globalization
i. Tariffs and taxes
ii. Conflict
iii. Involvement of International Political Organizations
c. Environmental Globalization
i. Biodiversity – reduction of biodiversity
ii. Pesticides and herbicides
iii. Deforestation – practices to facilitate economic growth
d. Social Globalization
i. Worker conditions
ii. Displacing of indigenous peoples
5. Challenges to Globalizations
a. Homogenization
b. Acculturation
c. Accommodation
d. Assimilation
e. Cultural Revitalization
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Chapter Three
How does improved communication technology affect or increase or choices?
What is meant by the digital divide? How can this be overcome?
How does media affect diversity? Is it promoted or challenged?
What does techno-isolation mean?
What is the effect that media has on world events? What effect do world events have on
your identity?
How can media affect or level of information or knowledge about the world (stories that
are told and stories that are not)
How does American media affect the world?
What are the other media influences on our culture?
6. Communication Technology and Choices
a. Networks
b. Digital Divide
c. Medium is the Message - Marshall McLuhan
i. The message is shaped by media chosen to deliver it or the media can be
just as important as the message itself.
1. A similar message can be seen differently on television as
compared to reading it in a newspaper.
7. Using Media and Technology in Affirming Identity
8. Diversity in Global Media
a. Media Concentration
b. Propaganda
c. Techno-Isolation
9. Media Affecting World Events
a. Perceptions on world events being influenced by media
i. September 11
ii. Untold stories
iii. Live 8
10. Media and Diversity
a. Universalization
b. Americanization
c. Hybridization
i. Cultural diversity beyond the American media
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Chapter Four
What role does language play in the life a person? Culture?
How does globalization challenge languages?
What is an endangered language? How do languages die?
What can be (should be?) done to protect an endangered language?
Why is English a dominant language?
How can individual cultures be promoted and protected?
What is cultural revitalization? What are the challenges to this and the opportunities of
this?
How do governments promote language and culture? Should governments promote
language and culture?
What role do international organizations have in promoting languages and cultures?
11. Challenge on language from globalization
a. Language identity
b. Endangered languages
c. Dominance of English
12. Government Promotion
a. UNESCO – role in language revitalization
i. Cultural diversity
b. Government role
i. Museums – Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
ii. Multiculturalism
iii. La Francophonie
iv. Assembly of First Nations and the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples