How does the media in more industrialized or wealthy countries tend to frame stories such as climate change versus less industrialized or poorer countries?

GLOBAL COMMUNICATION QUESTIONS

1) According to Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, what is journalism’s first loyalty?

2) According to Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, name two others characteristics journalists must possess?

3) What is an inverted pyramid story?

4) What is the issue when the contents of a story are used from a pool?

5) What led to the demise of Al Jazeera America?

6) “Many democracies are not democracies at all.” Explain this statement.

7) Sierra Leone has a democratic structure but not a democracy. Provide evidence that makes this statement true.

8) Eighty percent of tourists come from 28 industrialized countries. What does this statistic tell us in terms of globalization?

9) Why don’t media outlets seem interested in shared cultural meanings?

10) It is too simplistic to simply say Western values lead to war and broad opposition. Explain this statement.

11) Name at least one commonality between African and Chinese cultures.

12) What is anthropomorphism?

13) Media present problems especially social problems in very specific terms and not in broader terms. What is the result of doing this?

14) What are cyber enthusiasts?

15) What are cyber skeptics?

16) Based on your reading of the Arab Spring article, are you a cyber enthusiast or cyber skeptic? Why?

17) Social media did not cause the Arab Spring. Explain why this is true or not true.

18) What role did social media play in the Arab Spring?

19) What is cultural homogenization?

20) What is cultural heterogenization?

21) Can culture be homogenized? Please give an example to support your answer.

22) Interactions of culture do not automatically lead to homogenization. Why?

23) According the Western Bias article, why is the term “media” problematic?

24) According to the Western bias article, why does terrorism in Europe cause more shock?

25) According the article and the class discussion, how has globalization affected the poultry farming industry in Ghana?

26) According to the article on Ghana, what was the role of early cell phone technology for small poultry famers?

27) How does the Western media set the tone for Africa being a “hopeless continent?”

28) How did Saudi Arabia approach its issues with Westernization of the culture in comparison with Iran?

29) Despite being in power for almost 4 decades, what about his policies eventually led to the revolution in Iran?

30) In 2008, why did the Saudi government ban the public walking of cats and dogs?

31) In 2015, compare media coverage of the Charlie Hebdo attacks versus the attacks by Boko Haram in Nigeria.

32) In the context of the Arab Spring, political events precede social media use. Explain this statement.

33) According to Al Jazeera, the Arab revolution was marked by the Middle East being forsaken by the West. In the contact of our discussions in class, how do we see this differing point of view to be valid?

34) Edgar Snow operated under the context of shard cultural meanings. Explain this statement.

35) How does the media in more industrialized or wealthy countries tend to frame stories such as climate change versus less industrialized or poorer countries?

36) Most news stories stop at a country’s borders. Please give one example that shows this statement to be true.