Crossing Cultures: Revision_Lessons 1-7

McDonaldization has four characteristics. These are:

• efficiency

• control

• predictability

• proximity

• calculability

Globalization is based on systems of communication which means .....

• talking out loud

• the internet

• the media

TRUE or FALSE? Globalization connects peoples and countries.

• True

• False

TRUE or FALSE? Globalization causes loss of information.

• True

• False

The media consists of several different types of communications, such as:

• newspapers

• espionage

• magazines

• watches and clocks

• web-sites

What are broadsheets?

• large bed sheets

• large sails

• large newspapers

Two popular newspapers in Britain are ....

• The BBC

• The Sun

• Channel 5

• The Mirror

Yellow journalism is ....

• the sensationalism of news

• yellow items of news

• yellow news reporters

Which President took advantage of the changing media environment?

• Donald Trump

• George Washington

• John F. Kennedy

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

An "echo chamber" in social media means ...

• ideas and beliefs being reinforced through repetition, by adding new ideas

• ideas and beliefs being reinforced through repetition, without adding new ideas.

• ideas and beliefs being shouted by someone in a chamber

• ideas and beliefs being whispered by someone in a chamber