The Contemporary World

Phones and television are considered the most important media influencing globalization.

• True

• False

Global Media Culture allows the diffusion of diverse cultures by showcasing different cultural practices.

• True

• False

Printing press is humankind’s principal technology for collecting, manipulating, storing, retrieving, communicating and disseminating information.

• True

• False

The change in popular music is the outcome of globalization.

• True

• False

Our daily life is revolutionized by digital media.

• True

• False

Johannes Gutenberg developed script in the 15th century.

• True

• False

Mesoamerica is one of the places where writing appears to have developed independently.

• True

• False

In the 20th century, the only available mass media in remote villages was the telegraph.

• True

• False

The printing press changed the very nature of knowledge as it preserved knowledge.

• True

• False

Without language there would be no globalization; and vice versa, without globalization there would be no world languages.

• True

• False