Global Communication & Culture
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TOPICS-ISSUES-DISCUSSIONS:

Exam-2 Review Guide

FEARS + Happiness Data

►SCREENING:(GLOBAL HAPPINESS?) Why Finland and Denmark are the Happiest in the World (CNBC)

STUDY GUIDE:

►SCREENING: The Future of Cities (Oscar Boyson)

STUDY GUIDE:

(NATION BRANDING) It's More Fun in the Philippines

TOURISM - GLOBAL "MODERNIZATION" - PRESSURED "DEVELOPMENT"

The Murky Worlds of the Cruise Ship Industry (60 min Aus.)

The Rise and Fall of The Cruise Ship Industry (Business Insider)

DRAKE- TOURISM - TORONTO (Vice)

How Global Tourism is Destroying Cities

Gang Tours of Panama

GLOBAL TOURISM (United Nations Data)

TOP 25 TOURIST SELFIE SPOTS IN THE WORLD

Hot Spot Photo Sightmap

WHO DO YOU TRUST?

GLOBAL MEDIA MAPPING RESEARCH PROJECT

OVER-TOURISM (The Atlantic Idea Files)

OVER-TOURISM SCREENING GUIDE

Gringo Trails Film ( YouTube FREE with Ads)

LowRes version of film on the network O:drive Apps-->MJD-->Web Courses Global Comm Class Folder)

SCREENING GUIDE-Gringo Trails

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Netflix STREET FOOD ( Compare ARGUMENTS related to Food, Food Preparation, Identity and Culture)

PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY (Tim Marshall)

READING NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Lutz/Collins

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies a People (YouTube Link)

Reel Bad Arabs SCREENING GUIDE

Reel Bad Arabs on KANOPY via Durick Library Video Streaming Links

BLACK PINK: Light Up the Sky (Caroline Shuh - Netflix)

Black Pink Screening Guide Questions

Stockholm Syndrome (Dir. Jared Raab- Netflix)

Stockholm Syndrome Screening Guide Questions

EUROVISION: The POWER-POLITICS Behind the Wold's Largest Song Contest (CBC-International)

GIVE US THE MONEY! Music, Celebrity & Global Poverty

SCREENING GUIDE: GIVE US THE MONEY!

Cultural Imperialism in the 21st Century (James Petras)

What is "cultural imperialism" and what are its major goals?

What are the new features of cultural imperialism. How does it "desensitize" a public and how is language used or manipulated?

Who are the typical collaborators with cultural imperialism? What are its limits?

Disney and Your Perceptions about the World (Richard Gray)

McAmerica SOFT POWER: BRAND AMERICA SCREENING

McAMERICA Screening Guide

Accents, Place, and IDENTITY (Erik Singer, WIRED)

Screening Guide for WIRED MAGAZINE ACCENTS

Watch these 2 clips: Describe the distinctive types of "markers" which identify if a person is from their country/state:

70 People from Around the World Reveal How to Tell if Someone is From their Country (C.N.)

The Accents of the 50 U.S. States (C.N.)

Cultural Skins? What are our embedded but possibly invisible beliefs or practices which make up HOW we think and ACT (behaviors) related to each of the following?

Time?

Space?

Perceptual Filters?

Technologies?

Language and communication habits?

What would Smith and Lindner say about these clips?

FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 Hyundai

P&G Thank You Mom! 2018 Olympics Winter Games South Korea

Can you name ONE Country on a WORLD MAP?

Coke Small World Happines INDIA-PAKISTAN

Around the World in 5 min Time Lapse

Why saying HELLO to a stranger can benefit your overall health (Chatterjee: NPR)

Beyond Culteral Stereotypes (Lindner)

Armchair Globalists?

Local Culture(s)?

Deep Globality?

Is There a Global Culture? (Anthony Smith)

Global Culture?

Role of TV then and NOW?

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LECTURE/DISCUSSION LINKS

GLOBAL MEDIA: TOURISM, OVER-TOURISM, AND NATION BRANDING

MEDIA AND THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST: UAE

FILTER BUBBLES, MEDIA BIASES, "NORMING" and the FUTURE OF HUMANITY

FREEDOM, POWER, DEVELOPMENT AND HAPPINESS: THE POLITICS OF COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

GLOBAL MATERIALISM, FOOD, DIET, and HEALTH

MID-TERM EVALS

Barthes: Mythologies, Semiotics, Pop Culture and Soft Power

BBC World News Background

Material Worlds and What the World Eats

Global Culture? Nationalism, Ethnicity, Ethnosymbolism, and Identity

American News and Cultural Stereotyping

GLOBAL POP! Music, Fashion, Fusions, and Imperialism

NEWS-MAPS-MEDIA LINKS:

BBC World Service

BBC Basic Country Profiles

BBC Alerts

UNESCO Reports and Research Data

United Nations Statistical Databases

Reporters w/o Borders

DATA COMMONS WORLD RESEARCH

PEW RESEARCH CENTER

WORLD GALLUP SURVEY DATA

Feeling at peace with thoughts and feelings?

THE WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT 2023

ARCHIVE: THE WORLD HAPPINESS REPORTS 2012-23

FAQs: WORLD HAPPINESS

►Life Expectancy/Health

►Social Supports

►Generosity

►Levels of GDP

►Freedom(s)

►Corruption

GC2 Ref Library Site Link-Stacey Knight - Kristen Hindes

Example Sites:

Iceland

Uganda

Turkey

Tajikistan

Helpful Tutorials:

External Links in Adobe XD

WEB EXPORT in Adobe XD

DROP-DOWN MENUS in Adobe XD

SLIDE SHOW CAROUSELS in Adobe XD

Worldly Opportunities

 

READINGS/ARTICLES:

Putamayo World Music

Cumbancha World Music Jacob Edgar, Ethnomusicologist and Music Producer

NPR World Music

Costs of Making a Global Pop Song

Rihanna, "Man Down"

The HU

Steve'n'Seagulls

Zaz

BabyMetal

Rod & Gabby

Ceza (Holocaust)

Layatharanga (RWMF)

Richard Bona (Putamayo)

C.L.

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ElCondor pasa

Paul Simon & Lady Smith Black Mambazo

Shakira Waka Waka

Gipsy Kings - Bamboleo

Angelique Kidjo Batonga

 

 
 

 

 

 

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