Global Communication & Culture
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Daily/Weekly TOPICS-ISSUES-DISCUSSIONS: LECTURE/DISCUSSION LINKS WORLD NEWS-MAPS-MEDIA LINKS SCREENINGS-AUDIO-DESIGN: GC-2 Syllabus Link SCREENINGS/READINGS/ANNOUNCEMENTS:
►EXTRA CREDIT#1 - WEEK WITHOUT PHONE and SOCIAL MEDIA...but with FOREST BATHING/SWIMMING
►EXTRA CREDIT#2: SERIOUSLY COOL GLOBAL STREAMING TV COMPARISONS
►Basic Plants, Animals, Foods...Oh my! + To be CHIPPED...or not? That is the QUESTION.
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►Why is OK to NOT answer text messages right away (NPR)
►Celebration Florida - Disney Development Corporation
►GIFT 2025 Grannies International Futbol Tournament
►Deadlifting into your 90s (New Yorker Docs)
►Setting Track & Field Records at 90 (VTDigger)
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►SCREENING: The Future of Cities (Oscar Boyson)
►SCREENING: ZIPLINE DRONE DELIVERY RWANDA (Mark Rober)
►EXAM#2: TUESDAY, APRIL 29TH
►DMC-DMK SENIOR PRESENTATIONS WED APRIL 25TH 1-5 DION CTR ROY ROOM
►Adrian Languasco - 52 years SMC Languages Professor and Global Citizen of Health and Happiness
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Short Screenings:
►HAPPINESS, Food, Drink, Hill Work Outs, and Aging (The Blue Zones)
►Quick Read: Happy RAT DRIVERS! Learning New Things and Happiness!
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Important Current Events:
►Japan's Remote Control Plumbing
►MEDIA LITERACY BASIC SKILLS: FILM/TV + SOCIAL MEDIA
►Most Americans Say That They Want to Read more books...(NPR)
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Reading/Screening:
►THE EUROPEAN DREAM: RIFKIN►(GLOBAL HAPPINESS?)
Reading/Screening:
►THE EUROPEAN DREAM: RIFKIN►(GLOBAL HAPPINESS?) Why Finland and Denmark are the Happiest in the World (CNBC)
►SCHOOL/EDUCATION AND HAPPINESS? FINLAND (ABC)
►Fundamental "happiness" criteria
►Work/Life/Money?
►Words/Ideas?
►Golden Mean?
►Vacation-Summer-Time off?
►EDUCATION-SCHOOL Standards Finland: What's different?
►FOOD APARTHEID in the UNITED STATES
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Important Current Events:
►German Military Increase
►Nielsen Ratings by Distributor 2025 FEB
►US Tourism Boycott/DeclineScreenings:
►American Happiness in Iceland: MAKE IT!►American Happiness in Denmark: MAKE IT!
Reading:
►GLOBAL HAPPINESS-BLISS-GEOGRAPHY (ReadingPDF)►Author's Perspective-Conundrum + Mission?
►WDH? Dr Rut Veenhoven data findings?
►New Arguments about Happiness related toIncome-Diversity-Weather-tolerance?
►Bhutanese Happiness?
----------------------------►MEDIA EVENTS and Beyond (Katz/Dayan V2)
►GIVE US THE MONEY! Music, Celebrity & Global Poverty
►BLACK PINK: Light Up the Sky (Caroline Shuh - Netflix)
►Stockholm Syndrome (EPISODE 3 - THIS IS POP SERIES | Dir. Jared Raab- Netflix)
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THE POWER OF PLACE - Harm DeBlij
►Arguments on the following:
►Flat vs. Rugged/Rough Landscape
►Apartheid in S.A. vs. True Equality
►Core vs. Barricades vs. Periphery
►Globals vs. Mobals vs. Locals --YOU?.
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►Netflix STREET FOOD ( Compare ARGUMENTS from 2 different episodes related to Food, Food Preparation, Identity and Culture)
►EXTRA CREDIT OPTION: Visit, Dine, Photograph, Talk to Owner/Worker, and Analyze the Food/Culinary Experience at an Non-Western Restaurant; Due:?
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►GLOBAL VOICE(S) & CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES RESEARCH and INTERVIEW PROJECT
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►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
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IS LEARNING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE or THE CODES OF ETHNICITY STRANGELY DIFFICULT and/or FUNNY? SEE what you think.
Watch these for Thursday and try not to laugh...:
►ISMO Learning Engish is Difficult
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►Disney and Your Perceptions about the World (Richard Gray)
►McAmerica SOFT POWER: BRAND AMERICA SCREENING
►Cultural Imperialism in the 21st Century (James Petras)
►What is "cultural imperialism" and what are its major goals?
►How are media, marketing, advertising, and our communication technologies part --if not central-- to cultural imperialism? Give two examples.
►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?
►Is there any difference between cultural imperialism and branding?
►In 2026 what or who specifically are the BIG-5 in terms of cultural imperialism?
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►Accents, Place, and IDENTITY (Erik Singer, WIRED)
Watch these 2 clips: Describe some of the MOST distinctive types of "markers" or "cultural skins" 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.)
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►YOU CAN'T ASK THAT!? (Australian Broadcasting Corp on NETFLIX) - EPISODES: Indigenous, Refugees, Muslims
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►Is There a Global Culture? (Anthony Smith INTERMEDIA)
►Global Culture? What is (or isn't) it???
►Ideal vs. "created" or "manufactured"?
►Role of TV (visual media) then and NOW (2025)?
►Saying HELLO to Strangers (Chatterjee: NPR)
►SAFE COUNTRIES FOR TRAVEL (Galloway BBC)
►GPS, Spatial Memory and Brain Health (Andrei ZME)
►Spatial Navigation and Brain Health (Rapaport E-HEALTH)
►Beyond Culteral Stereotypes (Lindner-FORBES)
►Armchair Globalists?
►Local Culture(s)?
►Deep Globality?
EXAM#2: TUESDAY, APRIL 29TH
START HERE►NGOs & INGOS: Some Basics
1. INGOs: DEVELOPMENT-FREEDOM-ACCESS-AID-MEDIA-TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
2. European Dream(s) - Health, Happiness, Social Well-Being
3. American Magazines: Implicit Agendas?
4. Material Worlds - Consumption - Environmental Sustainability- Happiness?
5. What the World EATS (or Doesn't), MEDIA, and Global HEALTH INDICATORS
6. The POWER OF PLACE - The GEOPOLITICS of Where You Live
7. The ATTENTION ECONOMY - PSEUDO-EVENTS-MEDIA EVENTS-GLOBAL SPECTACLES
8. TRIBALISM, CLANS, MOBS, CROWDS, and FANDOM - The Social Psychology of 21st Century Media
9. Global Literacy, Media Literacy, FREEDOM, and QUALITY INFORMATION
10. BHUTAN - GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS (GNH) as a NATIONAL POLICY
11. GLOBAL POP - CELEBRITY - SIMULACRA - MUSIC - FUSIONS - YOUTH CULTURES
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●EXAM#1 STUDY GUIDE
►PERSUASION, PROPAGANDA, INFORMATION, STEREOTYPING and YOUR "FILTERS"
►SOFT POWER and the MEDIA MANUFACTURING OF GODS, ICONS, AND MODERN MYTHOLOGIES
►WORLD NEWS? Covering the World 24-7-365 isn't So Easy: Some Approaches and Pitfalls
►Survey Results DATA ANALYSIS SET-1: Put on your Sociological Spectacles - Is this YOU? Info Filters-Trust-Priorities-Travel
►How Many Countries are there REALLY in the World?
►Short Screening Sadness: Can you name ONE Country on a WORLD MAP?
►Short Screening: And Yet...THE WORLD? 5yr old's can do it (Ellen)
►INTO THE FRAY: INTERNATIONAL NGOS RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT#2
►INTERNATIONAL NGO DIRECTORY
►UN INTERNATIONAL NGO DIRECTORY
●Example (LA mobile phone)
●LINK (AD E~Zine)
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►GLOBAL VOICE(S) & CONVERSATIONS
----------------------------MAP-GEOGRPHY LINKS:
►And then there's this method...
►Hooked on Mneumonics(YouTube)
►www.shepard world map quizzes
►THE WORLD? 5yr old's can do it (Ellen)
WORLDLY OPPORTUNITIES
►FULBRIGHT INTERNATIONAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS SEPT 2025
►Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour at the Flynn Feb 7 & 8 (Tickets)
►The Vermont Penguin Plunge (Vermont Special Olympics)
►Lake Champlain Pond Hockey Classic (Boat Launch Malletts Bay - Across from Mazza's Store)
►FULBRIGHT INTERNATIONAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS SEPT 2025
►Global Careers - Washington DC Application Due Jan 31st 2025 - application
►Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Flynn Center Feb 7 or 8 (7pm) 2025 TICKETS
►MLK EVENT-11:00-11:50 Roy Room Dion Conversation with International Students: Perspectives of Life on Campus and in an Uncertain World - IGE.
►MLK EVENT-2: WEDNESDAY, JAN. 22, 4 P.M. McCarthy Arts Center // Radical Empathy: Taking Action/Bridging Divides with Terri E. Givens, PhD, Professor of Political Science
►CBC
►NPR
MUSIC AND GLOBALIZATION
►MUSIC-CULTURE-INTERPRETIVE COMMUNITIES: Survey Results DATA ANALYSIS SET-2
●Cumbancha World Music Jacob Edgar, Ethnomusicologist and Music Producer
►Rihanna, "Man Down" (Barbados))
►Costs of Making a Global Pop Song
►The HU (Mongolia)
►Steve'n'Seagulls (Finland)
►Zaz(France)
►BEST DANCE MOVES ACROSS CULTURES(Ed)
►Rod & Gabby(Mexico City via Spain via Ireland via NYC)
►BabyMetal(Japan)
►An Aussie Takes 2 American Songs to the next level (Tommy Emmanuel Guitar Boogie + Amazing Grace)
►Ceza (Holocaust)(Turkey)
►Richard Bona (Cameroon--Cuba)
►C.L.(South Korea)
►Fly Me to the Moon(China)
►Layatharanga (Borneo)
►Slum Dog Millionaire Ending Credits Dance (India)
►Somebody's... Got Some Serious Dance Moves(Netherlands)
►Sometimes You Just need to take the TUBA, Trombone, Sax, or French Horn Downtown to be heard...
►There MUST be a RIFT in the FORCE(BGT)
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What would Smith and Lindner say about these clips?
►P&G Thank You Mom! 2018 Olympics Winter Games South Korea
►FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 Hyundai
►Coke Small World Happines INDIA-PAKISTAN
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