GLOBAL COMMUNICATION & CULTURE(S)
Course Links-Resources-Readings-Screenings-Worldly Opportunities
Daily/Weekly TOPICS-ISSUES-DISCUSSIONS: LECTURE/DISCUSSION LINKS WORLD NEWS-MAPS-MEDIA LINKS SCREENINGS-AUDIO-DESIGN: GC-2 Syllabus Link SCREENINGS/READINGS/ANNOUNCEMENTS:
►GLOBAL RESEARCH PHASE#1 DUE IN PDF FORM THURSDAY | GC-2 CLASS CLOUD FOLDER
►But I thought AI Toys for Children would always be safe...and educational
►Feeling at peace with thoughts and feelings?
►American Happiness in Iceland: MAKE IT!
►American Happiness in Denmark: MAKE IT!
►What are PEOPLE MOST PROUD of ABOUT THEIR COUNTRY? (PRC INTERNATIONAL)
►DENMARK RECALIBRATES DIGITAL LEARNING IN SCHOOLS (FRANCE 24)
►MRI SCANS NOW SHOW MEMORY LOSS AND BRAIN DAMAGE FROM SCREEN USE (AUS 10 NEWS)
►I wonder what this link is to?
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►25TH ANNIVERSARY GLOBAL EYES STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHY and WRITING CEREMONY (Durrick Library Beethoven's Space 3rd Floor)
You're the Judge:
Top TWO IMAGES and WHY
Top Written Caption and WHY
People's choice vote
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►VIDEO: EXCITED INTELLIGENT RATS in The RAT MOBILE
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Readings:
►CRAZY LIKE US: THE GLOBALIZATION OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHE- Ethan Watters (ReadingPDF)►Author's INTRO PERSPECTIVES/ARGUMENTS?
MAJOR/minor arguments on the following:
►Hong Kong
►ZanzibarShort 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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Reading:
►PARENTING WITHOUT BORDERS - Gross-Loh (ReadingPDF)►Author's INTRO PERSPECTIVES/ARGUMENTS?
MAJOR/minor arguments on the following:
►SLEEP TIME?
►STUFF - BUY, BUY BABY?
►FOOD RULES?
SCREENING:
►SCHOOL/EDUCATION AND HAPPINESS? FINLAND (ABC)
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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?
Screening:►(GLOBAL HAPPINESS?) Why Finland and Denmark are the Happiest in the World (CNBC)
►MAJOR-minor arguments on what make Finland and Denmark so different
►IMPORTANT TERMS/Concepts - Variables
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►Vermont Intercollegiate Film Showcase (VIFS-MARCH 31st Deadline)
►Onion River Review (Fri 2/20 deadline)
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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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►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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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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►Stockholm Syndrome (EPISODE 3 - THIS IS POP SERIES | Dir. Jared Raab- Netflix)
►BLACK PINK: Light Up the Sky (Caroline Shuh - Netflix)
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►EC#1: GLOBAL COMPETENCY CAREER READINESS MONDAY 7PM VIRTUAL
►MEDIA EVENTS and Beyond (Katz/Dayan)
►SOFT POWER DIGITAL FILES SAVE INTO O:DRIVE CLASS FOLDER
O:\Apps\Media Studies Digital Arts\webcourses\2026 GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS-CULTURE
►THEATERS OF WAR: HOLLYWOOD-CIA-PENTAGON MEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION (VIEW OFF of KANOPY)
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►In the broader spheres of SOFT POWER INFLUENCE, WHO, WHAT, or WHERE shows up often/frequently in your searches in what is "IN" or is being prioritized as "TOP-LINE TRENDING/AGENDA SETTING" with your browser cache/algorithms at work?
►What PERSON/PEOPLE have achieved ICONIC, MYTHIC, perhaps even "GOD-LIKE" STATUS for 2025/26? How have they been placed on a MEDIA PEDESTAL REPEATEDLY? WHAT what semiotic agendas or stories have been connected and/or intertwined to their ICONIC/GOD STATUS?
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►DATA SET ANALYSIS: 2026 GC-2 ETHNICITY-CULTURE-CODES/SKINS + TRAVELS?
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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, branding, and/or soft-power?
►In 2026 what or who specifically are the BIG-5 in terms of cultural imperialism? How can you tell?
►HOW ARE YOU A VICTIM OF CULTURAL IMPERIALISM?
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►YOU CAN'T ASK THAT!? (Australian Broadcasting Corp on NETFLIX) - EPISODES: Indigenous, Refugees, Muslims
Write-up = MAJOR and minor ARGUMENTS or "TAKE HOMES" from 3 different EPISODES: Indigenous, Refugees, Muslims
►THE WORLD? 5yr old's can do it (Ellen)
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►PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY (Tim Marshall)
►Accents, Place, and IDENTITY (Erik Singer, WIRED)
Watch these 2 clips: Describe some of the MOST distinctive types of "markers" or "cultural codes 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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►FARM PORCH POLITICS (Lucas Farrell-7-Days)
►Placere and Phatic Communion?
►The Space Between?
►Saying HELLO to Strangers (Chatterjee: NPR)
►U.S To Exit from 66 International Organizations (Associated Press)
►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 (2026)?
LECTURE/DISCUSSION LINKS
►MEDIA LITERACY, TECH FLUENCY, PRODUCTION SKILLSETS and ORGANIZATIONAL PEOPLE SKILLS 2026
►The Global Attention Economy and Surveillance Capitalism
►MEDIA LITERACY and A NATION'S HEALTH/HAPPINESS? A Dynamic and Complex Set of Development Variables
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1.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)
3.SOFT POWER and the MEDIA MANUFACTURING OF GODS, ICONS, AND MODERN MYTHOLOGIES
4.PERSUASION, PROPAGANDA, FADS and YOUR CHILDHOOD
5. PSEUDO-EVENTS-MEDIA EVENTS-GLOBAL SPECTACLES
7. NEWS BIAS, IDEOLOGY, AND STEREOTYPING (and you never knew it was happening)
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RESEARCH LINKS:
►GLOBAL RESEARCH COMPARISON PROJECT: HEALTH, HAPPINESS, AND QUALITY OF LIFE - HHQ
►PRC INTERNATIONAL | PEW RESEARCH CENTER
►UNESCO Reports and Research Data
►United Nations Statistical Databases
►THE WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT 2025
►LifeExpectancy/Health
►Social Supports
►Generosity
►Levels of GDP
►Freedom(s)
►Corruption►GC2 Ref Library Site Link- Kristen Hindes
Example Sites:
EXTRA-CREDIT Options:Research-Screenings+Analyses
►GLOBAL TV EXTRA-CREDIT - Screening + Analysis
►Understanding the World and Ourselves through Stuff, Home, and the Foods that Fuel Us
WORLDLY OPPORTUNITIES
►Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour at the Flynn Feb 6 & 7 (Tickets)
►The Vermont Penguin Plunge (Vermont Special Olympics)
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)
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