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UNCTAD |
United Nations Conference Trade and Development. Their role is to assist developing countries in participating in global trade and especially in being able to take advantage of it. UNCTAD is now reconstructed into a division dealing with Globalization and developing strategies for the least developed countries. |
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Cultural Imperialism |
large volume of media products flow from the West, especially the United States and so powerfully shape the cultures of other nations that they amount to a cultural form of domination. Values and images are embedded in the media products sold by Western Corporations. Why the media has been so successful is because most media projects have substantial budgets resulting in very slick and attractive production value. |
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Cultural Exception |
Introduced/ associated with France. This is where taxes on television channels, Internet providers and more go to subsidize French filmmakers and French television stations must air at least 40 percent French produced content. It is treating culture different from other commercial products. |
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NWICO |
New World Information and Communication Order. It connects the media and the study of media, to the geopolitical struggles between the American led “west” and the Soviet led “east”. It also industrialized the “north” and the “south”. It was not only to do with politics but also had a huge factor for a shift in international communication studies. |
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MacBride Commission |
Was a report by Sean McBride, it was to analyze communication problems in modern societies, particularly relating to mass media and news. Considering the emergence of new technologies, and to suggest a kind of communication order (New World Information and Communication Order) to diminish these problems to further peace and human development. |
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Global Digital Divide |
refers to the gap in access to information and communication technologies between the wealthy and the poor regions of the world. For and example more than ¾ of people in North America are internet users, only about 16% of the population in Africa has access to the internet. Only upper and middle class segments of many countries are able to afford regular access to global media products. |
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One Laptop per Child Campaign |
Was a campaign with an aim of providing school children in developing countries with their own specially designed $100 laptop. Many of the people were poor and struggling with other issues, and had little use for laptops. The designs for the laptops were originally supposed to be designed by hand cranks so they could be useable in places where there was no electricity. |
