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✔✔Parabolic Antenna - ✔✔A round dish. Parabola- mathematic for "circle"
✔✔Uplink - ✔✔The satellite connection from the ground station to the satellite (Up to
the satellite).
✔✔Downlink - ✔✔A ground station that receives a relayed signal from a communication
satellite (Down to the Earth).
✔✔Satellite Footprints - ✔✔Area of coverage of specific satellite systems (the photo on
Blackboard)
✔✔GPS - ✔✔Global Positioning System: A system that determines the precise position
of something on Earth through a series of satellites, tracking stations, and receivers.
✔✔Regional Satellite Systems - ✔✔-Eutel Sat (Europe)
-Arab Sat (Middle East)
-Rascom (Africa)
✔✔1964 Olympic Games - ✔✔The Syncom III Satellite carried the first major
international event (the opening ceremony of the 1964 Olympic games in Tokyo) of the
satellite age.
✔✔Apollo 11 Moon Landing (1969) - ✔✔-NASA lands Americans on the moon.
-See the Earth as a fragile "blue marble" in space
-used a combination of technologies (satellites) to ensure live TV coverage from the
moon
-NASA's space exploration and the global consciousness
-The emptiness of space and no life around us
✔✔Global village - ✔✔Term coined by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore: Refers to
the "shrinking" of time and space as air travel and the electronic media have made it
easier for the people around the globe to communicate with one another
✔✔World Wide Web - ✔✔Created by Tim Berners-Lee: A system of linked pages,
programs, and files
✔✔HTTP - ✔✔Hypertext Transfer Protocol
✔✔The Internet - ✔✔Network of computer networks transferring information in self-
contained packets through packet-switching & TCP/IP (method of transmission)
, ✔✔Cultural Proximity - ✔✔The cultural closeness of linguistic proximity (closeness of
language)
✔✔Canada Broadcasts - ✔✔-Canadian International Broadcasting (CBC)
-Société Radio-Canada
✔✔Canada - ✔✔-Native American name meaning "over there"
-British-style constitutional monarchy whose current monarch is King Charles III
-French and English-speaking broadcasting (Radiodiffusion system)
✔✔Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - ✔✔A bill identifying human rights that
are guaranteed to everyone in Canada. A European-style "positive rights" system
✔✔Latin America Broadcasts - ✔✔-TV Azteca (Mexico)
-O Globo (Brazil)
✔✔O Globo - ✔✔-The largest Latin America media company based in Brazil
-Largest commercial TV network in Latin America
✔✔Cultural Imperialism - ✔✔the imposition by one usually politically or economically
dominant community of various aspects of its own culture onto another, non-dominant
community
✔✔Cultural appropriation - ✔✔the acknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the
customs, practices, etc. members of one people or society by another and typically
more dominant people or society for commercial gain.
✔✔Cuba - ✔✔-Closed communist dictatorship
-Independent journalist who dissent are jailed or are 'persuaded' to leave the country
-Disseminating 'enemy' propaganda is a crime
-Requires registration of computers, typewriters, faxes, cellphones and modems
✔✔Brazil - ✔✔-The largest country in Latin America
-Festival Nation-celebration of Carnaval
-The Amazon Rainforests are the "lungs" of the nation
-The only major country in Latin America that speaks Portuguese
✔✔Post-Production - ✔✔To distribute movies and TV programming across national
linguistic/cultural boundaries using Voice-overs, Lip synchronization, Movement sync,
and subtitles
✔✔Lip Synchronization - ✔✔matching translation to original image