Declaration of Human Rights 1948 - Answers -A declaration adopted by the United Nations to give rights
to every human.
-Based on the First Amendment
-Articles 18 & 19
-An 'instrument" that protects freedom of expression internationally
-Globalized American values
The First Amendment Guarantees: - Answers The Freedoms of
-Religion
-Speech
- The Press
- Peaceful Assembly
-The right to Petition the government
The Bill of Rights - Answers Charter of 'negative freedoms.' Says what the government CAN'T do.
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - Answers -the bill identifying human rights that are
guaranteed to everyone in Canada
-equivalent to the First Amendment
-European-style "positive" rights system, tells government what it CAN do
-everyone has the freedom of thought, belief, opinion, and expression
Congress - Answers Federal government, state/local government, state colleges, universities, and school
boards.
First Amendment - Answers "Press"- all the media in physical space and cyberspace
"Speech"- oral communication, symbolic speech and expressive conduct, including speech acts
Violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment
The Constitution is "elastic"- meaning it is adaptable
Diffusion - Answers ripples out from the center to the outer edge of the world
Counter-diffusion - Answers ripples from the outer edge to the center
, AGITPROP - Answers Russian propaganda technique "Agitation Propaganda"
Disinformation - Answers Comes from the Russian word "Dezinformatsiysa" meaning false information
deliberately spread to deceive people
Misinformation - Answers False information is (not deliberately) spread to mislead. Spread by mistake,
people don't know the information is false
Kompromat - Answers Damages reputation, spread lies about people's lives
Propaganda of the Deed - Answers -provocative actions designed solely to gain attention for ideas or
grievances
-ex. Russia's policy is that for every Russian soldier killed, they will take the same amount of victims.
Propaganda of Silence - Answers -Wanting everyone to be silent
-Where fear leads to silence
Digital Divide - Answers -the gap between those who have access to information and communications
technology and those who do not
-it exists between and within countries and regions of the world
Global Village - Answers - In 1968 Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore coined the term "global village."
- They envisioned instantaneous communication linking all peoples of the world with the help of
computers and satellites
Linguistic Capitalism - Answers -Databases with multiple languages available
-ex. Google, Wikipedia
Knowledge Capitalism - Answers -the commercial value of generating new ideas and converting them
into products and services that consumers want
-making money off of knowledge
Sexual Capitalism - Answers global commercial distribution of pornography in real space and cyberspace
Cultural Hybridity - Answers -the extent to which cultures are intermixed
-ex. James Cameron from Canada worked with a tribe to make a movie in the Amazon (Avatar)
Digital Capitalism - Answers -electronic commerce
-making money digitally