blog
an online journal or diary with new entries appearing as they are written, usually dealing with personal reflections or opinions
Often, blog entries are hyperlinked to other websites or blog entries.
Example: Blogger ( http://www.blogger.com/start)
blog
boycott
a program by a group of people who combine to stop buying certain products or supporting a certain company, organization, or group to protest its practices or as a way of forcing it to change its ways
For example, a group of consumers boycotted The Gap to protest its outsourcing of labour to sweatshops in the developing world.
Interestingly, the term derives from the name of Charles C. Boycott, a manager of an estate in Ireland owned by an absentee English landlord against whom non-violent persuasive tactics were used in 1880. After he evicted 11 tenants, people in the community isolated Boycott; his workers stopped work in the fields and stables as well as in his house. Local businessmen stopped trading with him, and even the postman refused to deliver his mail.
(adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott)
boycott
Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
a body of the Canadian government that regulates all Canadian broadcasting and telecommunication activities and enforces rules regarding Canadian content
Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission
Cancon
the name given to the cultural content legislation in Canada that requires a quota of "Canadian Content" on radio and television
Also, Cancon refers to cultural and creative content that is Canadian.
Cancon
cultural content legislation
national laws or policies designed to promote or preserve national culture
cultural content legislation
cultural imperialism
the practice of spreading the influence of one culture over others by means of physical and economic domination
This usually involves an assumption of cultural superiority (ethnocentrism).
cultural imperialism
cultural protectionism
the action(s) of a nation to protect its own culture and cultural industries such as television, newspapers, magazines, and music
Cultural protectionism
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diversification
The process by which people modify their behaviour to fit in with others.
diversification
ethnocentrism
The attitude or belief that one's own culture is superior to other cultures. Ethnocentrism may lead to acts of discrimination and racism causing harm to the members of other cultures.
ethnocentrism
language laws
national or local laws or policies designed to favour or discourage the use of one or more languages
language laws
media
The media is any form in which communication takes place.
The commonly used definition of the media is really of the mass media, or the media that are used to communicate with large numbers of people, usually at least a whole nation of people. This includes radio, television, newspapers and magazines, and the internet. The media is a powerful force in our globalizing world.
mass media
open-source
practices that promote free access to a product and the sources that went into developing it
The open-source movement is quite recent and came into being through software developers who believed in free access to ideas, software, communication, and interactive communities to produce better products.
The term is used to describe anything that has been developed and is free for use for the general public. This can include engineering solutions, images, and written materials. For example, Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), the free online encyclopedia, is open-source content that anyone can use and modify.
open source
stereotype
a preconceived and over-simplified idea of the characteristics of an individual or group
stereotype
values
general beliefs about what is right, moral, and desirable
values
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