this?5 Address the two questions presented in this chapter: Will the Internet encourage the worldwide dominance of English, or will native language use on the Internet weaken the dominance of English?
6 What could justify a nation censoring the Internet and social media?
Key Terms
Channel25
Co-culture14
Communication19
Confucianism20
Context25
Counterculture17
Cultural identity11
Culture11
Decoding25
Encoding24
Ethnic identity13
Ethnicity10
Feedback25
Hero11
Honorific22
Message24
Microculture18
Myth11
Noise25
Race8
Receiver25
Receiver response25
Reference group18
Ritual11
Social class7
Source24
Subculture13
Subgroup17
Symbol11
Tribal sovereignty16
Value11
Note
1. Recently, BCE (before the common era or current era) and CE (common era or current era) have been used to avoid the more culturally limited BC (before Christ) and AD (anno Domini, in the year of the Lord).
Descriptions of Images and Figures
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The top multiple-choice questions seen are replicated below:
Is this person a citizen of the United States?
Yes, born in the United States.
Yes, born in Puerto Rice, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or Northern Marianas.
Yes, born abroad of U.S. citizen parent or parents.
Yes, U.S. citizen by naturalization – print year of naturalization (arrow pointing to the row of four blank boxes below).
No, not a U.S. citizen.
What is this person's age and what is this person's date of birth?
[text in italics] For babies less than 1 year old, do not write the age in months. Write 0 as the age.
Age on April 1, 2020
[four blank boxes with the word year next to it].
Print numbers in boxes.
Month
[two blank boxes below].
Day
[two blank boxes below].
Year of Birth
[four blank boxes below].
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The seven of the ten components of communication are represented as boxes in the following flow with an arrow from one leading to the next components on the list below: Source; Encoding; Message; Channel; Receiver; Decoding; Receiver response. An arrow from receiver response points back to source, through the word, feedback. A box labeled noise is seen above the box labeled channel, with an arrow pointing from noise to channel. Two large parentheses labeled context are seen encompassing the flow, on either side.
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There are two grouped horizontal bar graphs in this figure. The first bar graph is titled, A. Landline and mobile phones in use, and the second one is titled, B. Landline and mobile phones in use, percentage penetration.
In the first bar graph, the number in millions are plotted on the x axis and the values on this axis range from 0 to 1,400, in intervals of 200-million. The y axis shows the following countries from the bottom to top: China, United States, Japan, Brazil, Russia, India and Indonesia.
The landlines as well as mobile phones in use in all these countries are shown on this bar graph and these numbers (in million), are tabulated below:
Country; Number of landlines in use (in million); Number of mobile phones in use (in million). China; 230.00; 1,305.74. United States; 121.99; 382.31. Japan; 63.63; 158.59. Brazil; 43.68; 257.81. Russia; 36.52; 227.29. India; 25.52; 1,011.05. Indonesia; 22.39; 338.43.
In the second bar graph, the percentage penetration is plotted on the x axis and the values on this axis range from 0 to 180%, in intervals of 20%. The y axis shows the following countries from the bottom to top: Japan, United States, Russia, Brazil. China. Indonesia and India.
The percentage penetration of the landlines as well as mobile phones, in all these countries are shown on this bar graph and these percentages, are tabulated below:
Country; Percentage penetration of landlines; Percentage penetration of mobile phones. Japan; 50.2%; 125.2%. United States; 37.7%; 118.0%. Russia; 25.7%; 159.7%. Brazil; 21.2%; 125.3%. China; 16.8%; 95.1%. Indonesia; 8.7%; 131.0%. India; 2.0%; 79.8%.
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This grouped bar graph shows the number of internet users as well as the number of Facebook users across countries as well as these numbers as the percentage penetration of the population of these countries.
The x axis shows the percentage penetration and the values on this axis range from 0 to 100%, in intervals of 20%. The y axis shows the following countries from bottom to top: India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Indonesia, China, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Japan and The United States.
The numbers and percentages seen in this graph are tabulated below:
Country; Number of internet
