scholarly journals Cultural Globalization and its Educational Effects on the Arab World and Ways of Facing them – A theoretical analytic study –: العولمة الثقافية وآثارها التربوية في الوطن العربي وسبل مواجهتها – دراسة نظرية تحليلية –

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (39) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Saleh Nsairat
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
English Language ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Analytic Method ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Cultural Globalization ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

The objective of this study was to investigate the educational effects of cultural globalization on the Arab world and ways to face them. The study adopted the deductive analytic method. The results showed that globalization is a state we live in different spheres of life, and manifestations of cultural globalization in its impact on the Arab cultural identity. It is considered as a cultural invasion unilaterally violated the privacy of Arab society and its principles. The English language became the first globally in terms of teaching in universities and widely used in most areas of life. The impact of cultural globalization seriously spread by the media, which is one of the pillars of cultural globalization on access to members of the community and influence them. The effects of educational cultural globalization in the Arab world is represented in the prevalence of consumer culture, individualism, selfishness, alienation, isolation from human society, the culture of the prevalence of sex, violence, pornography, and unrestricted freedom. Finally, the results showed that cultural globalization can be faced through the introduction of achievements of globalization and take advantage of them in the scientific and technological side, as well as the emphasis on the Arab cultural identity, instills the values ​​of loyalty and belonging to the Arab community. Many recommendations were presented such as offering the best efforts to benefit from the advantages of the cultural organization, adopting the technological and scientific choices and employing them in all fields and keep pace with the global technological and scientific revolution to give the Arab world its distinguished status among the countries of the world.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Inclusiveness, Affordability, Cultural Identity, and Ethical Orientation

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-68
Author(s):  
Reginald M.J. Oduor
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Ethical Orientation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Normative Considerations

Discussions on the impact and future directions of technology often proceed from an empirical point of view that seems to presume that the ebb and flow of technological developments is beyond the control of humankind, so that all that humanity can do is adjust to it. However, such an approach easily neglects several crucial normative considerations that could enhance the standing of individual human beings and whole communities as rational users of technology rather than its slaves. Besides, more often than not, technological products are designed in ways that neglect the needs of persons with disabilities, thereby perpetuating their exclusion from society. Consequently, this article proposes four normative considerations to guide the initiatives of African societies in their deployment of the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, namely, inclusiveness to meet the needs of all human beings, affordability to bridge the digital divide, respect for cultural identity to guard against cultural imperialism, and an ethical orientation as the over-arching guide to building a truly human society.

scholarly journals The Impact of Students’ Proficiency in English on Science Courses in a Foundation Year Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Mohammed Siddique Kadwa ◽  
Hamza Alshenqeeti
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
English Language ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Placement Test ◽  
First Year ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Scatter Plots ◽  
The Impact

English plays a crucial role in determining a student’s academic success and career path in Saudi Arabia. This is one of the reasons why all Saudi Arabian universities offer mandatory foundation year programs to university entrants. The assumption is that if a student has high proficiency levels in the English language, the student will be able to meet the challenges and demands of other science courses that are taught in the English language in the first-year program as well as the subsequent bachelor's programs. In order to prepare students for academic success, the trend at Saudi Arabian universities is to use US or UK publishers to provide the resources for its curriculum which is based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). This study investigates the relationship between Saudi Arabian university students’ English language levels and their performance in science courses in a foundation year program. Using Oxford University’s Q: Skills Placement Test, quantitative data is used to establish the students’ language levels according to the internationally accepted CEFR scales. The scores were then correlated with students’ overall averages in the science courses.  Data was gathered over a period of five academic years and statistical analyses were conducted using Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient formula and scatter plots. The findings and conclusions have serious implications for curriculum designers at Saudi Arabian universities as well as institutions of higher learning in the Middle East and the Arab world.  

New Media and Cultural Identity in the Global Society

2010 ◽  
pp. 795-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo-Ming Chen ◽  
Kai Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Global Society ◽  
Media Globalization ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rapid Transformation

New media has been the main force accelerating the development of globalizing society in the last two decades. With its digital, convergent, interactive, hypertextual, and virtual nature, new media has brought human interaction and society to a highly interconnected and complex level. The rapid transformation of human society due to the impact of the convergence of new media and globalization directly influences the construction and development of cultural identity. The emergence of new media and globalization not only breaks through the limit of the traditional time and space, but also may challenge the meaning of cultural identity. The purpose of this chapter is to unravel the intricate relationships between new media, globalization, and cultural identity through the process of definition, interpretation, and critical analysis.

scholarly journals Functions of English-Language Borrowings in Russian and Italian (on the Basis of Radio Discourse)

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
E. V. Volkova ◽  
A. A. Khustenko ◽  
E. A. Sherina
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Lexical Structure ◽  
The Media ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Dynamic Phenomena

The process of borrowing English words in Russian and Italian is discussed in the article. Particular attention is paid to the communicative-pragmatic analysis of the peculiarities of the use of Anglicisms in radio speeches. In the study of dynamic language processes, the media and communication have traditionally been the main sources of replenishment of the lexical structure of the language, including through foreign borrowing. The relevance of this work is determined both by the increased scientific interest in comprehension of active language processes in recent decades, and the linguists refer to comparative studies of dynamic phenomena in systems of different languages in order to identify similar or different processes in them, due to national linguistic specificity. A review of the scientific literature on various aspects of the study of borrowing in the analyzed languages is performed, the choice of material is substantiated, and research methods are described. The results of a comparative analysis of Russian and Italian radio speeches are presented. It is established that English-language borrowings have an extensive set of functions that are auxiliary in relation to the system-forming function of radio discourse - the impact on the target audience. It is proved that the coincidence of the main borrowing functions in the radio discourse of the analyzed countries is due to the strong position of the English language as a universal international means of communication.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of News and Analytical English-Language Media Texts About Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01137
Author(s):  
Yulia Yuzhakova ◽  
Liliya Polyakova ◽  
Elena Suvorova ◽  
Tatiana Emets
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Impact Function ◽  
The Media ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Linguistic Means

The article is devoted to the consideration of peculiarities of the English-language news and analytic media texts about Russia, which contribute to the formation of a certain attitude towards this country. It is noted that the scope of media texts in English prevails in the global information space, which cannot but affect the viewpoint of the “average” English speaking reader. The notion of ideological modality, which is often present in media texts about Russia, is considered. The media text compositional peculiarities and linguistic means are described in connection with the impact function implementation and the certain attitude towards Russia formation.

The impact of the media on the decision of parents in South Wales to accept measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) immunization

2014 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
pp. 550-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. WALSH ◽  
D. Rh. THOMAS ◽  
B. W. MASON ◽  
M. R. EVANS
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
Pressure Groups ◽  
Outbreak Area ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Health Response ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

SUMMARYA large measles outbreak occurred in South Wales in 2012/2013. The outbreak has been attributed to low take-up of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) immunization in the early 2000s. To understand better the factors that led to this outbreak we present the findings of a case-control study carried out in the outbreak area in 2001 to investigate parents' decision on whether to accept MMR. Parents who decided not to take-up MMR at the time were more likely to be older and better educated, more likely to report being influenced by newspapers [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 3·07, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1·62–5·80], television (aOR 3·30, 95% CI 1·70–6·43), the internet (aOR 7·23, 3·26–16·06) and vaccine pressure groups (aOR 5·20, 95% CI 2·22–12·16), and less likely to be influenced by a health visitor (aOR 0·30, 95% CI 0·16–0·57). In this area of Wales, daily English-language regional newspapers, UK news programmes and the internet appeared to have a powerful negative influence. We consider the relevance of these findings to the epidemiology of the outbreak and the subsequent public health response.

scholarly journals The Impact of Exposure to the Game of Thrones on Saudi Male Identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Merfat Alardawi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Male Adolescents ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Saudi Male ◽  
Game Of Thrones

The objective of this study is to examine the impact of Game of Thrones on the cultural identity of young Saudi males. The study also discovered the reasons why Saudi males watch American TV series (Game of Thrones) from a critical cultural perspective. This study has collected the data using an online survey conducted on 63 Saudi male adolescents with age ranging from 15 to 25 years who regularly watched Game of Thrones. The results show that the cultural identities of Saudi males are not negatively impacted because there are only limited viewers of this American drama series. The result reveal that 81.0% participants have watched Game of Thrones “alone” but only for having fun, learning a new culture and passing time. The relationship between age, education with respect to time spent on watching Game of Thrones and respective opinions are statistically significant. The study concluded that learning English language, acting like characters of the drama series and watching their favorite actors and actresses are the main motives of watching this TV series.

scholarly journals The Impact of Students’ Proficiency in English on Science Courses in a Foundation Year Program

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamza Alshenqeeti
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
English Language ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Placement Test ◽  
First Year ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
Scatter Plots ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

English plays a crucial role in determining a student’s academic success and career path in Saudi Arabia. This is one of the reasons why Saudi universities offer mandatory foundation year programs to university entrants. The assumption is that if a student has high proficiency levels in the English language, the student will be able to meet the challenges and demands of other science courses that are taught in the English language in the first-year program as well as the subsequent bachelor's programs. In order to prepare students for academic success, the tendency at most Saudi universities is to use international, mostly US or UK, publishers to provide the resources for its curriculum which is based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) as a standard for designating language ability. This study investigates the relationship between university students’ English language levels and their performance in science courses in a foundation year program at a Saudi university. Using Oxford University’s Q: Skills Placement Test, quantitative data is used to establish the students’ language levels according to the internationally accepted CEFR scales. The scores were then correlated with students’ overall averages in the science courses. Data was gathered over a period of five academic years and statistical analyses were conducted using Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient formula and scatter plots. The findings and conclusions have fundamental implications for curriculum designers at universities in Saudi Arabia as well as institutions of higher education in the Middle East and the Arab world.

scholarly journals General and substantive theories of the media and audiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 149-160
Author(s):  
Vladimir Argudo Palomeque
Keyword(s):  
Cell Phone ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cultural Globalization ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technological Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
Asking Questions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
Life Work

The use of new technologies as instruments of rapprochement between the public and the radio gives us a meaning of the power that the media have to announce what happens daily in society, applying techniques that allow them to be in the place where the events take place. facts and transmit them as they are, from the journalist's perception that allows him to get closer to the truth and why get closer to the truth, because the journalist must remember that one of the rules that govern this activity is the fact of asking and asking questions until to have the information that is needed and not to believe any version that the source expresses, and especially because doubt is the essence of journalism. Public participation in the media is a phenomenon that has emerged and has been promoted in recent years in Cuenca. Now not only with the use of the conventional telephone but with the application of technology such as: Internet, cell phone messages, emails and chats that have made the newscasts the most popular genre by audiences. This construction motivates the investigation of theories that support this position. In this context, we currently live in a technological culture that advances day by day and that marks in a matter of months a rapid obsolescence of much knowledge and the emergence of others. The impact of this culture is immense since it produces continuous transformations in economic, social and cultural globalization, and affects practically all aspects of personal life: work, commerce, bureaucratic management, leisure and education. For these reasons, technology urgently requires learning to live with it and authorize its undoubted benefits.

The Impact of Children’s You Tube Videos on English Language Socialization and Acquisition in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Layli Hamida ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Socialization ◽  
English Language Development ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Media ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
The Impact

This study aims at describing how the use of English on youtube videos play a significant role in the socialization and acquisition of the language for children in Indonesia. It particularly focuses on the depiction of how the media serve a platform for children’s English language development and socialization and whether parents or other adults’ accommodation reinforces or counteracts the language. Ethnographic interviews were conducted on five middle class parents with children of 3-5 years of age so as to collect information on children and parents’ everyday practices with the media. The findings suggest that parents’ beliefs and ideologies on foreign language socialization as well as their English proficiency lead to their primary support for English. Their everyday media consumption and communication practices with children show how arenas provided by parents have turned into an assumed form of scaffolding in the way that children reflect on the language collected from the media. The research indicates that global practices of English on the internet intersect with local practices of language socialization.

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