Self-study
P1
Specialists in international communications almost unanimously assert that the broadcasting in developing nations of television programs produced by industrialized countries amounts to cultural imperialism: the phenomenon of one culture's productions overwhelming another's, to the detriment of the flourishing of the latter. ███
Other perspective ·
Showing TV programs from industrialized countries to developing nations is cultural imperialism
Assumption of other perspective ·
Imported TV shows always dominate over domestic ones, and are always harmful to domestic culture
Author's critique ·
Other perspective is based on little or no research
Concession and clarification ·
Dominance is a risk, but assumption that imported always dominates is unsupported or anti-supported
Support for author ·
Imported programs rarely harm domestic ones, and aren't always more popular
P2
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Author's perspective ·
Role of TV in developing nations is different from what others think
One study of viewing habits showed popularity of certain domestic productions.
P3
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Recommendation ·
Need to use approach of anthropologist to study impact of external cultural influences
First question to examine ·
What's best model for relationship between imported and domestic productions?
It's not dominance. Could it be that domestic absorbs imported? Or that domestic and imported fuse only under certain conditions?
P4
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Second question to examine ·
How do individual viewers behave?
Need to take into account diversity of responses and experiences.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Problem-analysis
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The only two disciplines discussed in the passage are comms specialists and anthropologists, but the author doesn’t suggest that either one of those disciplines has two hypotheses. Rather, the author critiques one hypothesis of comms specialists, and she doesn’t present any hypotheses of anthropologists.
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The author doesn’t discredit any evidence offered by the comms specialists. Rather, she points out that they have
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The purpose of the passage is to argue that comms specialists should adopt a similar methodology to what anthropologists use, in order to solve the problem of how to properly understand the impact that imported media have on people.
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The author presents weaknesses in only the comms specialists’ methodology. She then presents the strengths of an anthropology-like methodology.
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The only two disciplines discussed in the passage are comms specialists and anthropologists. But the author never presents the overall views of anthropologists as a discipline on any issue. She just references a single anthropological study. (B) also ignores a key part of the author’s purpose: to propose recommendations, which are the focus of P3 and P4.