PT132.S3.P3.Q19

PrepTest 132 - Section 3 - Passage 3 - Question 19

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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
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Assumption of other perspective · Imported TV shows always dominate over domestic ones, and are always harmful to domestic culture
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Author's critique · Other perspective is based on little or no research
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Concession and clarification · Dominance is a risk, but assumption that imported always dominates is unsupported or anti-supported
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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
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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
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the viewing habits ███ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ███████

Not stated. The author does state in P4 that the second question comms specialists need to ask is how “the individual viewer” fits into the bigger picture. But the author doesn’t quite state that comms specialists need to identify anyone’s particular “tastes.” Rather, they need to consider how viewers experience and “ascribe meanings” to media.

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The author states in P3 that this is the first question that comms specialists need to ask.

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the role of ███ ████████ ████████ ██████████ ██ ███ █████ ████ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ███████

This is the overall question that the study should seek to answer, but we’re looking for the first step in answering that question. And the first step is to identify the right model to describe the relationship between imported and domestic media.

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This twists what the author says. The author says that the first step is to identify the right model to describe the relationship between imported and domestic media. She then gives an example of such a model: maybe there are shared aspects of both kinds of media that are popular with audiences. But this example is just hypothetical. Until the right model is identified, we don’t know if there are any shared aspects, so the first step can’t be to identify shared aspects.

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This comes close to, but misrepresents, the second question that comms specialists need to ask. The second question involves how viewers ascribe meanings to media—whether those media are external or domestic. The first question, meanwhile, is what the right model is to describe the relationship between external and domestic media.

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