Explain how a nation can use sports to create a sense of national identity. Provide examples of nations that have used this technique.

Which of the following is a conclusion scholars have come to about how the digital age has changed news operations?

a. There has been a large-scale expansion in the size and quality of the core of political news. b. Mainstream news organization remain the most important set of institutions in the American political news system. c. A vast majority of Americans now get their news primarily through Twitter and Facebook. d. Citizens have far fewer sources of news available to them.

Which of the following arguments would Ghemawat probably concede to globalization proponents?

a. that although the world is not flat today, it will be tomorrow b. that the Internet has rendered geographical boundaries irrelevant c. that cyberspace is the only "space" that is truly integrated globally d. that the trend lines mostly point to increasing levels of globalization e. nothing is inevitable about the process of globalization