MediainDIfferentCountriesICS16RUE


 * 1)  In Country Reports, go to the United States. In the left column, go to Economy and finally to Media. Select 4 other countries to compare to the United States for the ** number of cell phones, Internet users, Internet hosts and telephones. Try to include countries from different continents. **
 * 2)  On the top right of the chart, you will see an icon to print or to export. Select Export to download the image as a jpeg image. Make sure it is a jpeg . Save it in My Document.
 * 3) ** Find it in My Documents and change the name from Chart.jpg to Chartyourinitials.jpg ** . (You cannot all upload a document called chart. The wiki will not differentiate and you will end up with someone's chart other than your own on your page.)
 * 4)  Create a wiki student journal page called ** Media initials and your code name **
 * 5) Upload and insert the jpeg chart file that you created from Country Reports in your media wiki page.


 * 1) How do the number of each of the forms of telecommunications differ in the USA and the other countries you chose? Obviously the data is influenced by the population size, so try to compare for instance, the ratio of cell phone users compared to telephone users or Internet users etc., rather than just comparing total numbers. Write a summary list of sentences describing the differences in the media in the various countries.
 * The U.S. has a 91% adult cell phone ownership rate and 290 million cell phones. Brazil has about 240 million cell phones making it second on the graph. Germany has approximately 115 million phones with the UK having just under 110 million. France has about 60 million phones. This is a large difference between the top country, the U.S., and the lowest country here, France. The population, though, affects this. For example, the Brazil has 200.4 million people so there are more phones than people in Brazil. In this aspect, Brazil has a higher ownership rate of cell phone than the U.S. France has 66 million people with 60 million people so the have an ownership rate of about 91% like the U.S. The UK has 81 million cell phones and 64.1 million people so they have a 126% ownership rate. Germany has 80 million people and 108,700,000 phones so they have a 135% ownership rate.
 * 1) Can you explain the differences that you observe? Write a sentence or two that might explain what you are observing, or write a list of questions about the numbers in the countries. What information might help you understand what you are observing?
 * The differences are odd. The amount of phones in the U.S. are much larger than Germany and the United Kingdom, yet the U.S. ownership rate is lower than them because the ownership rate is higher than 100% in Germany, the U.K., and Brazil. I am most astonished at how many phones there are in countries and the fact that there are more cell phones than people! This makes me question whether everyone has a phone, which I feel unlikely because of extreme poverty in these countries particularly Brazil, or if upper class-men/women have a lot of phones. Also, why are they producing so many phones for medium size population countries? Why are there so much less internet users in Brazil with a similar population to the U.S.? Why are there so many more cell phones than telephones in the World? Why are there so may more internet hosts than internet users?
 * 1) Go back to Country Report. Select one of the countries used in your chart for additional information. Read the summary about the media in the country. Then read about education, population distributions, etc to find answers to one or more of your questions.
 * After going back to Country Reports, I've figured out that companies aren't trying to make more phones for countries with less people, products are just distributed to different places depending on demand and order. In the U.S. there are a lot of people and a problem with poverty so many people don't have phones or just can't afford them due to their high prices.