User:Hanyangprofessor2/Globalization activities

Discussion questions

AI and globalization

Now we will test what AI tools have to say about it – and whether they agree. Ask the following question to THREE different AI models (ex. ChatGPT, Perplexity, DeepSeek, etc.). “List five most likely ways in which globalization could collapse in the modern era, from most likely to least likely”. For your answer, we will record them in a spreadsheet, and see if our AI answers agree,

First, try to answer this question yourself: “From the list of these three countries: Korea China, Japan - which country is the most culturally globalized, from the cultural perspective, i.e. it consumes the most foreign media?” Then, like before, ask this question to at least TWO different AI platforms. See if they agree with one another and with your view. For bonus point, also try to answer: which country is the least culturally globalized, and which the most?

Ask at least two different AIs the following question: “given that my ideal future job is [enter its name here], tell me why learning about the World Value Survey in my university course would be useful. What practical insights I can learn from that module?”

Then tell me whether you agree with the AI answer or not.

Reading 1

Based on our Reading 1 Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White, “What Is Globalization?”, answer the following questions:

What is globalization, according to the authors?
How difficult was the reading? Did you enjoy it or did you find it boring?

WVS/Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world

First, think where you expect to find countries like Korea, China, USA, and what countries are similar when it comes to concepts of tradition vs rational/secular values, and survival vs self-expression.

Next, look at the World Value Survey Map (you can find it on my slides or by googling for ‘world value survey map’; maps from different years have small differences).

Then answer: what is surprising? Are countries like Korea, China, USA, etc. in places you expected them to be?

OECD

What makes OECD different from UN? Why is OECD needed?

One of the major services offered by OECD to the world is its free database of statistical information. But what does it mean in practice – for you? Work with your preferred AI; tell it about your plans for career and ask it how you can use OECD data to help you with it. Then show me the specific page on OECD database that you think is useful for you.

Activities

Add a reference to cultural globalization article

Extra point Wikipedia activity related to cultural globalization: think about your favorite aspects of your culture (ex. food, animation, music, fashion, etc.). Find an English Wikipedia article related to them and add a REFERENCED fact to improve them. For example, you can mention and summarize a Korean or Chinese movie, game or book review in a relevant Wikipedia article.

How to add a reference to Wikipedia: User:Hanyangprofessor2/Instructions/2

Discussions

WWII happened after League of Nations failed. Can the collapse of United Nation lead to World War III?

Using the discussed example of South and North Korea joining UN only in 1991, how can we apply this to the case of China (PRC) and Taiwan (ROC)? What are the similarities and differences here?

UN activitiy

Presentation

We will form 5 groups of up to 10 students each. Each group will choose one of the five principal bodies of the UN to present on (1: General Assembly, 2: Security Council, 3: Economic and Social Council, 4: UN Secretariat and 5: International Court of Justice). Presentations will happen this Friday. Presenting can net you up to 10 points if you are speaking (3 points if you are not speaking but helped prepare the presentation and are in class). The presentation should last about 10-15 minutes and explain issues such as “What is that body doing? How are its members chosen? Is that body important? Is it criticized? Are there plans to reform it?”

Please let me know when you have chosen your topic and who is in your group. First come, first served

Wiki

https://w.wiki/G56U

Activity 1: Take a look at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject:United_Nations

Answer the following questions:

What practical impact such initatives have?
Are they useful to you?
How can you take part in them and what benefits for you that would have?

Activity 2:

Take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject_International_relations/Popular_pages. Try to find one of these that is not well developed in another language you are fluent in (Korean, Chinese, etc.). Can you translate some content form the English article into another language? (Remember: all content you translate needs to be referened; unreferenced content is not eligible for activity score in our class).

Activity 3:

Today’s activity: Wikipedia practice: translate or expand an article from the lists here: https://w.wiki/B4rC

Videos

Continuing from last weeks discussion, today we will watch short documentary about League of Nations and how its fall contributed to the start of World War II tinyurl.com/yrcse5uu I want you to answer the following questions:  What did you find most interesting/surprising about the video?  What can we do avoid this happening again, this time with the United Nations?

WTO activity

Review what WTO is doing for Korea, China or other countries you are interested in using the data from tinyurl.com/wtoclass

How important is WTO membership for those countries and how important is WTO for modern globalization?

Have free trade agreements between Korea and USA, and between China and Korea, been controversial? Why? Who supported them and who opposed them? Who won and who lost? Are those FTAs good for us?

NGO activity

Today’s activity 1: What do you think is the world’s most popular NGO? Take a guess, then a) ask AI if you are right and b) see how popular this NGO is on the list here: https://w.wiki/GVsd

Today’s activity 2: choose an NGO that has a Wikipedia article in English, but is missing it in Korean or Chinese, then translate at least the brief summary, with reverences, to that Wikipedia. You can use AI, give it the English article, and ask it to produce a version for ko or zh wiki, but make sure to proofread it and correct any errors. In particular, check whether the original and translated text are identical - do they have the same references, for example? Same links? AI translations are often not very accurate, AI is often lazy and omits parts, or adds content that was not in the original text.

FTA activity

https://w.wiki/GYP4

Choose a country from the Category:Free trade agreements; look at the information about their free trade agreements (FTAs), ex. Free trade agreements of South Korea or Free trade agreements of China.

Activity 1: Answer the question: are FTAs good or bad for us? What are the benefits and costs associated with them? Why do governments sign them?

Activity 2: translate a chosen article related to FTAs to a Wikipedia of another language, if it is missing

Is globalization increasing

Is globalization increasing? How globalized are Korea, China or other countries? And in what dimensions?

Study the data at tinyurl.com/globalkof and let me know what you think.

What topics related to your country are popular on English Wikipedia?

Activity: 1) Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_popular_pages_by_WikiProject and select three countries to compare. For example, you can choose China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_China/Popular_pages), Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Germany/Popular_pages) and Egypt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Egypt/Popular_pages) 2) Look at the number of page views for their most popular pages. Which is more popular among the readers of English Wikipedia? Which country seems to be influencing globalization the most right now? 3) Chose a listing related to a country you know (ex. Korea, China, etc.). What do international, English readers want to learn about them? Are you surprised? What would you expect to find but is not there, or is not ranked up highly?

Important note 1: The lists you see are about what is popular among English readers. They are based on viewership data from English Wikipedia. They DO NOT tell us what is popular among people who read other language Wikipedias. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/Popular_pages tells us what is popular among English readers when they want to read about Korean topic. It DOES NOT tell us what is popular among Korean readers. Important note 2: This list is based on RECENT popularity (September 2024). It does not tell is about long term popularity. Important note 3: There are some topics which are popular among many countries and are not “good data” (ex. World War II).

AI activity: summarize a review

Activity 2: For activity two, we will practice editing Wikipedia and using AI. First, chose a Korean or Chinese language work that has an article on English Wikipedia (ex. a Korean movie or a Chinese video game). Next, find a Korean or Chinese language review of that media work (ex. a movie review or a video game review. Third, ask AI to write a short and neutral summary of the review (about three sentences long). Fourth, ask another, different AI whether the summary generated by the first AI of the text in question is accurate and if not, what can be fixed. Fifth, read the original review and the AI generated text and analyze them yourself - is the summary good? Sixt. Once you are sure the summary is accurate, add it to that media’s article in the relevant section (reviews/reception), with a reference citing the review (not AI).

Remember: DO NOT ask the AI to review the media. We are using AI to summarize a review written by a human, not to review the media itself.

Gender inqequality activity

Compare gender equality in three countries: South Korea, China and another country of your choice, using 2023 Global Gender Gap Report: tinyurl.com/HANGGGR2023 Then click “economy profiles” and select a country from the map to learn more about it (click “go to economy profile” again for more data). Answer the following question: is the situation of women in those countries good? Can it be better? What can be done to achieve gender equality?

Follow up question: why fewer women in Korea go to university compared to men? (0.8333 = 4:5)?

European Union activity

Today’s activity: understanding European Union. Activity 1: Ask your preferred AI to suggest to you a documentary on YouTube that will explain to you what European Union is. Watch it, then show it to me and tell me a) what did you learn from it and b) what do you think was missing form it?

For extra point, compare the AI's top suggestion to is kurzgesagt documentary about EU. Which one is better?

Using reliable media activity

Analyzing sources

How do you get your information (news)? From social media, news websites, etc.? Let's see how good your sources are. by checking what does collective intelligence (Wikipedia & AI) think about your favorite sources?

Using Wikipedia

Think about what media (websites, etc.) you use most often to read news
See if this media is mentioned at tinyurl.com/wprsps / https://w.wiki/4paF / WP:RS
If it is not mentioned in there, check the discussions at tinyurl.com/wprsn / https://w.wiki/82vg / WP:RSN (use the “search the noticeboard archives” tool)
If it is not mentioned there as well, start a new discussion there asking if this source is good, but do so with a specific example (as in: "source X contains a claim about Y. Can I add this to the article on Y?").
Tell me your answers to activities 1-3 (for 4, wait until next class – it may take few hours or days for people to reply to you)

Using AI

ask AI (Bing Copilot AI, or ChatGPT) is the websites you use are reliable. What will the AI tell you about your sources?
Tell me your answers again

Using reliable sources

Check one of the magazines I brought to the class. Choose one fact from them and add it to the relevant Wikipedia article, with correct citation to that magazine’s article
1. Reminder: How to add a reference to Wikipedia: User:Hanyangprofessor2/Instructions/2
Hint: you can usually locate the text from the magazine online as well, but it may not always be free to access ouside the title and a snippet.
1. National Geographic Magazine website:
2. The Economist website:
3. Foreign Affairs website:
4. Science website:
Add a DIFF of your edit to the list at User:Hanyangprofessor2/Globalization activities/Using reliable source
Show your newly added reference to me for more points

Avoiding fake news

Fake news are major problem. How can we fight them?

1) What are current big news and how are they affected by fake news? Who is trying to lie to us about current news and how? 2) do you know or use any fact checking websites? 3) Look at the websites listed at tinyurl.com/factcheckbe as well as tinyurl.com/factcheckw 4) What fake news have they identified recently? 5) What fact checking websites focus on Asia (in particular, Korea and China)? 6) If you find some that do not exist in the article, for extra credit, suggest some on its discussion (talk) page.