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100

This radio show turned sitcom relied on troubling racist stereotypes and was ultimately cancelled after backlash from the NAACP.

What is Amos N' Andy?

100

This federal agency is responsible for regulating radio and television. 

What is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)?

100

This is the practice of gathering information from consumers purchasing and media habits through a variety of channels including internet cookies.

What is data mining?

100

Mass media determine the issues that concern the public rather than the public’s views

What is Agenda Setting?

100

An animated series  about the infinite adventures of a genius alcoholic and careless scientist, with his grandson, a 14 year-old anxious boy who is not so smart.

What is Rick and Morty?

200

In 1999, this media was the best selling sound recording platform accounting for 88% of all albums sold. 

What are compact discs (CDs)

200

By contrast to broadcasting, this allows for the use of specialized programming for diverse and fragmented groups.

What is narrowcasting?

200

This internet giant was started in Seattle Washington in 1995.

What is Amazon?

200

The ways the public consumes media. This theory states that consumers use the media to satisfy specific needs or desires.

What is uses and gratifications theory?
200

Show about a working-class white family living in Queens, New York. Its patriarch is Archie Bunker (O'Connor), an outspoken, narrow-minded man, seemingly prejudiced against everyone who is not like him or his idea of how people should be.

What is All in the Family?

300

This person is credited with inventing the phonograph and the first commercially viable lightbulb.

Who is Thomas Edison?

300

In 1985 cable companies began offering this to allow customers to purchase access to one time sporting events or newly released movies.

What is pay-per-view (PPV)?

300

These are the 5 stages of the media literacy process. 

What are description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation, and engagement?

300

Those who hold a minority opinion silence themselves to prevent social isolation, explains the role of mass media in the formation and maintenance of dominant opinions.

What is spiral of silence theory?

300

A crime procedural, features both a police investigation of a crime discovered during the cold open, and a prosecution case set forth by the New York County District Attorney, at the Manhattan DA's office.

What is Law & Order.

400

Name two of the three largest record labels as of 2015.

Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment

400

The era of 24-hour cable news began in 1980 with the creation of this network by media mogul Ted Turner.

What is CNN?

400

This form of direct digital communication followed e-mail and now generates a large percentage of all digital correspondence globally. 

What is instant messaging?

400

Media focuses attention on certain events and then places them within a field of meaning.

What is framing?

400

Follows an upper middle class African-American family led by Andre 'Dre' Johnson (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow Johnson (Tracee Ellis Ross). The show revolves around the family's lives, as they juggle several personal and sociopolitical issues.

What is Blackish?

500

This K-Pop star was the first to break through in the United States with a 2012 hit that topped charts around the globe.

Who is Psy?

500

This CBS show was the most watched scripted show of 2019 according to Nielsen.

What is NCIS?

500

This is the most popular MMORPG globally.

What is World of Warcraft?

500

This theory depends on opinion leaders sharing information with a broader audience.

What is the two-step flow?

500

A historical drama television series based on the novel series of the same name by Diana Gabaldon. It stars Caitriona Balfe as Claire Randall, a married former World War II nurse who in 1945 finds herself transported back to Scotland in 1743.

What is Outlander?

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