Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Miscellaneous
100

Oral communication, smoke signals, papyrus, tree bark

Name a pre-printing press way of communication?


100

What are good characteristics of effective listening in a conversation?

  • Being engaged in the conversation
  • The greatest impediment to good listening is people’s attention spans
  • People generally retain around 50 percent of what they heard immediately after it has been said.
100

Hegemony

What is the ability of those in power in a society to use the media to reinforce the status quo

100

Guarantees that people have the right to access most information produced by the Federal government

What is the Freedom of Information Act?

100

The telegraph

Can be considered the first electronic medium

200

To read

What is the common basic definition of literacy?

200

Elements in perception


  • Categorization, making sense of what you are experiencing, selection
200

Steps in the Scientific Method

  • Reviewing the literature about what is already known about an area
  • Designing a way to systematically collect data
  • Formulating a hypothesis
200

Public speech

When a person communicates something that is intended for a large audience that can be considered?

200

Language

What is the most basic element of human communication?

300

The key innovation in communication technology that enabled civilization as we know it was?

What is hieroglyphics

300

According to Medium Theory, networks like Twitter and Instagram

Can potentially reshape our social structure

300

Held that the First Amendment also applied to the states

The Supreme Court case Gitlow v. U.S. ruling

300

Name a few reasons for the need for digital literacy?

  • People need be able to evaluate the quality of information on the Internet
  • People need to learn how to create content for the Internet
  • People have to learn how to interact appropriately on the Internet
  • People have to understand the hazards of being online
400

The study of communication is important because?

understanding how we communicate is essential to understanding what it means to be human

400

Agenda setting

The media does not tell us what to think but what to think about, which shapes the public agenda

400

Any speech that is primarily connected to the conduct of business

What is commercial speech

400

Why do governments want to control speech?

Speech is inextricably tied to power

500

To which aspect of the contemporary world was the printing press an enabling technology?

  • Capitalism
  • Democracy
  • Modern science
  • Nationalism
500

In most cases, when professional communicators are faced with an ethical dilemma, they will make their decision based on?

Their personal ethics

M
e
n
u