Music
Radio
Mass Media
Newspapers
Print Media
100
What became (and still dominates its competition) the top music retailer in the United States in 2008?
What is iTunes? By 2013, iTunes had sole more than 25 billion songs.
100
What invention by Samuel Morse made radio possible?
What is the telegraph, the precursor of radio technology that used Morse Code
100
What is mass media?
What is the cultural industries - the channels of communication - that produce and distribute songs, novels, TV, shows, etc. to large numbers of people
100
Who published the first newspaper-like thing?
What is Julius Caesar
100
What is the oldest book?
What is the codex - a type of book made of sheets of parchment and sewn together along the edge?
200
What is a phonograph and who invented it?
What is a machine that plays back sound invented by Thomas Edison? It was originally marked as an answering machine.
200
What tragic event popularized the radio?
What is the sinking of the Titanic in 1912; wireless reports played a critical role in pinpointing the ship's location, enabling rescue ships to save over seven hundred lives
200
What is mass communication?
What is the process of designing cultural messages and stories and delivering them to large and diverse audiences through media channels?
200
What happened to newspapers as America became more urban?
What is papers began to associate themselves with cities
200
What is block printing? What was its effect?
What is carving blocks of wood with raised surfaces and then applying sheets of paper to those surfaces after covering them with ink? Enabled multiple copies to be printed and then bound together
300
How did record companies try to sabotage radio? Did it work?
What is tried to charge radio to play recorded music, causing many stations to leave the air but did not stop radio (radio stations either refused to pay or paid small royalties).
300
What would happen if two radio stations were physically located next to one another and played on similar frequencies? How did radio stations use this to their advantage?
What is you would not be able to hear either one; used to drive out competition
300
What is the difference between high and low culture?
What is high culture associated with higher levels of taste, education, complexity, wealth; low culture associated with mass popularity, throwaway culture, simplistic appeals
300
What is the partisan press?
What is newspapers became openly affiliated with political parties
300
Who invented the printing press and what was the first book he mass marketed?
What is Johannes Gutenberg and the Gutenberg Bible
400
What is Tin Pan Alley? What was its effect?
What is a section of Broadway in Manhattan, used to describe the way that quickly produced songs sounded like cheap pans clanging together. Played a key role in transforming popular music into a mass medium.
400
How did the Top 40 format of radio come to be?
What is Todd Storz's idea of rotation: playing the top songs many times during the day because waiters and patrons repeatedly played certain favorite songs from the forty records available in jukeboxes
400
What is the media maturation model?
What is media technology goes through predictable stages; innovation, entrepreneurial, stability, media convergence
400
What are the two things the Yellow Press Period is characterized by?
What is overly dramatic stories about crimes, celebrities, and scandals, and investigative journalism represented as a crusade for the common people Bonus: who is the Yellow Kid? Is it associated with race?
400
What is the Diamond Sutra?
What is the oldest block printed book by the Chinese
500
Describe the enormous controversial effect of rock and roll.
What is hit in the mid-1950s and was the first musical form to transform sound recording and radio, integrate black and white cultures (black artists undermined), confuse issues of sexual identity (Mick Jagger, Elvis), blur geographic borders between country and city (Rockabilly), and create the payola scandals (record promoters pressured DJS)
500
What is the FCC?
What is the Federal Communications Commission, covering radio and telephone and the telegraph, regulatory agency that oversees radio licenses and negotiates channel problems
500
What is media convergence and give an example
What is older media reconfigured in various forms of newer media - ex. books on a Kindle
500
Name the three periods of the history of American News and briefly describe them
What is Colonial/Partisan Period (criticized government, played to urban areas), Penny Press (cheap papers), Yellow Press Period (yellow kid)
500
What were the effects of the printing press?
What is ushered in the 1st age of mass communication, individual's social identities no longer dependent on solely their environment (what they were told, the community they lived in); allowed them to better think for themselves
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