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Past Test Questions
100
Name one way Dr. Mark Bauerlein from "The Dumbest Generation" says kids are negatively impacted by technology.
What is it cuts into book reading time, intensifies social contact and peer pressure, gives them untrue expectations of the workplace, higher narcissism, a failure to take an interest in history, bad writing habits, and a negative altering of the human socialization process
100
What is the single most overrepresented crime on television?
What is murder
100
What is a monopoly? A) a few firms dominate an industry B) a media market with many producers and sellers but only a few products within a particular category C) a single firm dominates production and distribution in a particular industry, either nationally or locally
What is a single firm dominates production and distribution
100
Who invented the Internet? Who invented the Web?
What is no one and Tim Berners Lee
100
Which company is the largest bookseller in the United States? A) Amazon B) Wal-mart C) Borders D) Barnes and Noble E) Books-a-Million
What is Amazon
200
George Santayana argues AGAINST "The Dumbest Generation" article. Name one argument he presents against the article.
What is IQ scores are rising, no evidence on whether technology impairs thinking ability, technology might have cognitive benefits (build your own narratives, deductive reasoning skills, identify cause and effect)
200
What is the most prevalent crime in REAL life, making up over 80% of real crime committed?
What is property crime
200
What is the difference between a direct and indirect payment?
What is direct payment involves media products supported primarily by consumers (book, CD, movie, Internet or TV cable service) and an indirect payment involves media products supported primarily by advertisers (TV broadcasting, daily newspapers, magazines, most Web sites)
200
What was invented in 1971 that allowed the first personal computers to be invented? A) Fiber optic cables B) Microprocessors C) Spyware D) Web browsers
What is microprocessors
200
What term means "the willingness to go to any length to get a story"? A) Populism B) Tabloidization C) Muckraking D) Casuistry E) Synecdoche
What is muckraking
300
Neil Howe from the Washington Post argues that who deserves to be called the dumbest generation? A) college age kids B) 30 year olds C) 40 year olds D) 60 year olds
What is 40 year olds, "Generation Jones"
300
TV criminals tend to be (younger/older) and (poorer/richer) than real criminals?
What is older and richer
300
Where are there gaps in access to the Internet? (Who has trouble accessing the Internet?)
What is poor, old, uneducated, undeveloped countries
300
The name of the person who first learned how to mass-produce records is: A) Thomas Edison B) Gerald Levin C) Lee De Forest D) Shawn Fanning E) Emile Berliner
What is Emile Berliner
400
The article "Violent Crime on American Television: A Critical Interpretation of Empirical Studies", Amir Hetsroni states that how many out of four Americans think there is a relationship between violence on television and the national crime rate? A) 1 B) 3 C) 2 4) 4
What is 3 out of 4
400
Has the REAL LIFE violent crime rate been steadily increasing or decreasing? Has the TELEVISION violent crime rate been steadily increasing or decreasing?
What is real life = decreasing, television = increasing
400
Name two of the five companies that reign in digital media and say one reason it reigns
What is Amazon: largest e-commerce site, Apple: creating technology to bring any media content to users' fingertips, most valuable company in the world, Facebook: central to communication and social media, one billion users, Google: translated its users into an advertising business, search engine, digital media distribution; Microsoft: one of the wealthiest digital companies in the world, transitioning to a successful search engine (Bing) and game consoles (Xbox)
400
What is net neutrality?
What is the principle that every Web site and every user has the right to the same Internet network speed and access
400
Taking the American viewpoint on events and judging other countries based on how they measure up to the US is called: A) Ethnocentrism B) Small town pastoralism C) Responsible capitalism D) Individualism E) Nationalistic regression
What is ethnocentrism
500
The article "Violent Crime on American Television" names several groups as underrepresented on Television. What is one group named?
What is women, minorities, young/old, blue collar workers, poor
500
Describe in your own words the Just World Syndrome and the Mean World Syndrome
What is mean world: you see world as dangerous and see people as untrustworthy and just world: the belief that justice is the usual outcome of conflicts in the world
500
Match the correct regulation act to its definition. Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 Celler-Kefauver Act of 1950 Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 - Prohibited manufacturers from selling only to dealers and contractors who agree to reject the products of rivals - Outlawed the monopoly practices and corporate trusts that fixed prices to force competitors out of business - Strengthened antitrust rules by limiting corporate mergers that reduced competition
What is Sherman: outlawed monopolies, Clayton: prohibited selling only to dealers who agreed to reject rivals, Celler: limited corporate mergers
500
Name one of three definitions of the Internet. (Think: The internet is the global information system that does three things mentioned in lecture)
What is linked together by a globally unique address space, supports global communication using TCP/IP, provides both public and private services via communication infrastructure
500
Which of the following lists the 3 stages of new mass media technologies in the course of their maturation in the correct order? A) Innovation, Consumer, End-market B) Entrepreneurial, Innovation, Stability C) Invention, Marketing, Consumer D) Innovation, Entrepreneurial, Stability E) None of the above
What is Innovation, Entrepreneurial, Stability
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