Mass Media
The mass media function whereby individuals use media to learn about the world around them.
What is surveillance?
Hollywood's first blockbuster motion picture.
What is Jaws?
The very first record label, now a subsidiary of a Japanese media conglomerate.
What is Columbia Records?
The youngest of the Big Four national networks.
What is Fox?
The winner of Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year.
Who is You?
The shared beliefs, practices, and knowledge shared that members of a group understand and use in the creative experience.
What is culture?
The basic building block of a film.
What is a shot?
The Italian inventor of the transistor radio.
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
These interstitial ads were the solution to the "problem" that broadcast signals are free.
What are commercials?
Like a duet in song or a partner's dance, this activity done with others is the point of communication.
What is the exchange of meaning?
The mass media function whereby individuals use media to learn about the world around them.
What is surveillance?
The influential movie magic era where director's had total control to tell interesting, challenging stories in artistically motivated ways.
What is New Hollywood?
The medium of choice for sound recording before the development of vinyl acetate.
What are wax cylinders?
The first 24 hour cable news network.
What is CNN?
Everyone's first friend on MySpace.
Who is Tom Anderson?
This might occur when a conglomerate controls several products or services within the same industry, for instance when SONY releases a new Spider-Man film alongside a PlayStation exclusive game starring the old web-crawler.
What is convergence?
This woman director was the first American to make a narrative feature film with 1914's The Merchant of Venice.
Who is Lois Weber?
The Beatles' famous and beloved response album to Pet Sounds.
What is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
The "a" in AM radio.
What is amplitude?
This reporter was decidedly NOT an internet personality. If he knew how to make a website, he might have kept up the lies a little longer.
Who is Stephen Glass?
Like a duet in song or a partner's dance, this activity done with others is the point of communication.
What is the exchange of meaning?
This stock sound effect has been used in film for more than 70 years, often for when background characters fall from high places.
Dad rock at this point; your instructor's favorite band.
What is The Hold Steady?
This neighborly avian titan was supplanted by Elmo as the star of Sesame Street in the late 1990s.
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?