Mediated 1
Mediated 2
Public 1
Public 2
100
Which kind of news is the project Humans of New York? (https://www.humansofnewyork.com/)
Soft news (not hard news).
100
What is a good example of media participation rather than media consumption?
YouTube
100
Who were the first teachers of public speaking?
The sophists.
100
When and where did the study of public speaking begin?
In Ancient Greece, 5 century BCE.
200
What kind of role does the FCC play in U.S. mediated space? "The Federal Communications Commission regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the Commission is the federal agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America’s communications law and regulations."
The FCC is a regulator.
200
How do we call a person who decides what information should be disseminated and what information should not? Examples: editors, producers, reporters, social media fact-checkers, etc.
(https://medium.com/tunapanda-institute/gate-keeping-in-the-era-of-new-media-3585251d0743)
200
How does persuasion differ from argumentation?
While argumentation involves two sides hoping for a resolution of differences, persuasion involves 2 and more sides. Argumentation has to be persuasive to succeed. Persuasion does not have to be logical to be effective.
200
How does public communication differ from mediated communication?
Public communication is where you have one speaker and a large audience. Mediated communication involves messages sent through a medium to aid the message. A public speech is not necessarily mediated (aired on TV).
300
What does Marshall McLuhan's concept of the global village signify?
Interconnectedness in the globalized and Internet-equipped age.
300
Before being forced to buy Twitter, Musk lamented about censorship on Twitter to benefit liberals (fake news and hate speech as free speech?). As soon as he acquired the platform, according to numerous observations, it became dominated by right-wing content. Who does Musk have a problem with: regulators or gatekeepers?
Primarily gatekeepers, although he may have a problem with regulators in Europe.
https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/elon-musk-twitter-gop-redpilling-humor-posting.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/03/elon-musk-twitter-files/
300
Which concept from Ch 1 (re:impediment in comm process) and means of proof from Ch 10 are demonstrated in this video?
Internal physiological noise and ethos
300
What type of meaning is demonstrated in this video? (Start 1:50)
Misunderstood pragmatics and figurative language (hyperbole and adynaton)
400
Which theory of communication (the magic bullet/linear model or agenda setting) can explain the Missing White Woman syndrome better and why?
(https://www.american.edu/magazine/article/3-minutes-on-missing-white-woman-syndrome.cfm)
The agenda-setting theory
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-long-american-history-of-missing-white-woman-syndrome
400
There are several types of media paradigms (how media channels are sponsored and controlled). Which media paradigms do these media outlets belong: BBC in UK, Fox News in USA, and Xinhua in China?
Free press - public; free press - commercial; authoritarian (state-run).
400
Which fallacy is demonstrated in this video?
Appeal to authority
400
Which means of proof is primarily demonstrated in this video? (Start 0:30)
Logos taken to its extreme and thus becoming an absurdity.
Also, the fallacy of the slippery slope is demonstrated.
500
What does Mashall McLuhan mean by insisting that "the medium is the message"?
There are two ways to understand this idea: 1) sometimes the medium used can send a stronger message (additional meaning); 2) across history new media (a wheel, alphabet, newspaper, Internet, etc.) dramatically changed how humans lived their lives.
500
What does Marshall McLuhan mean by saying:
“For the 'content' of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind"?
A specific medium (something the burglar wants to steal/essence) carries a message often more important than the original content message (a piece of meat/distraction) itself.
500
Which figure of speech is exemplified in this video?
"What does a pack of smokes cost? Your teeth."
Syllepsis, metaphor.
Rhetorically, syllepsis consists in the conception of one word in two different ways at the same time (applying the same single word to the others it governs in different senses) one meaning being literal and the other figurative; thus, “His boat and his dreams sank”.
500
Which means of proof are demonstrated in this video?
Logos, ethos, pathos.