Policy and Regulation
Citizenship
Technology
Consumerism
What About AI?
Global Media
100
The government agency in charge of all media regulations in the United States.
What is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)?
100
A late night host who was publicly suspended, fired, and rehired after making bold remarks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, raising questions about government involvement of media regulation.
Who is Jimmy Kimmel?
100
This era of media is founded on the idea of the user being an agent of creativity and production.
What is New Media (Web 2.0)?
100
Daytime competition show devoted to the celebration of consumerist knowledge.
What is The Price is Right?
100
Artificially generated memes or other absurdist comedy.
What is AI slop?
100
The rigid assumption that a few select countries hold all of the cultural power of media representation in the world.
What is global imperialism?
200
One type of regulation put in place to protect against media monopolies.
What are antitrust systems?
200
This form of content adopts familiar aspects of news broadcast and journalism, yet incorporates comedy and satirical writing.
What is satirical news?
200
A word meaning "the space between."
What is "medium?"
200
This type of content and advertising is often directed at the "shoppers of the family."
What is gendered advertising/consumption?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Who is Charlie Warzel?
200
A Columbian telenovela that inspired many successful global adaptations in countries like India, Greece, and the United States.
What is Yo soy Betty, la fea?
300
When private media companies and platforms impose their own rules.
What is Self-Regulation?
300
Describe this.
What is a political meme?
300
The four stages of new technology development.
What are invention, distribution, regulation, and domestication?
300
This journalist once described Barbie (2023) as a contradictory media experience, sprinkling serious moments with "window shopping."
Who is Athena Bellas?
300
A visual creation of Artificial Intelligence meant to mimic reality to avoid detection.
What is an AI hallucination?
300
This film, released in 2018, while visually lush and impressive, failed to make a global mark in the way that Hollywood was expecting.
What is Crazy Rich Asians?
400
The three types of media regulation.
What are ownership, content, and infrastructure?
400
Jurgen Habermas proposed this as the metaphorical space in which communication occurs.
What is the public sphere?
400
A published work of research on the ways in which human bias influence technology, including via codes and algorithms.
What is Algorithms of Oppression, by Safiya Noble?
400
The "Dove Real Beauty Sketches" are an example of this form of advertising.
What is branded entertainment?
400
The three types of potential revenue streams within Artificial Intelligence.
What are consumer spending, advertising, and combination streams?
400
A combination of two words that describes the global media preferences more realistically as a mixture of two tastes.
What is glocalization?
500
The vague and utopic value that the government is protecting with the First Amendement.
What is public interest?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
networked counterpublics
500
The idea that technology, rather than humans, is now in the controlling seat of cultural development.
What is technological determinism?
500
A French phrase referring to a "picture of social life."
What is the Social Tableaux?
500
Name of the largest AI software production company.
What is Alphabet?
500
A word meaning "same," which has been used to describe how global imperialism may work culturally.
What is homogeneous/homogenization?