This term can be defined as "an object, device, or channel of communication"
What is a medium?
100
What's the name of the current White House press secretary?
Who is Sean Spicer?
100
He invented the movable type printing press.
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
100
The events in "Best of Enemies" took place in the year ______
What is 1968?
100
What is the very first movie scene shown in the documentary "The Story of Film"?
What is Saving Private Ryan - the beach landing scene.
200
The plural of "medium":
What is media?
200
This southern American city recently made headlines when it took down monuments for figures identified with the Confederacy
What is New Orleans?
200
Louis Daguerre was a pioneer in the development of this kind of media technology.
What is photography?
200
This is the sport that the autonomous robots in "Lo and Behold" play.
What is soccer?
200
This is the name of the author of "The Influencing Machine" - she's also one of the hosts of "On The Media."
Who is Brooke Gladstone?
300
In the language of communication theories like semiotics, the four-letter word _________ might be used to categorize a book, TV show, movie, song, ad, or other creative, communicative product - anything you can "read"
What is text?
300
A recent attack which led to the deaths of two good Samaritans occurred on a train in the American city of __________________
What is Portland, Oregon?
300
The Hays Code was a form of industry self-regulation which governed what kind of media?
What is the movies?
300
Sergei Eisenstein is an important pioneer in this type of media.
What is movies/motion pictures?
300
DAILY DOUBLE: Mathew Brady became famous for his photographs of this conflict - among the first time this technology had been used to chronicle war.
What is the Civil War?
400
____________ is the term for "a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation."
What is libel?
400
Louise Mensch, Claude Taylor, and John Schindler are all figures in an online community dedicated to this.
What is the anti-Trump movement?
400
This was the name of the daily news bulletin that was posted in the Roman Forum
What is the Acta Diurna?
400
In the documentary "Generation Like" we meet a teenage girl who is a huge fan of the _______________ film series.
What is The Hunger Games?
400
This movie is considered to be the first documentary film.
What is Nanook of the North?
500
This is "the study of signs and symbols."
What is semiotics?
500
This man was the director of the FBI until his firing in May.
Who is James Comey?
500
Though people were working on this media technology beginning in the 1920s, it did not fully develop into a mass medium until after World War II.
What is television?
500
The _____________ brothers were two important pioneers in the development of film.
Who are the Lumiere brothers?
500
We analyzed an advertisement for this airline in class.