Postmodernism
Persuasion and Propaganda
Communication Privacy Management
Science and Images
MISC
100

This is a definition of POSTMODERNITY.

What is "a way of seeing the world informed by a period of time in the mid-to-late 20th century".

100

These are the 3 persuasive appeals.

What are ethos, pathos, and logos?

100

True or False: The current solutions for image privacy online are satisfactory and meet the needs of consumers.

What is false. Liu et al. found that solutions do not provide adequate personalization, accuracy, or flexibility. 

100

This is a digital wireframe drawing of a man used in cockpit simulations. 

What is the Boeing Man (1964).

100

True or False: a representation is not significantly different from the thing it represents.                                                    


    

False. Representations are wholly distinct from the things they represent.

                                                       


    

200

These are some of the radical changes that informed the development of postmodernity.

What are global travel and mass migration, new technologies, dissolution of major nation states, and growing income gaps. 

200

This is a definition of propaganda.

What is "The use of spoken, written, pictorial, or musical representations to influence thought and action through debatable techniques" or "Propaganda uses nonfactual information and one-sided information that appear to be facts, along with emotional appeals, to achieve a goal". 

200

This is a definition of Communication Privacy Management theory.

What is "an evidence-based theory that seeks to understand how people make decisions about sharing (or not sharing) private information".

200

During the period from the Greeks to the Renaissance, this was the primary focus of medical images.

What is exploration?

200

This is the affective element of the image.

What is the punctum?

300

These are 3 elements of postmodernity.

What are skepticism/relativism, fragmentation, and deconstruction.

300

This is a definition of persuasion. 

What is "Persuasion uses factual information and emotional appeals to change a person’s mind and promote a desired behavior".

300

These are 2 of the 5 assumptions of Communication Privacy Management theory.

What are control, personal privacy rules, co-ownership, negotiation, and/or turbulence.

300

During the period from the Renaissance to the late 1800s, what traits did medical images gain?

What are medical images became more expressive and artistic?

300

Deluca describes Image Events as...

What are staged acts of protest designed to attract media attention?

                                                       


    

400

These are 2 of the 4 visual elements of postmodern images.

What are self-referential, ironic or playful tone, a blend of mismatched or incompatible styles, and/or challenges to the nature of representation.

400

This is what we can do as audience members to avoid being victims of propaganda.

What is developing our visual literacy skills?

400

This is a definition of "boundary turbulence".

What is "the result of poorly coordinated privacy rules, resulting in undesirable exposure of private information".

400

After the introduction of photography, what feature of photographs made them work well as data for scientific endeavors?

What is the notion of photographic truth?

400
This is a definition for Aesthetics.

What is "the inquiry into the nature of sense perception AND/OR the consideration of an image's beauty, style, or creative expression. 

500

This is a definition of pastiche. 

What is "a style of plagiarizing, quoting, and borrowing from a mix of previous styles or texts with no reference to these element’s history or sense of rules".

500

During the Cold War, communication scholars critiqued what aspect of mass media?

What is its ability to serve as a tool of propaganda, especially in authoritative/totalitarian regimes?

500

This is an explanation of how CPM helps us understand our relationship to images online.

What is CPM encourages us to take active ownership of our images and perform and active negotiation over our boundaries, the rules of our boundaries, and consequences for violating those rules. 

500

The "Era of the Quantified Self" reflects what aspects of our relationship to technology and images?

What is that "diagnostic imaging gave consumers the power to image and understand their body more in more ways than ever before", such as health-monitoring devices like Fitbits. 

500

Film is an example of this kind of movement.

What is Apparent Movement?