Chapter 14

Question 1

Why is it necessary to learn about interactive media?

Answer 1

1. pervasive in everyday life

2. helps with personal and professional success

Question 2

A collection of mediated communication technologies that are digital

Answer 2

Interactive media

Question 3

Interactive media is commonly used for 4 main functions, which are?

Answer 3

1. Connecting with others
2. Search for/exchange information
3. Entertainment
4. Financial transactions

Question 4

Critics say that because we have so much access to so much info, we do what?

Answer 4

We “skim” and don’t make an effort to remember

Question 5

Information that is transmitted in an numerical format based on only two values (0 and 1)

Answer 5

Digital

Question 6

Group of internet-based applications that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content

Answer 6

Social media

Question 7

Computers use ___ based communication, meaning that messages are carried digitally between two or more people

Answer 7

Digital-based

Question 8

Interactive media is a ___ form of communication

Answer 8

Mediated form

Question 9

Interactive media is this

Answer 9

social media

Question 10

Web-based service where people construct their profiles, identify others with whom they share a connection, and interact with others within the system

Answer 10

Social networking site (SNSs)

Question 11

text-based “virtual reality” games in which participants interact with enrichments, objects, and other participants

Answer 11

Massively multiplayer online names (MMOGs)

Question 12

What are six categories of social media?

Answer 12

1. blogs
2. social networking sites
3. virtual social worlds
4. collaborative projects
5. content communities
6. massively multiplayer online games

Question 13

What is Facebook an example of?

Answer 13

Social networking site

Question 14

What are wikis an example of?

Answer 14

Collaborative projects

Question 15

What are YouTube and Pinterest exs of?

Answer 15

Content communities

Question 16

What is World of Warcraft an example of?

Answer 16

Massively multiplayer online games

Question 17

T/F: new versions of interactive media are always emerging

Answer 17

True

Question 18

One media characteristic is that some interactive media lacks the capability of what?

Answer 18

social cues

Question 19

Communication in which messages are sent and received at the same time

Answer 19

Synchronous

Question 20

Communication in which messages are sent and received at different time s

Answer 20

Asynchronous

Question 21

Theory that describes the potential information-carrying capacity of a communication medium

Answer 21

Media richness theory

Question 22

Degree of psychological closeness or immediacy engendered by various media

Answer 22

Social presence

Question 23

Email, blogs, and text messaging are how rich according to the social presence/media richness theory?

Answer 23

Low

Question 24

Video chats, virtual social worlds, and virtual game worlds are how rich according to the social presence/media richness theory?

Answer 24

High

Question 25

Social presence theory suggests that what is generally highest in social presence?

Answer 25

Face-to-face communication

Question 26

What is the least rich media according to the media richness theory?

Answer 26

Text messages

Question 27

Theory that suggests face-to-face comm is generally high in social presence, and that media vary in the amount of social presence they convey

Answer 27

Social presence theory

Question 28

Interactive media varies in they type of self-presentation and self-disclosure is allowed

Answer 28

ya

Question 29

In social media, refers to not knowing exactly who is reading one's posts

Answer 29

Collapsing contexts

Question 30

The ease with which content can be spread on social media

Answer 30

Spreadability

Question 31

There are 3 (overlapping) types of information that can be disclosed on interactive media sites?

Answer 31

1. standard information 2. sensitive personal info 3. potential stigmatizing info

Question 32

What is one of the biggest challenges of managing identity?

Answer 32

How to present yourself and manage your online identity

Question 33

Those who say they are concerned about privacy online reveal a lot of information about themselves

Answer 33

Privacy paradox

Question 34

People who read, observe, but do not actively participate in online communities/sites

Answer 34

Lurkers

Question 35

There is an increasingly less opportunity for what online?

Answer 35

Anonymity

Question 36

In some ways, the freedom that people feel as a result of their anonymity may lead them to be what?

Answer 36

Less responsible communicators

Question 37

Unwanted commercial messages and advertisements sent through emails

Answer 37

Spam

Question 38

The practice of trying fraudulently to get consumer banking and credit card information

Answer 38

Phishing

Question 39

Knowing something about the person sending information gives a context for what?

Answer 39

judging his/her message

Question 40

Is anonymous and an infinite number of viewers can participate. The deliberate and repeated misuse of communication technology by an individual or group to threaten or harm others

Answer 40

Cyberbullying

Question 41

Providing false information

Answer 41

Deception

Question 42

Goes beyond anonymity by Projecting a false identity, can be done by using avatars

Answer 42

Pseudoanonymity

Question 43

Digital alter egos or versions of oneself, used in MMOGS

Answer 43

Avatars

Question 44

These through interactive media overcome limits of time and space

Answer 44

Relationships

Question 45

What are weaknesses of online relationships?

Answer 45

Lack of nonverbal cues, asynchrocity

Question 46

What are strengths of online relationships?

Answer 46

Continuity regardless of distance, offer more potential partners than offline,

Question 47

T/F: It is easier to find similar others and to achieve intimate exchanges online

Answer 47

true

Question 48

Online relationships can be based on, this

Answer 48

deception

Question 49

Creating an intentionally deceptive social media profile

Answer 49

Catfishing

Question 50

Storage of data online on multiple servers, accessible from multiple locations

Answer 50

Cloud locations

Question 51

What problems arise through superior-subordinate communication in interactive media?

Answer 51

1. status and boundary issues 2. surveillance issues 3. confidentiality issues

Question 52

T/F: For the most part, communication technologies have decreased the ability for people to do their jobs

Answer 52

false

Question 53

In the workplace this increases uncertainty and has the potential for disagreements and misunderstandings

Answer 53

When colleagues just interact online

Question 54

__ are more likely to play online games

Answer 54

Males

Question 55

___- tend to email more and use social networking sites more

Answer 55

Women

Question 56

What is the fastest growing group of internet users?

Answer 56

70+

Question 57

What ethnicity has a significant presence on twitter

Answer 57

Black americans

Question 58

Inequity of access between the technology "haves" and "have nots"

Answer 58

Digital divide

Question 59

Cultural knowledge and cultural competencies that people need to function effectively in society,

Answer 59

Cultural capital

Question 60

Access to technological skills and resources

Answer 60

Technocapital

Question 61

Cultural capital is determined by who?

Answer 61

Those with the most power

Question 62

Who has access to interactive media in the US is based on what disparities?

Answer 62

Income, education, and urban-rural differneces

Question 63

The range or breadth of internet activities

Answer 63

Multimodality

Question 64

What kind of people are most likely to have access to interactive media?

Answer 64

- young or middle aged - college degree/current student - comfortable income - urban/suburban area - physically abled

Question 65

Some believe that equitable access may lead to what>

Answer 65

a more democratic and equitable world

Question 66

Some believe globalization primarily benefits what nations?

Answer 66

Wealthy western nations, and that these nations continue to control and profit

Question 67

For people to accept new technology, they must see it as what?

Answer 67

Useful and compatible with their values and lifestyle

Question 68

People are more likely to adopt tech if who adopts it?

Answer 68

Their peers

Question 69

Who has suggested that crossing the digital divide requires 4 levels of technocaptial?

Answer 69

Jan van DIjk

Question 70

What are Vab Dijk's 4 levels of access to technocapital

Answer 70

1. Mental access 2. Material access 3. Skills access 4. Usage access

Question 71

Motivation and acceptance of new media as meaningful

Answer 71

Mental access

Question 72

This to digital hardware is where most public policy focuses

Answer 72

Material access

Question 73

Lack of training is seen as a barrier

Answer 73

Skills access

Question 74

Means knowing how to use computer applications

Answer 74

Usage access

Question 75

What are 4 ethical challenges interactive media

Answer 75

1. ethics and identity 2. privacy issues 3. posting ethical messages 4. building ethical mediated relationships

Question 76

Interactive media etiquette: Email: - give your email a context through what? - address the recipient appropriately - check your spelling carefully

Answer 76

- give your email a context through the subject field