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New Media Quiz Questions Flashcards

1
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Other terms used to describe ‘new media’ include all of the following except: Digital Media, Mainstream Media, Emerging Media, Media

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Mainstream Media

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Around what date did the term ‘digital media’ rapidly accelerate?

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1990s

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3
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Which ones of the following doesn’t have real time only as a limitation?

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ideograms

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4
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Of the following, which was the first method of communication that could be infinitely changed, and moved around to interpret different abstract concepts?

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Alphabetic writing

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5
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Which is not an advantage of papyrus over stone?

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Permanence

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6
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Early newspapers were among the first forms of

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Propaganda, Advertisement, Mass Media

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7
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The printing press offered multiple orders of magnitude improvements in printing in all of the following except

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Quality of content

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8
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To connect 10 computers without a router you’d need how many cables? with a router?

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45; 10

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9
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How many bytes are in 48 megabits?

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6000000

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10
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Apple was founded on

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April 1 1976

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11
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Apple was originally called

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Apple Computer Inc

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12
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Who is the current CEO of Google?

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Sundar Pichai

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13
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In what decade was the electric television invented?

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1920s

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14
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What traffic does Netflix use at peak time?

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1/3

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15
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What 5 companies are actively working on artificial intelligence/machine learning?

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Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Apple

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16
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Who thinks that AI can pose a threat to humanity?

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Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Elon Musk

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17
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Which sense do VR experts view as the most difficult to simulate?

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Touch

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18
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What is the core tech innovation of modern VR?

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Positional Tracking

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19
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Where did the term virtual reality first appear?

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In a piece of threatre fiction

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20
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When did the term ‘new media’ first come to use?

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Early 1900s

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21
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A medium is

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The singular form of media; a thing that conveys other things; a means or channel of general communication

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22
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What type of writing preceded alphabetic?

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Logographic

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23
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An integrated development environment is

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An application that includes many necessary tools for software development, like editor and debugger

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24
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Source code repository

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A managed environment for storing the source code that comprises an application

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25
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Standard library

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Set of pre-made software that can be reused and reapplied

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26
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SQL is a way to interact with

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relational databases

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27
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SQL stands for

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Structured query language

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28
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Client-side code

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Runs on a user’s computer

29
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Server-side code

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Runs on a web server

30
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Router

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Broadcasts connection wirelessly

31
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Modem

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Decodes the signal from cable companies

32
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Domain Name System

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An address book for websites

33
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IP

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Internet protocol; a set of communication protocols that define how data should travel

34
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3 pillars of the web

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URL, HTTP, HTML

35
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URL

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address system that keeps track of web documents

36
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HTTP

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A transport protocol to find documents when given their URLs

37
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HTML

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a document format allowing for embedded hyperlinks

38
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Whole widget integrating menas

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hardware and software

39
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The Original Macintosh

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was first to be promoted by super bowl commercial; first mass market computer to use a GUI; first mass market computer to be mouse based

40
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According to Steve Jobs, ‘Design is not just what it looks and feels like, it’s…’

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How it works

41
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where is apple HQ?

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Cupertino CA

42
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Who was depicted in Apple’s original logo?

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Isaac Newton

43
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Not a radical new feature of iPhon

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Copy and paste for text

44
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Who created Android

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Andy Rubin

45
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When was Android acquired by Google?

46
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Google’s line of pure android phones

47
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Current smartphone operating systems

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iOS and Android

48
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Largest manufacturer of Android phones

49
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Obama’s election data effort

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Project Narwhal

50
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Google founders

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin

51
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Apple founders

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Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne

52
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Percentage of audio listening time spent listening to podcasts compared to radio

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1/25 spent

53
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What % of US adults get news via social media?

54
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What percent of US hasn’t heard of podcasting?

55
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Elon Musk is a founder or co founder of

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SpaceX, PayPal, Tesla

56
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In 2014 how many transcations of Bitcoin did Overstock conduct?

57
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Which of the following did paul graham call essential for a startup?

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rapid growht

58
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Agile development

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Process through which startups create minimum viable products

59
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Value proposition

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Features or elements that make a business or product uniquely attractive to consumers

60
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Ephemeral messaging

61
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Texts are limited to

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160 characters

62
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What % do people use twitter/instagram/FB every day?

63
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Dialogic transmission systems

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Transmit from many sources to many receivers

64
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Monologic Transmission systems

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One source to many receivers

65
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7 building blocks of social media

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identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups

66
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VCRs were first widely adopted in the

67
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AI research began in earnest in

68
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3 variations of virtual reality

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Augmented; diminshed; mediated reality

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