Quiz's 13, 14, and 15

Question 1

What technology was used as early as the mid 1920s?

Answer 1

shortwave radio

Question 2

Clandestine broadcast stations flourished the most during which period?

Answer 2

The Cold war years

Question 3

Which of the following is enforced by the Chinese government as a means to control information?

Answer 3

Internet accounts must be registered with the police

Question 4

FreeNK is an example of an

Answer 4

exogenous station

Question 5

Al-Zawraa, an antigovernment sunni-operated satellite TV station transmitting form constantly changing location is an ample of a _____ station

Answer 5

Clandestine

Question 6

How does the development concept differ from the authoritarian concept of mass media?

Answer 6

The development concept has less censorship and less government control of content

Question 7

What is one significant difference between American and European internet users?

Answer 7

European internet users must opt in before their personal data can be shared

Question 8

What is the best definition of selective retention?

Answer 8

People best remember messages that are consistent with their preexisting beliefs

Question 9

What is an example of Uses and Gratification theory?

Answer 9

Entertainment and information

Question 10

The examination of such concepts as justice goodness and fairness are examples of _____?

Answer 10

metaethics

Question 11

A reporters right to maintain a sources confidentiality in a court of law is ______?

Answer 11

protected by shiels law in most states

Question 12

What was the significance of the 1957 supreme court case Roth V. United States?

Answer 12

It determined that sex and obscenity were not synonymous

Question 13

Cultivation analysis

Answer 13

Peoples ideas of themselves and their world are shaped through media

Question 14

Hypodermic needle or magic bullet theory

Answer 14

people need to be told what to think

Question 15

Two-step flow theory

Answer 15

Peoples voting behavior was influenced by opinion leaders (people who interpret media and pass it on to opinion followers)

Question 16

Dissonance

Answer 16

people, when confronted by new information, experience a kind of mental discomfort. Selective exposure, selective retention, and selective perception

Question 17

Uses and gratification theory

Answer 17

Looks at how people use the media (entertainment and information)

Question 18

Agenda setting

Answer 18

media dont tell you WHAT to think but what to think ABOUT

Question 19

Social cognitive theory

Answer 19

The idea that people learn through observation.

Question 20

How can you apply Social cognitive theory and what are some examples

Answer 20

It can be applied by using it as a guide to behavior change interventions

Example: Modeling, imitation, and identification

Question 21

Argument #1 Media content has limited impact on audiences because people know it isnt real

Answer 21

1. New is not make believe
2. Most films are made to seem real
3. Some are expressively real (reality TV)
4. Advertising is supposed to tell the truth
5. Early window (media gives a window to the world to children before they can judge it
6. We enjoy shows by willingly suspending disbelief

Question 22

Argument #2 Media content has limited impact on audiences because it is only play or entertainment

Answer 22

1. News is not play or entertainment
2. Play is important to the way we develop our knowledge

Question 23

Argument #3 Media holds a mirror to society and reflects our world as it is

Answer 23

Media is a very selective mirror. Some are over or under represented or not even visible

Question 24

Argument #4 Media reinforces preexisting values and beliefs

Answer 24

1. Traditional socializing agents have lost most influence
2. Reinforcement is not the same as having no effects

Question 25

Argument #5 Media may affect unimportant things in our lives (fashion or fads)

Answer 25

1. Fads and fashion are not unimportant
2. Billions of money is spent on media efforts to sway social issue opinions

Question 26

Modeling

Answer 26

learning through imitation and identification

Question 27

Imitation

Answer 27

the direct replication of an observed behavior

Question 28

Identification

Answer 28

a special form of imitation by which observers do not exactly copy what they have seen but make a more generalized but related response

Question 29

Free press vs. fair trial

Answer 29

1st amendment is freedom of the press and the 6th is fair trial

Question 30

4 parts of the 1st amendment

Answer 30

Freedom of speech, press, religion, and peaceable assemble

Question 31

Libel

Answer 31

the false or malicious publication of material that damages a person reputation

Question 32

Slander

Answer 32

oral or spoken purposeful malice, defamation of a person character (has to have a third party present)

Question 33

Obscenity and pornography

Answer 33

sexually explicit content is pornography and protected until a court makes it illegal then it is obscenity and not protected

Question 34

what is Roth of the United States

Answer 34

The First Amendment does not protect obscenity

Question 35

Copyright

Answer 35

identifying and granting ownership of a given piece of expression

Question 36

fair use and public domain

Answer 36

fair use (only a portion), public domain (anything all free)

Question 37

What are the nine ethical news values?

Answer 37

1. Accuracy and Accountability
2. Confirmation
3. Tenacity
4. Dignity
5. Reciprocity
6. Sufficiency
7. Equity
8. Community
9. Diversity

Question 38

4 things about news values

Answer 38

1. seek truth and report it,
2. minimize harm,
3. Act independently (no conflict of interest like getting paid),
4. Be accountable

Question 39

Global village

Answer 39

Everyone should just try to assimilate and be one big community and culture.