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Test 3 (Ch. 5 & 6) Flashcards

1
Q

A dark box or room with a small hole that allows an inverted image of an outside scene to be shown on the opposite inner wall?

A

Camera obscura

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2
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Who was the inventor of the daguerreotype, an early type of photography?

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Louis Daguerre

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3
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Who was the 19th century photographer that was acclaimed for his Civil War images and portraits of famous people?

A

Mathew B. Brady

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4
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What three directors are important for the history of movies?

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Murnau, Flaherty, and Eisenstein

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5
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Which german director created the “Nosferatu”?

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F. W. Murnau

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6
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One of the first directions who was successful within the documentary genre was the American director _______, who shot an epic story about Eskimos entitled Nanook of the North.

A

Robert Flaherty

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7
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What was the earliest recording device in the history of photography?

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Camera obscura

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8
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Who created the Kinetoscope?

A

Thomas Alva Edison

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9
Q

What are the kinetoscope compared to?

A

“A peep show”

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10
Q

What was the most viewed series on MTV?

A

Jersey Shore

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What was the most viewed series on HBO?

A

The Suprano’s

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12
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Recording of an audio or video event for later listening or viewing?

A

Time shift

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13
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Viewing TV from anywhere using the Internet to access video originally delivered digitally to the home (or another location).

A

Place shift

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14
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Shows like Survivor, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune are all examples of what?

A

Filling the Nights tv shows

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15
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Can present info in a way that encourages users to learn and explore. Online quizzes, surveys, and games appear in many places on the Web.

A

Interactive Media

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16
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Consists of three main elements:

  1. A dialog that occurs between a human and computer program
  2. A dialog that occurs simultaneously or nearly so.
  3. The audience has some measure of control over what media content it sees and in what order
A

Interactive Media

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17
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Reaches out to a large audience. This includes newspapers, magazines, television, etc.

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Mass Media

18
Q

What was the 1st typewriters?

A

Keyboards

19
Q

What does DARPA stand for?

A

“Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency”

20
Q

Large scale computers in the second half of the 20th century could not communicate with each other prior to the creation of __________. The foundations for this technology were laid in 1969 when the DARPA launched the first network.

A

The internet

21
Q

An invaluable aspect of interactive media is how they change the __________ of users. The dialogic nature of interactive media can personalize people’s relationship with content.

A

Media experience

22
Q

Two of the earliest and most famous technicolor films, both released in 1939, have become classics in the history of American cinema. Audiences are still mesmerized by these films, which have retained their appeal to large audiences. What are these two films?

A

Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz

23
Q

The primary function of the American motion picture industry is to ______.

A

Entertain

24
Q

A crucial element for online communication to reach its full potential as a mass medium is which of the following features?

A

Bandwidth

25
Q

What are the two major functions of still images in society?

A

Surveillance and cultural transmission

26
Q

The exact day when the Internet was launched is difficult to determine. The ________ adopted TCP/ IP as the basis for the ARPANET in 1982. Universities were required to follow suit.

A

Defense Department

27
Q

What social medium was invented in 1971 by the computer engineer Ray Tomlinson? (According to Tomlinson, the symbol @, was the obvious choice for the symbol to separate the names of individuals from their machines.)

A

Email

28
Q

Target ads are geared toward specific consumer behavior. Television is trying to do what _________ has/have been practicing for a while.

A

Internet advertisers

29
Q

To date _______ has not been a major issue on the Internet, largely because Internet users tend to be well educated.

A

Language

30
Q

Sound film changed the landscape of movie-making forever. The first “talkie” offered audiences the experience of listening to recorded music. That film, which was released in 1927 and marks the beginning of sound on film, is ______.

A

The Jazz Singer

31
Q

Korean pop star Psy experience a __________ when his music video received more than 1 billion views in 2012, leading to skyrocketing record sales. This attests to the power of social media to promote music.

A

Youtube milestone

32
Q

When was the TCP adopted?

A

1982

33
Q

A part of the main protocol for the Internet that allows computers to easily communicate with each other over a network.

A

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

34
Q

The process used by some P2P systems in which multiple downloads of the same file are temporarily coordinated to accelerate the downloading process.

A

Swarming

35
Q

A network connection that enables a large amount of bandwidth to be transmitted, which allows for more information to be sent in a shorter period of time.

A

Broadband

36
Q

The basis of file sharing services, a computer communication model and network whose computers are considered equal peers who can send, store, and receive info equally well.

A

peer-to-peer (P2P)

37
Q

What kind of game is FarmVille?

A

A social game

38
Q

Halo 4 was created by who?

A

Microsoft

39
Q

Online or mobile games that are played in real time with others or that encourage simultaneous group playing.

A

Social games

40
Q

Games created to be fun and educational that use game dynamics to instruct players on topics.

A

Serious games

41
Q

The use of game like mechanics in nonage settings, such as earning points, badges, or rewards for performing certain actions?

A

Gamification

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