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Society and Media Interaction MCQ

The development of satellites in the 1970s ______.

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Correct Answer: Enabled premium channels like HBO to be born

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In the tv freeze of 19481952, ______.

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Correct Answer: The FCC declared a freeze on new licenses because of concerns about frequency-interference problems

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The conceptual pairing of maleness with humanity in language is known as ________.

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Correct Answer: Androcentrism

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In the twentieth century, advertising ______.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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In an effort to compete with television in the 1950s, the movie studios began making ______.

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Correct Answer: Films that dealt with such social problems as alcoholism, drug abuse, and racism

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In an early attempt to monopolize the film industry, inventor thomas edison formed ______.

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Correct Answer: The Motion Picture Patents Company

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In dialogue, each person is both __________.

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Correct Answer: Sender and receiver

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In the 1800s, america's largest railroads used press agents to ______.

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Correct Answer: Campaign for government funding.

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British television viewers see an average of ______ commercials per week.

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Correct Answer: 311

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The textbook suggests that closing newspaper bureau offices ______.

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Correct Answer: Means fewer stories and fewer versions of stories about important issues and events

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When a studio engaged in block booking, it ______.

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Correct Answer: Required exhibitors to book a large number of new or marginal pictures in order to get the movies they really wanted

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U.s. film viewing decreased during the 1950s because ______.

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Correct Answer: Television cornered the family market

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The transistor made radio receivers ______.

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Correct Answer: Portable

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Social media helped call attention to the _____ in 2011 and 2012.

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Correct Answer: Occupy Wall Street movement

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Since the 1930s, the period of heaviest radio listening has shifted to _____.

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Correct Answer: Drive time

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Rules of punctuation, capitalization, and spacing of written words were developed ______.

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Correct Answer: During the Middle Ages by scribes

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One of cyrus curtis's strategies for reinvigorating the saturday evening post was to _____.

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Correct Answer: Romanticize American virtues through images like Norman Rockwell paintings

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Numerous books became best-sellers after their authors appeared on __________.

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Correct Answer: 20/20.

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Mobile devices like smartphones, ipods, and ipads are also known as _____.

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Correct Answer: Fourth-screen technologies.

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Buffalo bill's publicity agent, john burke, used ______ to promote bill's wild west show.

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Correct Answer: All of the above

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Access-channel mandates were intended to _____.

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Correct Answer: Require cable systems to set aside channels for local government and educational uses

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A show that focuses on wacky incidents is called a _____ comedy.

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Correct Answer: Situation

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______ integrate advertisements as billboards, logos, or storefronts inside a game.

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Correct Answer: In-game advertisements

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An example of using a third screen would be _____.

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Correct Answer: Watching a recent television episode on your computer

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A public relations firm looking to make full use of the internet can ______.

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Correct Answer: All of the options are correct

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______ is the largest publisher in the english language.

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Correct Answer: Bertelsmann

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______ is best known for his/her covers of vanity fair and rolling stone magazines.

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Correct Answer: Annie Leibovitz

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______ are one of the longest-running serial programs in the history of television.

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Correct Answer: Daytime soap operas

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The most important factor that causes ocean tides on earth is the __________.

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Correct Answer: Moon

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______ owns media properties on every continent except antarctica.

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Correct Answer: News Corporation

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The taking-out of material that may offend others is called _____.

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Correct Answer: Censorship

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Our varied media institutions and outlets are basically in the _____, or storytelling, business.

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Correct Answer: Narrative

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Started by edison, the first film monopoly was known as the _____.

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Correct Answer: Trust

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Plus-Sized Model is a female fashion model who wears an ______ clothing size.

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Correct Answer: Both a & b

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Examining how meaning is created within society, who controls the media, and the roles the media play in our lives ,this statement is related to ______ .

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Correct Answer: Critical/Cultural Approach

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Critical Theory addressed the connection _____ .

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Correct Answer: Between ideas and values

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Which of the correct statements about Mean World Syndrome ?

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Correct Answer: The perception of many heavy television watchers of violent programs that the world is a more dangerous and violent place than facts and statistics bear out.

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Cultivation Analysis is an approach to ________ the effects of television viewing that argues that watching significant amounts of television .

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Correct Answer: Analyze

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The process by which individuals produce meaning through interaction based on socially agreed-upon symbols is known as _______ .

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Correct Answer: Symbolic Interactionism

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An approach to studying mass communication that looks at the reasons why audience members choose to spend time with the media ,this statement is related to _______ .

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Correct Answer: Uses and Gratifications Theory

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The process by which individuals learn by observing the behaviors of others and the consequences of those behaviors is known as ______ .

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Correct Answer: Social Learning Theory

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A theory of media effects says that the media tells the public not what to think is known as ______ .

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Correct Answer: Agenda-Setting Theory

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Entertainment is a media communication intended primarily to amuse the audience.

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Correct Answer: True

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Socialization is the process of educating young people and new members about the _______ of a group or society.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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The process of selecting, evaluating, and interpreting events to give structure of the news is known as _____ .

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Correct Answer: Correlation

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The process by which media coverage makes an individual gain prominence in the eyes of the public is known as_______ .

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Correct Answer: Status Conferral

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Surveillance is the media that helps us extend our senses to perceive more of the world surrounding us.

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Correct Answer: True

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Psychographics is a method typically used to potentia ________ markets for products and programs .

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Correct Answer: Analyze

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Which method is typically used to analyze potential markets for products and programs?

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Correct Answer: Geographics

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Which method is typically used to analyze potential markets for products and programs?

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Correct Answer: Demographics

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Influential community members who invest substantial amounts of time learning about their own area of expertise is known as _______ .

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Correct Answer: Opinion Leaders

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