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Media Influence on Society MCQ

The media’s influence on 100 politicians has much more significant and profound implications than their influence on 100 regular voters.

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Correct Answer: True

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The theory that television plays a homogenizing role for otherwise heterogeneous populations is known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Cultivation theory

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The debate between Nixon and Kennedy in 1960 emphasized the growing importance of ______ in politics.

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Correct Answer: Appearance

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The problem with early theories of mass media is that they gave too much weight to the ability of the reader to select, screen, and judge media information.

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Correct Answer: False

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The 1950s theory that mass media played a crucial role in uniting and homogenizing a disparate and atomized population is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Mass society theory

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Which U.S. president was the first to use Twitter?

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Correct Answer: Barack Obama

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In postmodern society, the image has come to replace the “real” as a new form of ______.

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Correct Answer: Hyperreality

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When talking about the loss of “mediating institutions” in American politics, the authors are referring to ______.

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Correct Answer: Structures that organize and mobilize groups of ordinary citizens

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Today, the most important determinant of a person’s vote is party affiliation.

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Correct Answer: False

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The argument of U.S. cultural imperialism now seems problematic because ______.

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Correct Answer: Other nations are becoming less reliant on U.S. media and people in other nations make local interpretations of U.S. media products

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Which of these is not a finding of agenda-setting research?

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Correct Answer: A strong causal relationship between the media’s agenda and the agenda of viewers

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Social movements are groups of citizens who’ve banded together for a political cause and the media has influenced their efforts.

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Correct Answer: True

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The 1996 election was the first in which candidates extensively used the Internet as part of their campaigning.

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Correct Answer: True

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The four key elements of “social media logic” are ______.

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Correct Answer: Programmability, popularity, connectivity, and datafication

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