COMM 101_Study Guide 1

In what two ways can media convergence be understood?

Who seeks out new authors and signs them to contracts?

The Harry Potter books are an example of what type of book?

James has to buy law books not sold at average bookstore because they are very specific. Type?

What is the name of the first major new wire service?

Although there is an increased interest in books, there is concern by many for the quality..

E-books and digital technology allow _____.

The first newspaper in the U.S. was banned after one issue.

Which of the following has dominated the comic book industry for more than 30 years?

The magazines that symbolized the general interest genre in the twentieth century were _____.

The Kindle devices are the best-selling products ever on Amazon.

The word magazine is from the _____ word _____, which means “_____.”

Subsidiary rights refer to:

In the map model, culture is viewed as _____.

Illuminated manuscripts were

Newspapers are still considered the most dependable and trustworthy source for news.

Why was the style of paperback novel introduced by Erastus & Irwin Beadle known as dime novels?

The Culture as a Map Model views culture as ____________.

Designers work on the look of books. Which of the following do they NOT make a decision about?

The first daily papers in American colonies ______________.

Johannes Guttenberg developed the printing press, which he adapted from the design of ______.

When people seek messages and produce meanings that correspond to their own cultural beliefs.

What was the first mass-marked product in history?

Which of the following is a reason why magazines developed slowly in colonial America?

Human-interest stories

Media------- make decisions about what messages actually get produced for particular receivers.

General-interest magazine for national audience, appealed to women, longest-running in USA?

A Mental Health Today, a magazine with articles about psychology. This type of magazine is

Decline in newspaper readership began in the Great Depression, with the rise of _____________.

_____, involves amateur journalists disseminating news via the Web to mainstream media.

Which of the following is NOT a traditional method of selling books?

In the ------, editorial content stays, but magazine includes pages of ads from regional firm.

The best-selling book of all time is the Bible, in all its diverse versions.

Media Literacy refers to attaining understanding of mass media and how they construct meaning.

Why newspaper executives give away online content for freedom of the Internet age?

Lindsay signed up for an evergreen magazine subscription. This means

Called Muckrakers because they were willing to crawl through society’s muck to uncover a story.

Life magazine was an influential general-interest magazine from the 1930s­ to the 1960s. Why?

What does seditious libel mean?

An example of a self-published book made it to the best-seller list is Fifty Shades of Grey.

Technically, what was the first book to be available digitally and thus started e-books?