Exam 1 Mass Comm and Society

The average digital gaming player is how old?

A&R agents refuse to do the work of talent scouts who discover and develop new artists

In Detroit in the 1960s this record label had popular stars such as the Jackson 5, the Supremes, and Smokey Robinson.

Artists are not legally allowed to bypass label representation

Facebook's launch of the Metaverse was it's most successful creation ever

A misheard song lyric is an example of?

What was wrong with the first sound recording machine?

When did the internet become a mass medium?

What are the top three major music labels?

In the early 20th century, Waterloo, Iowa had an amusement park called "Electric Park"

This person was the first to develop mixing and scratching techniques that became essential to Hip-Hop

The music industry is an example of an Oligopoly

"Sees technology as an independent force that appears out of nowhere and changes everything"

A war on vinyl recoding disks in the late 40s and 50s resulted in a multi-song release record format

ASCAP, BMI, and SEAC are examples of music performance right organizations

What do songwriters and publishers earn every time one of their songs is sold?

This famous artist was inducted into the military during his music career in 1958.

Drugs and money were given to Deejays to promote certain songs on the radio. This is known as the Payola scandals

In-game advertisements are illegal in digital games

This deejay popularized the term rock and roll and played original R&B songs by black artists on the radio

Attractive pieces of furniture were created to hide console audio equipment

Emile Berliner invented the first flat spinning disk. What was the advantage of this invention?

In 1999 the music industry updated the CD format with two new formats, DVD Audio and Super Audio CD's. Which one won?

The first black artist to make a bigger hit by covering a white artists song

The music industry loved the invention of MP3 files in the 1990s

With what invention was the first time in history that communication surpassed the speed of transportation?

This recorded music format currently generates the most money for the music industry

The idea of "selective exposure" in mass communication

This black man became rock and rolls first drag queen and sex symbol for young white girls

What is/are some examples of media as a Metaphor

The record industry was negatively impacted by the arrival of the radio in the 1920s

The Audiotape revolutionized sound recording by enabling sound editing and multitrack recording

Rock and roll artists were shunned by the music industry because they pushed cultural and gender norms

This white performer has been called the "king of cover music"

This rock and roll deejay "tamed" rock and roll by only playing white artists

Who launched ARPAnet in the 1960s?

The Skyscraper Method is a model of culture that is used to show what is high culture and what is low culture

This artist married his teenaged cousin. Creating a bad look for rock and roll

Culture can have many tendencies, both good and bad. One of these tendencies can immediately made culture good or bad.

One of the first games marked the beginning of the digital game industry

What are the five steps of the critical process?

Which device are most digital games played on?

Who was able to get the sound recording machine to work?

What artist rose to fame by using social media, especially TikTok, to promote his music?

Communication is an example of culture

Who was the defender of oral tradition when the written era of communication emerged?

Which of the following are apart of the three major gaming home consoles

CDs now outsell vinyl as the top physical recorded music format

According to the First Amendment, in regards to the freedom of speech and the press, Congress shall...