Social Networks spring review

Question 1

These newspapers encouraged Black Americans in the South to migrate North to cities like Chicago, Pittsburg, and NYC:

Accepted Answer

The Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender.

Question 2

Among the dangers of wartime censorship are (choose all that apply):

Accepted Answer

persecution of dissent, misinformation

Question 3

The famous C18 newspaper image shown here is an example of what? (choose all that apply)

Accepted Answer

propaganda, wood block printing

Question 4

New York Times v. United States was a landmark SCOTUS ruling that the First Amendment overrides government secrecy.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

How did celluloid film and flash devices influence the social and practical uses of photography?

Accepted Answer

They made it lighter, faster, cheaper, and more versatile.

Question 6

Ernie Pyle, Robert Capa, and Marguerite Higgins were war correspondents during WWII

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

"AP" stands for...

Accepted Answer

The Associated Press, a news wire service founded in 1846 in NC (AP.org).

Question 8

Daniel Ellsberg is the whistleblower who...

Accepted Answer

leaked the Pentagon Papers to the NYTimes and WAPost in 1971.

Question 9

Communications media were central to Lenin&#x27;s plan to remake Russia after the 1917 Revolution. Would it be a free press?

Accepted Answer

No way. The Soviet press (Pravda, Isvestia) was entirely state-controlled.

Question 10

A press "pool" is

Accepted Answer

an agreement among competing media to share resources when covering events.

Question 11

The theory that late-capitalist media turn people into obedient consumers, willing victims of exploitation is:

Accepted Answer

The Culture Industry thesis.

Question 12

The U.S. Congress and corporate boardrooms are excellent examples of what Jurgen Habermas meant by the &#x27;public sphere.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

This 1964 SCOTUS ruling expanded press freedom and created protections for journalists who report on public figures.

Accepted Answer

New York Times Company v. Sullivan

Question 14

The "Double V" campaign of WWII called for victory over enemies of civil rights abroad and domestically.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

What type of printmaking were Currier and Ives best known for?

Accepted Answer

Lithography

Question 16

McClure's, Collier's, Harper's, Puck, and Scribner's were some of the most popular magazines of the Gilded Age.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

The three profit centers for newspapers in the C20 were:

Accepted Answer

circulation, display advertising, and classified ads.

Question 18

The fact that concepts are more likely to be remembered when presented as images rather than text is called ___________.

Accepted Answer

the picture superiority effect

Question 19

The Reich Press Law was instrumental in securing Nazi control of Germany in 1933.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Stereotypes are... (answer all that apply)

Accepted Answer

potentially hurtful, false assumptions about a person or group of people., efficient sense-making tools that prevent people from thinking too hard., generalized beliefs about people that are often exaggerated or simply wrong, Mental shortcuts people use to make sense of their social contexts

Question 21

Satyagraha was Mahatma Gandhi&#x27;s concept of democracy and non-violent change, which embraced the freedom of the press.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

The inventor of serial (or sequence) photography was...

Accepted Answer

Eadweard Muybridge

Question 23

Biologist and writer Rachel Carson's 1962 book, Silent Spring

Accepted Answer

helped reignite the environmental movement in the U.S.

Question 24

Matthew Brady was ...

Accepted Answer

the famous photographer best known for documenting the US Civil War.

Question 25

Mass media alone increases the odds that a society will drift politically into either socialism or fascism.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

What are the three technological shifts that revolutionized human communications in the C19? (choose all that apply

Accepted Answer

expansion of the postal service, introduction of the telegraph, development of a national railroad network

Question 27

Who was known in the 1960s, &#x27;70s, and &#x27;80s for creating "Gonzo" journalism?

Accepted Answer

Hunter S. Thompson

Question 28

One of the more important conventions of C20 journalism was the idea of _______ and the ______ form of writing.

Accepted Answer

objectivity / inverted pyramid

Question 29

Among journalists, a "beat" is . . .

Accepted Answer

the topic and or institutions they are assigned to cover.

Question 30

CCD stands for:

Accepted Answer

"charge-coupled device, "the technology that enables digital photography.

Question 31

Historically, the emergence of a new communications media (telegraph, photography, radio, TV, etc.) does not _______

Accepted Answer

replace older media.

Social Networks spring review

Questions 31

Social Networks spring review

Questions 31