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1
Herbert Schiller, who believes that American values are shaped by the mass media, says that media help to perpetuate the unequal distribution of power inherent in a capitalistic economic system in all of the following ways, except:
A)showing the aggressive, unchanging aspects of human nature.
B)showcasing only the positive aspects of Corporate America on the business pages and in TV news content.
C)convincing readers/viewers/listeners that multiple media outlets offer a diversity of content.
D)arguing that media institutions are objective providers of information.
2
James W. Carey, who does not believe that American values are shaped by the mass media, states that the ritual view of communication:
A)has dominated the traditional approach to American scholarship.
B)has not been a dominant motif in American scholarship.
C)is a hopelessly beaten dead horse.
D)reinforces our concept of culture as a core notion in American social thought.
3
Rob Boston, who examines a number of incidents involving those who believe that Harry Potter books are harmful for children, reports that Robert Fichthorn, captain of the Penryn Fire Police (a group of volunteers who refused to assist the YMCA because the YMCA allows children to read Harry Potter books in its after-school program), was featured in the Denver Post as:
A)Fool of the Day.
B)Hero of the Week.
C)Doofus of the Month.
D)Good Guy of the Year.
4
Lana A. Whited and M. Katherine Grimes, who do not believe that Harry Potter books are harmful for children, base their analyses on the work of Lawrence Kohlberg, a Harvard professor who developed a scheme of moral maturation with three levels, including all of the following, except:
A)Preconventional.
B)Conventional.
C)Counterconventional.
D)Postconventional.
5
Gal Beckerman, who believes that media represent realistic images of Arabs, observes that, for a few years now, the Arab blogosphere has been growing:
A)but only in isolated, liberal communities.
B)despite its one-sided messages.
C)though not at a particularly quick pace.
D)at record speed.
6
Jack G. Shaheen, who does not believe that media represent realistic images of Arabs, points out that since its birth, the filmmaking industry has delivered the erroneous message that, by definition, Arabs are:
A)terrorists.
B)savages.
C)Muslims.
D)mystics.
7
Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs, who believe that media cause individuals to develop negative body images, conduct an analysis of men’s-fitness media texts, for which they introduce the concept of:
A)subjective-aspects-within-being-as-object.
B)objective-aspects-within-being-as-subject.
C)subjective objectivism.
D)objective subjectivism.
8
Michael P. Levine and Sarah K. Murnen, who do not believe that media cause individuals to develop negative body images, say the idea that "women are ‘naturally’ invested in their beauty assets and thus beauty is a woman’s principal project in life" is one of the themes that make up a female’s:
A)thinness schema.
B)confidence matrix.
C)identification structure.
D)looking-glass image.
9
Craig A. Anderson, who believes that video games encourage violent behavior, points out that converging evidence of media violence effects have been provided for several decades through four types of media violence studies, including all of the following, except:
A)latitudinal studies.
B)field experiments.
C)laboratory experiments.
D)cross-sectional correlation studies.
10
Henry Jenkins, who does not believe that video games encourage violent behavior, tells us that on April 19, 2002, U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr., ruled that video games do not convey ideas and thus:
A)are neither harmful nor harmless.
B)enjoy no constitutional protection.
C)are simply entertainment.
D)have no relevance in a courtroom proceeding.
11
The first copyright law in England was established:
A)once the American colonies had declared independence.
B)with the establishment of universal, free public education.
C)once novels became popular entertainments.
D)soon after the invention of the printing press.
12
Digital technology led to the crumbling of the foundation of the old copyright law, as it made copying:
A)virtually instantaneous.
B)possible with no signal degradation.
C)a global phenomenon.
D)entirely anonymous.
13
John E. Calfee says that the type of advertising that provides the greatest good to consumers is:
A)price advertising.
B)brand-comparison advertising.
C)industry-information advertising.
D)product-specific advertising.
14
Dinyar Godrej maintains that advertising creates a subtle cultural shift that leads to:
A)environmental degradation from the production of consumer goods.
B)an apolitical public sphere.
C)desires for items that only the wealthy can obtain.
D)a decline in close family ties.
15
Michael Schudson, who believes that media can regain public trust, suggests that the power of the press to afflict the comfortable mostly derives from the journalistic equivalent of:
A)ambulance-chasing.
B)filibustering.
C)gerrymandering.
D)chasing the perennial red herring.
16
John Hockenberry, who does not believe that media can regain public trust, recalls that the culmination of Dateline NBC‘s Internet journalism strategy was “the highly rated pile of programming debris” called:
A)Party of Crime.
B)To Catch a Predator.
C)Click Here.
D)Grand Theft Identity.
17
The main source of political campaign news for all Americans, including younger voters, is:
A)radio.
B)the Internet.
C)daily newspapers.
D)television.
18
A recent study has found that the Americans with the greatest knowledge of political campaigns and their issues are those who access all of the following sources of information except:
A)commercial talk radio.
B)the Internet.
C)newsmagazines.
D)National Public Radio.
19
Mark Deuze et al., who believe that evolving forms of journalism will be an improvement, see that the two-tiered developments of participatory news are part of a process of convergence between:
A)journalism and commercialism.
B)the once-ignored and the now-craved.
C)the nose for news and the ear for news.
D)top-down and bottom-up journalisms.
20
David Simon, who does not believe that evolving forms of journalism will be an improvement, identifies himself as a newspaperman from the day he signed up at his high school paper until the day, 18 years later, when he took a buyout from the Baltimore Sun and left for the:
A)oil fields of Texas.
B)halls of academia in Princeton, New Jersey.
C)farmlands of Iowa.
D)fleshpots of Hollywood.
21
A twentieth-century Supreme Court decision determined that free-speech rights are not absolute when the words used:
A)are demonstrably false.
B)are detrimental to national security.
C)may present a clear and present danger to listeners.
D)attack stated U.S. policies and therefore may be considered unpatriotic.
22
Many members of the public are willing to accept restrictions on the freedom of the press in order to:
A)protect vulnerable populations, such as children.
B)ensure that the overall right is not challenged.
C)safeguard their religious beliefs.
D)avoid thinking about troublesome realities.
23
Henry A. Giroux, who believes that hate speech in the media directly affects our culture, says that many individuals and groups increasingly find themselves living in a society that measures the worth of human life in terms of:
A)brawn versus brain.
B)gang-mentality affiliation.
C)cost-benefit analyses.
D)cyber-worthiness.
24
Georgie Ann Weatherby and Brian Scoggins, who do not believe that hate speech in the media directly affects our culture, note that the history of white supremacist groups on the Internet began in 1983 when George Dietz put up a computer bulletin-board system named:
A)Independence Hall.
B)Liberty Bell.
C)Minuteman.
D)Sons of Liberty.
25
Rhoda Rabkin, who believes that industry regulation has controlled indecent media content, is satisfied that children are shielded from indecent content through:
A)voluntary ratings systems.
B)legislation.
C)the efforts of FCC watchdogs.
D)parental activism.
26
Karen E. Dill and Lisa Fager Bediako, who do not believe that industry regulation has controlled indecent media content, reports that the average American child devotes 45 hours per week to:
A)homework.
B)school and after-school activities.
C)media consumption.
D)face-to-face socialization.
27
With the development of the Internet, the primary concern of the Recording Industry Association of America was how the potential for downloading music would:
A)impact radio listening.
B)hurt their recording artists.
C)affect the sale of records and CDs.
D)enable new talent to gain recognition without industry representation.
28
The most common defense put forth by individuals who download music for free in violation of copyright is that:
A)they are students and have no money.
B)everyone else is doing it.
C)no one is interested in an entire album or the liner notes.
D)they plan to purchase the album at some later point.
29
Clay Shirky, who believes that newspapers should shut down their presses, points to a core, but flawed, assumption throughout the 1990s that the organizational form of the newspaper was basically sound and that all it needed was:
A)an aggressive readership campaign.
B)a digital facelift.
C)new-age journalism.
D)fresh commercial sponsorship.
30
Paul Farhi, who does not believe that newspapers should shut down their presses, cites a prediction of Philip Meyer (a professor studying the newspaper industry for some 30 years), who has nailed the time of the last daily newspaper to be:
A)October 2044.
B)early summer 2056.
C)December 31, 2099.
D)Christmas Day 2121.
31
Chris Anderson, who believes that new business models result in greater consumer choice in products and ideas, tells us that the reason we have long been suffering the tyranny of lowest-common-denominator fare is
A)intimidation.
B)economics.
C)lack of information.
D)indifference.
32
Kathryn C. Montgomery, who does not believe that new business models result in greater consumer choice in products and ideas, reports that media researchers have found that individual teenagers are customizing their own:
A)media-rating systems.
B)commercial-free viewing portfolios.
C)sexual-media diets.
D)media-critiquing networks.
33
Penny A. Leisring, who believes that online services are responsible for an increase in bullying and harassment, claims that cyberstalking is common, especially:
A)in the workplace.
B)through the home computers of high schoolers.
C)via Facebook.
D)among college students.
34
Amanda Lenhart, who does not believe that online services are responsible for an increase in bullying and harassment, tells us that when 935 teens surveyed by Pew were asked where they thought bullying happened most often to teens their age, the majority (67 percent) said that bullying and harassment happen more:
A)in school than in any other place.
B)on school buses than in any other place.
C)online than offline.
D)offline than online.
35
Linda A. Jackson et al., who believe that people are better informed in the information society, notes that after reviewing dozens of studies of school learning with computer-based technology, Roschelle and colleagues came to the conclusion that:
A)the findings are inconclusive.
B)computer-driven learning levels the playing field.
C)teachers are ill-prepared for their computer-savvy students.
D)computers in the classroom do not enhance the academic experience.
36
Mark Bauerlein, who does not believe that people are better informed in the information society, makes note of students who tackle assignments as if they are "doing the dishes," students for whom after-school hours have come to mean:
A)video games.
B)hanging out.
C)sports.
D)homework.
37
David T. Z. Mindich, who believes that youth are indifferent to news and politics, cites in support of his view that only about nine percent of Americans 18 to 34 years old knew which presidential candidate:
A)sponsored campaign-finance reform.
B)had served in the military.
C)picked Sarah Palin as his running mate.
D)supported same-sex marriage.
38
The Pew Internet and American Life Project, which does not believe that youth are indifferent to news and politics, states that among those under 30, those most likely to make political use of a social networking cite are:
A)blue-collar workers.
B)from two-parent households.
C)students.
D)female.
39
Neil Swidey, who believes that online communication does compromise the rights of the individual when information is “anonymous,” reports that moderators at the Boston Globe‘s website focus on evaluating:
A)all posts.
B)only posts from anonymous posters.
C)abuse reports that commenters file against one another.
D)posts with certain key words that trigger an automatic flagging system
40
Ian Lloyd, who does not believe that online communication compromises the rights of the individual when information is "anonymous," asserts that anonymity may provide a sturdier basis for the protection of individual rights and freedoms than the concept of:
A)libel.
B)property.
C)freedom of speech.
D)privacy.





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