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1
Leigh H. Edwards, who believes that family values are shaped by the mass media, points out that the nuclear model of the family that reached its full expression in the context of Victorian-era industrialization and peaked in the postwar 1950s is known to sociologists by the term
A)modern family.
B)postindustrial family.
C)traditional family.
D)postmodern family.
2
Karen Sternheimer, who does not believe family values are shaped by the mass media, cites the sentiments of film critic Michael Medved, who in 1992 wrote that celebrities who have children outside marriage promote
A)an honest reflection of society.
B)illegitimacy chic.
C)dysfunction as the “new function.”
D)part-time parenting.
3
Marcia Landy, who believes that the media unite the population in times of crisis, examines three 2001 film productions about Pearl Harbor (in observance of the sixtieth anniversary of the Japanese attack), saying that all three are emblematic of the process of what Friedrich Nietzsche terms
A)“an irrepressible urge to glorify that which breaks, then makes, us.”
B)“a gossamer web of conditional images and reconstructed recollections.”
C)“the uses and disadvantages of the past for the present moment.”
D)“the inevitability of memory to glorify the most traumatic events of the past.”
4
Michael Eric Dyson, who does not believe the media unite the population in times of crisis, points out that the poorest state in the nation is
A)Mississippi.
B)Louisiana.
C)Missouri.
D)Alabama.
5
Wajahat Ali and his colleagues, who believe the media distort representations of Islam and Arab cultures, report that David Yerushalmi in Middle East Quarterly misinforms America that more than 80 percent of
A)U.S. mosques advocate or promote violence.
B)U.S. Christians fear Muslims in general.
C)Americans would support a ban on the construction of new mosques in the United States.
D)Muslims in the United States are illegal aliens.
6
Gal Beckerman, who does not believe the media distort representations of Islam and Arab cultures, points out that the blogging revolution that first began to spread through America in the late 1990s began with an entry created by a Swarthmore student in January 1994, when what became known as a “blog” was then known as
A)an online diary.
B)a bilateral log.
C)a personal posting.
D)an Internet journal.
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
1Craig 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
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.
12
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.
13
The main source of political campaign news for all Americans, including younger voters, is
A)radio.
B)the Internet.
C)daily newspapers.
D)television.
14
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.
15
The Economist, which believes that evolving forms of journalism will be an improvement, suggests that the “horizontal media” that makes it quick and easy for anyone to share links to news stories means that people collectively can act as
A)journalists.
B)a broadcast network.
C)arbiters of truth.
D)the audience.
16
Alex Jones, who does not believe that evolving forms of journalism will be an improvement, notes that the vast majority of iron-core news comes from
A)television networks.
B)citizens posting on social-network sites.
C)newspapers.
D)independents such as AP or Reuters.
17
Clay Shirky, who believes that social media encourage revolution, says that, politically, access to information is far less important than access to
A)weapons.
B)votes.
C)influence.
D)conversation.
18
Malcolm Gladwell, who does not believe that social media encourage revolution, uses examples of personal involvement by those who joined in the movement for
A)civil rights.
B)ending the Vietnam War.
C)women's suffrage.
D)occupying Wall Street.
19
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.
20
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.
21
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.
22
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.
23
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.
24
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.
25
Greg Kot, who believes that consolidation of the music industry hurt music distribution, sums up his article with a quote from Clear Channel chairman Lowry Mays in 2003; Mays states that Clear Channel is in the business of
A)providing news and information.
B)providing well-researched music.
C)selling products to their customers.
D)returning dividends to the shareholders.
26
Panos Panay, who does not believe that consolidation of the music industry hurt music distribution, argues that the music industry is not so much imploding as
A)consolidating.
B)exploding.
C)retrenching.
D)evolving.
27
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.
28
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.
29
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.
30
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.
31
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.
32
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.
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
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.
38
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.
39
Thomas R. Eddlem, who holds that Citizens United is breaking up corporate dominance of elections, believes that elections in the United States have been dominated by:
A)SuperPACs.
B)old-money conservatives.
C)media empires.
D)foreign oil elites.
40
David Earley and Ian Vandewalker, who do not believe that Citizens United is breaking up corporate dominance of elections, noted that the Citizens United decision endorsed but did not mandate:
A)caps on individual political donations.
B)disclosure requirements.
C)equal time for opposing viewpoints on television.
D)a constitutional amendment confirming the Supreme Court’s decision.





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