Deck 8: Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing As Textual Poaching

Question 1

Alvin Toffler introduced the notion of the ______ in the early 1980s.

A) consumer
B) prosumer
C) producer
D) professional shopper

Answer 1

B

Question 2

As the author states, Jung's anecdote so vividly reminds us, we need another set of protocols: a(n) ______ analysis of the value of Asian American YouTube performances.

A) audience-centered
B) creator-centered
C) global-centered
D) scholar-centered

Answer 2

A

Question 3

From a Foucauldian perspective, people with disabilities live immersed in a ______.

A) constant state of being judged by others
B) pathological discourse of disability, as an object of disciplinary power
C) state of always being separate from the rest of the "normal" world
D) marginalized and seen as something less

Answer 3

B

Question 4

According to the article, a new stage not previously identified was conceptualized and called a ______, where donations, political action, and civil action are promoted and enforced via cyberspace.

A) "demand for change"
B) "call for action"
C) "shift toward movement"
D) none of these

Question 5

By documenting the organizing efforts of GimpGirl Community moderators and their learning experiences over the past decade, we were able to inquire into the connections between ______.

A) online technologies and the capabilities people need to develop and maintain communities
B) digital and real-world communities and the need to develop and maintain contact
C) entertainment and communities and the capabilities corporations need to develop and maintain customers
D) online messages and physical mail and ways that countries need to regulate in order to maintain safety for citizens

Question 6

In many ways, #Gamergate is simply Internet business as usual; much of the vitriol chronicled here is routinely found in other virtual places. Yet, and importantly, #Gamergate made this kind of "ordinary" harassment newsworthy, calling our collective attention to ______.

A) the idea that online spaces are much safer than traditional spaces, with people rarely if ever being abused
B) the abuse people endure in sport games
C) the sustained abuse many people endure in order to participate in online spaces
D) the positivity of online spaces as spaces away from the harassment found in many real day-to-day places

Question 7

Gamergaters' references to war create ______.

A) an exciting metaphor that will both engage people's interest and cause them to think about the situation differently
B) a feeling of intensity to keep the audience's attention
C) an underlying message about the state of our society
D) a narrative framing to set themselves as "the good guys" on a quest for truths

Question 8

As the author describes, the media imperialism argument blurs the distinction between at least four forms of power. Which of the following is not one of the four discussed?

A) economic
B) cultural
C) coercive
D) psychological

Question 9

As discussed in the article, while users are unable to build their own structures or objects to insert in the world--machinima allows users to extend its representational or narrative space, creating scenarios that are ______.

A) falsely new because they depict activities or behaviors that are not unique to the space of that game
B) genuinely new because consumers can depict actions that they cannot do in real life without causing lasting repercussions
C) genuinely new because they depict activities or behaviors impossible in the space of the game
D) not new at all, as players have likely experienced similar activities in other games

Question 10

What criteria does the author mean when she says that "no multiplayer social game could meet that criterion at all times"?

A) Games must be mostly or partially free for all players at all times but can charge if players want to spend money on specialty content.
B) Games must be entirely free of racist discourse in order to be culturally important or socially productive, in short, to be "good."
C) Games must be completely free of visually disturbing imagery and content.
D) Games must limit the amount of violence and must always keep their content appropriate for all audiences.

Question 11

"Authenticity" is a social construct that is ultimately ______.

A) always relative and context dependent
B) always false
C) either true or false depending on the context and intended audience
D) only true to the receiver and not relevant to the sender

Question 12

As the article details, massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMOs) such as World of Warcraft (WoW), Lineage II, and Everquest are immensely profitable, skillfully designed, immersive, and beautifully detailed virtual worlds that enable both exciting gameplay and ______.

A) the creation of real-time digitally embodied communities
B) cool characters that you can relate to in the real world
C) the creation of complex social experiments that can influence how people think about games
D) complex economies that can teach players about real-world finances

Question 13

In his online essay "How New Media Gave Me a Voice," Jung narrates familiar tales for Asian Americans--the perpetual mispronunciation of one's name, the attempt to cultivate a love for genres of Whiteness, and the lack of "role models" or "words" to articulate one's self--in order to capture the paradoxical feelings of Asian America ______.

A) cultural representation in media and the feeling of inauthenticity
B) governmental criminalization and wanting to feel wanted
C) social rejection and the feeling of not belonging
D) cultural alienation and the desire to belong

Question 14

According to the author, gossip websites, fan sites, and blogs provide a plethora of new locations for ______.

A) people to vent frustrations and ideologies
B) the circulation and creation of celebrity
C) creating new online threats
D) the reinvention of community forums and discourse

Question 15

______ is the means for Facebook's economic ends. Facebook permanently monitors users for economic ends, which means that no economic privacy is guaranteed to them.

A) Premium social media
B) Sponsored content
C) Data surveillance
D) Web-based advertising

Question 16

Historically, game companies have imagined an audience filled with ______.

A) young, White, and heterosexual males
B) young and multiethnic males
C) White males of all ages
D) young, White men and women

Question 17

Grassroots convergence serves the needs of both ______.

A) urban and suburban
B) national and global
C) statewide and countrywide
D) cosmopolitan and local

Question 18

The authors mention a consistent theme throughout this inquiry, which is the notion of being doubly marginalized: In their story, living as ______.

A) veterans and people of color
B) undocumented immigrants and as women
C) women and as individuals with disabilities
D) gay and as people of color

Question 19

As the author details, a successful tactic utilized by the cyberspace movement is ______.

A) the application of cyberattacks to alter private information
B) the alteration of digital avatars to enhance people's online experience
C) the invitation to engage in political action by contacting politicians
D) the presentation of cultural norms to social groups

Question 20

As the article specifies, networked media is ______.

A) changing sports culture, the ways that people relate to sports images, and how athletes are produced
B) altering the scientific culture, the ways that people relate to scientific news, how research is produced, and how science is practiced
C) changing celebrity culture, the ways that people relate to celebrity images, how celebrities are produced, and how celebrity is practiced
D) causing people to become reliant on network news for their information and ideas

Question 21

In considerations of the use of ______ to articulate shared interests and mobilize political action, the recent history of its role in antiauthoritarian movements throughout the Middle East and Africa looms large.

A) physical "snail" mail
B) social media
C) digital e-mail
D) live community forums

Question 22

According to authors, prior research demonstrates that people of color are not commonly perceived as a possible threat to society and that Latino immigrants are not an exception.

Question 23

As explained in the article, Wilson's characterization of himself as a child and of Brown as ______ became part of an exculpatory narrative in which the unarmed teenager was framed as the true threat, not the police officer who shot and killed him.

A) a deranged youth
B) a dangerous criminal
C) an easily angered man
D) a superhuman monster

Question 24

The article talks about two forces--the top-down push of corporate convergence and the bottom-up pull of grassroots convergence. These forces intersect to produce what might be called global convergence, the unidirectional flow of consumer goods around the country.

Question 25

What is machinima?

Question 26

The death of Michael Brown quickly captured the imagination of thousands across and beyond the United States. Protesters from around the nation flocked to Ferguson to participate in demonstrations calling for ______.

A) the officer to be released and the charges be dropped
B) Michael Brown to be officially recognized as a civil rights figure
C) the arrest of the officer responsible for the fatal shooting
D) the entire police department to be held responsible for the death of Michael Brown

Question 27

In the registers of emotion and affect, Asian American youth also work through and against the specter of the model minority as a prescriptive racial fiction. Throughout its popular cultural history, Asian America has propagated the "grander passions" of anger, rage, and shame.

Question 28

What is the difference and tension between corporate convergence and grassroots convergence?

Question 29

How does hashtag activism distinguish itself from "real" activism?

Question 30

Toffler describes the age of prosumption as the arrival of a new form of political and capitalistic autocracy, class-determined work, power-dependent labor, centralized production, and government-focused production.