Deck 15: Global Media in the Digital Age

Question 1

What delivered news in Europe through the early nineteenth century before being superseded by the invention of the electric telegraph?

A) Greyhound dogs
B) Trains
C) Pigeons
D) Long-distance runners

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which theory of international mass communication can be described as the oldest system, extending back to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England?

A) Social responsibility theory
B) Authoritarian theory
C) Libertarian theory
D) Soviet theory

Answer 2

B

Question 3

How much has Internet penetration in Asia grown since the year 2000?

A) 1,100 percent
B) 7,000 percent
C) 3,300 percent
D) 450 percent

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Larger quality-of-life issues such as access to clean water, healthcare, and free education frame the debate about what important topic?

A) Immigration
B) The digital divide
C) Sexual harassment
D) Same-sex marriage equality

Question 5

The global reach of media giants and their ability to promote their programming in foreign markets raises the issue of __________.

A) media literacy
B) Internet penetration
C) telecommunications laws
D) cultural imperialism

Question 6

A problem with local programming in countries without the resources for lavish productions is that such programming __________.

A) lacks ethnic diversity
B) looks visually amateurish
C) broadcasts largely in black and white
D) uses only local talent

Question 7

Jillian been assigned the debate position of opposing greater tax cuts for the rich in an upcoming forensics competition. Which of the following theoretical concepts would be most relevant to her debate research and argument?

A) Framing
B) Agenda setting
C) Hegemony
D) Consolidation

Question 8

Global media production and viewership in the entertainment and sports realms have grown dramatically in the digital age as __________ costs have gone down, while __________ possibilities have increased.

A) production/distribution
B) production/advertising
C) distributing/promotion
D) union salary/advertising

Question 9

Because of its global reach and impact, media convergence has the potential to provide access to diverse ideas, customs, and behaviors, but it can also encourage increased cultural __________, particularly given the common ownership of various media types.

A) heterodoxy
B) homodoxy
C) heterogeneity
D) homogeneity

Question 10

Contemporary __________ that allows authors to self-publish and sell their works can disempower companies that have traditionally controlled these processes.

A) copyright law
B) digital technology
C) interactivity
D) distributed computing

Question 11

Which company became a digital media leader in 2013 as a result of its horizontally integrated distribution system that branched out to deliver diverse forms of media content, including books, newspapers, and magazines?

A) Amazon.com
B) YouTube
C) iTunes
D) Google+

Question 12

Emerging in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Europe, the __________ was a new societal class that recognized the differing economic and political interests of business, government, and citizens.

A) proletariat
B) aristocracy
C) trade unions
D) bourgeoisie

Question 13

Canadian legislation requires that __________ percent of the content on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the national public radio and television broadcaster, be Canadian content.

A) 25
B) 40
C) 50
D) 80

Question 14

What is CanCon?

A) Canadian content created primarily by Canadian talent
B) A group of Canadian hackers
C) A Comic-Con conference held annually in Canada
D) A Canadian conference for Canadian studies scholars

Question 15

Research shows that Western news agencies historically produce as much as __________ percent of the news distributed globally.

A) 15
B) 40
C) 65
D) 80

Question 16

In January 2015, the editorial offices of which French magazine were attacked by terrorists angry about a cartoon that satirized the Islamic prophet Muhammad?

A) Elle
B) Charlie Hebdo
C) Paris Match
D) Le Point

Question 17

You are researching a country in political turmoil whose government was recently overthrown in a military coup. Which theory of international mass communication would be most relevant to your project?

A) Libertarian
B) Developing
C) Revolutionary
D) Authoritarian

Question 18

A fundamental tension, according to Freud, stems from the instinctive desire of the individual for freedom that conflicts with civilization's inherent need for order imposed through __________.

A) convergence
B) social conformity
C) correlation
D) surveillance

Question 19

Backlash against American foreign policy sometimes takes the form of __________, specifically, __________.

A) cybercrime/online pornography
B) cybercrime/hacking
C) white-collar crime/identity theft
D) white-collar crime/money laundering

Question 20

Which country in Asia is particularly successful at protecting the interests of Bollywood, a film industry that promotes indigenous culture and traditions?

A) Indonesia
B) India
C) Japan
D) China

Question 21

Print media are often used to foster business development in a region, although their effectiveness is limited in countries with __________.

A) restricted WiFi access
B) low literacy rates
C) residents who all speak the same language
D) high capacity FM

Question 22

Through such video-sharing sites as __________, the Web has expanded the horizons of many viewers and media users across the world.

A) Google+
B) Facebook
C) YouTube
D) Reddit

Question 23

Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm, has identified which of the following as one of the greatest challenges currently confronting Hollywood?

A) the globalization of audiences
B) media hegemony
C) media oligarchies
D) Reality TV

Question 24

In the mid 1970s, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) led a global examination of __________ around the world.

A) cultural imperialism
B) Internet penetration
C) news flow and media entertainment
D) media monopolies

Question 25

UNESCO's research yielded the acronym NWICO, which stands for __________.

A) Northern World Industrial Complex Organization
B) New World Information and Communication Order
C) Nanotechnology World Impact and Chronic Overexposure
D) New World Impact and Conversion Organization

Question 26

Advances in digital technology since the 1970s have altered the debate about intercultural communication, regional coexistence, and the relative __________ of the developed world.

A) interactivity
B) dominance
C) infrastructure
D) epistemology

Question 27

In 2012, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) financed the launch of __________.

A) the first community radio station in Malaysia
B) the first Creole television channel in Haiti
C) multi-channel satellite television in Nigeria
D) online video distribution in Uganda

Question 28

The Doha Film Institute in the Middle East receives arts funding from the government of Qatar, with financial support from the Qatar Foundation. Which of the following media companies is also based in Qatar?

A) Middle East ESPN
B) Ramattan
C) Al Jazeera
D) Sahara Press Service

Question 29

Media convergence continues to bring people and countries closer together and in doing so produces new challenges, such as those related to __________.

A) climate change
B) global national security
C) world hunger
D) human rights transgressions

Question 30

Cyberterrorism operates on a global level. For example, one of the suspects in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings had allegedly accessed materials from which organization?

A) Boko Haram
B) Al Qaeda
C) Hamas
D) Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Question 31

The U.S. Commerce Department is working with technology and media companies to develop rules and protocols for sharing online-threat information with the government as well as __________.

A) drone technology
B) surveillance programs
C) strategies for cyberdefense
D) a nuclear defense shield

Question 32

In the twenty-first century, several U.S. media corporations have built global media empires, a development that has transformed our international media landscape and is commonly referred to as __________.

A) circulation
B) globalization
C) consolidation
D) monopolization

Question 33

Democratic socialist theory is most applicable to which of the following countries?

A) Sweden
B) Italy
C) Canada
D) Brazil

Question 34

Which theory addresses situations where criticism of governmental policies is encouraged and the import and export of media messages across national borders unrestricted?

A) Authoritarian
B) Social responsibility
C) Developmental
D) Libertarian

Question 35

Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci has written extensively on which theoretical concept?

A) The public sphere
B) Media hegemony
C) Cultivation analysis
D) Positivism

Question 36

Countries such as __________ have become sources for developers of relatively cheap software and computer-programming workers, as well as database centers.

A) South Korea
B) Taiwan
C) India
D) Brazil

Question 37

Your favorite news source does more than simply report the facts. It places them in context and provides analysis, explanation, and interpretation of events. This approach is most consistent with which theory of international mass communication?

A) Libertarian
B) Developmental
C) Social responsibility
D) Media literacy

Question 38

Which of the following assertions about Soviet theory is correct?

A) Government censorship is the norm in Soviet theory.
B) Soviet theory asserts that the media should recognize their responsibility to the people and self-regulate their content.
C) With the demise of the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Soviet theory is no longer useful.
D) Soviet theory is most similar to Libertarian theory.

Question 39

The blockbuster film Iron Man 3 was co-produced in China by __________ and China's DMG Entertainment Group.

A) Miramax
B) Pixar
C) the Walt Disney Company
D) Amblin Entertainment

Question 40

Who was one of the creators of YouTube?

A) Jack Dorsey
B) Steve Jobs
C) Yu Suzuki
D) Jawed Karim

Question 41

Although Daria has broadband, high-speed, wireless, and mobile Internet access, she lacks the critical-thinking skills to discern high-quality information and employ it for meaningful purposes. This scenario illustrates that there are two components to the digital divide: __________ and __________.

A) technological/educational
B) practical/academic
C) accessible/aesthetic
D) socioeconomic/political

Question 42

Which top grossing Indian film has made over $110 million worldwide in box office receipts, only half of which were generated domestically in India?

A) The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
B) Slumdog Millionaire
C) PK
D) Chennai Express

Question 43

Which of the following Asian countries blocks citizens' access to a wide range of websites and has a history of presenting difficult ethical choices for media organizations that, like Google and Yahoo, have elected to do business there?

A) Taiwan
B) China
C) Japan
D) South Korea

Question 44

Which scholars outlined four theories of international mass communication that are still relevant today but now seen as ideal rather than exact models for twenty-first-century media?

A) McLuhan, Carey, and Innis
B) Gramsci, Marx, and Habermas
C) Siebert, Schramm, and Peterson
D) Eco, Barthes, and de Saussure

Question 45

The digital innovation of YouTube was a collaborative effort of young people disillusioned by the __________.

A) hegemony of media monopolies
B) expansion of cultural imperialism
C) dangers of cyberterrorism
D) universal difficulty of sharing video online

Question 46

French political historian Alexis de Tocqueville referred to a situation in which governmental laws and policies benefit the majority of individuals in a community without concern for the welfare or rights of minority groups and individuals as _________.

A) the tyranny of the majority
B) social constructionism
C) laissez-faire politics
D) lèse majesté

Question 47

Which theoretical concept is most relevant to the study of LGBTQ communities?

A) Cultural imperialism
B) Counterpublics
C) Mean-world syndrome
D) Integrated communications

Question 48

Which news organization has established itself as a global leader in investigative journalism, breaking both the story of widespread NSA digital surveillance and the alleged sexual gropings of Donald Trump?

A) The Guardian
B) The New York Times
C) CNN
D) The Globe and Mail

Question 49

In which country do over 90 percent of the residents have Internet access?

A) Austria
B) Russia
C) Norway
D) India

Question 50

Briefly describe how the growth of the Internet has affected the distribution and ownership of mass-communication media and how governments have viewed media globalization.

Question 51

What kinds of restrictions, and punishments for failing to respect restrictions, do authoritarian governments impose on the mass media in their respective countries?

Question 52

What kinds of measures do countries employ to counterbalance the Western, typically American, domination of the global flow of news and entertainment?

Question 53

What factors hinder IT (information technology) growth in developing countries?

Question 54

What fundamental question defines the debate about media convergence in the age of globalization?

Question 55

Who is Edward Snowden, and what questions did his controversial activities raise in an era defined by both digital communications and international terrorism?

Question 56

Describe the pros and cons of the international coproduction of movies and television.

Question 57

Explain the success and accomplishments of Al Jazeera as an international news organization.

Question 58

Describe the challenges of cybersecurity in the contemporary media landscape, providing examples of threats to national security.

Question 59

Express in your own words what "the public" and the "public sphere" mean. Who were the bourgeoisie and how were they related to the concepts of "the public" and "the public sphere"?