Question 1

Impediments to communication that occur before a message reaches a receiver are called _______.

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Question 2

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column.
-Johannes Gutenberg

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Johannes Gutenberg is credited with the invention of the printing press using movable metal type around 1440, revolutionizing the way books were made and information was disseminated.

Question 3

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column.
-Frederick Ives

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Frederick Ives is credited with inventing the halftone process, which allowed for photographs to be reproduced in print using dots of varying sizes to represent light and dark areas, revolutionizing the inclusion of images in newspapers, books, and other printed materials.

Question 4

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column.
-Philo Farnsworth

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Philo Farnsworth is credited with inventing the first all-electronic television system.

Question 5

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column.
-Samuel Morse

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Samuel Morse is best known for his invention of the telegraph and the Morse code, a system of transmitting textual information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.

Question 6

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column.
-Guglielmo Marconi

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Guglielmo Marconi is credited with the invention of the first practical system of wireless telegraphy, later known as radio, which is why the correct match is "C) Wireless messages."

Question 7

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column.
-Emile Berliner

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Emile Berliner is credited with inventing the gramophone and the flat disc record, which are thermoplastic disks for playing recorded sound.

Question 8

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column.
-Lumiere Brothers

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The Lumiere Brothers are credited with inventing the movie projector and opening the first movie house.

Question 9

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column.
-Omar Mergenthaler

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Omar Mergenthaler is best known for inventing the Linotype typesetting machine, which revolutionized the printing industry by significantly speeding up the process of setting type for newspapers and books.

Question 10

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column.
-William Dickson

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William Dickson is credited with inventing the first movie camera.

Question 11

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column.
-Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and the World Wide Web, which revolutionized how information is shared and accessed on the internet.

Question 12

Discuss the four primary technologies on which mass media have been built and identify at least one mass medium based on each of these technologies.

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Question 13

Discuss at least threeways Gutenberg's invention of metal movable type impacted society.

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Question 14

Explain why photography and movies were considered chemical technologies throughout most of their history. What has happened to them in the last few decades to change that and make them less dependent on chemical technology.

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Question 15

Television and movies both show moving images to viewers, but they do it using very different technologies. Describe and explain the differences between the way television captures and presents images and the way movies do.

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Question 16

Start by sketching Hiebert, Ungurait, and Bohn's model of mass communication and correctly label at least four of its eight concentric circles. Explain what the model is meant to show happening between its center and the outer-most circle.

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Question 17

Discuss the difference between gatekeepers and regulators and describe the kinds of impact they can have on mass communication. Provide at least two examples of each.

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Question 18

Explain the differences between linear communication, mass communication and web communication. (This may but does not have to include sketches of the three models.) Describe at least one example of each.

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Quiz 2: Media Technology

Impediments to communication that occur before a message reaches a receiver are called _______.

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column. -Johannes Gutenberg

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column. -Frederick Ives

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column. -Philo Farnsworth

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column. -Samuel Morse

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column. -Guglielmo Marconi

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column. -Emile Berliner

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column. -Lumiere Brothers

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column. -Omar Mergenthaler

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column. -William Dickson

Please match each inventor/innovator in the left column with his invention/innovation in the right column. -Tim Berners-Lee