Deck 6: Media in Everyday Life

Question 1

The ____________ is a platform for multiple functions previously consigned to different industry areas and different genres of consumption and use.

A) video game
B) movie theater
C) personal computer
D) cloud

Answer 1

C

Question 2

In 1980s France, the term "____________" was used to describe propertyless industrial wage earners who emerged as a class distinct from both the landless agricultural worker and the bourgeois.

A) proletariat
B) the masses
C) peasant
D) bourgeoisie

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The term "____________" revealed the economic and social lines connecting industries that were then understood to be separate (e.g., film and television) with manufacturing industries and practices.

A) mass culture
B) spectacle
C) culture industry
D) mass media

Answer 3

C

Question 4

____________ was a group of British scholars who refused to write off popular or mass culture as debased forms reflecting dominant interests.

A) The Situationists International
B) The Birmingham School
C) The Frankfurt School
D) The Yes Men

Question 5

Twenty years after the phase-out of the "local" programming model, the emergent cable programming industry introduced a(n) ____________ model, which consisted of identifying small niche groups not fully served by or satisfied with mass programming.

A) lassez-faire
B) independent
C) narrow-casting
D) individual choice

Question 6

A ____________ is a space-a physical place, social setting, or media arena-in which citizens come together to debate and discuss the pressing issues of their society.

A) counterpublic
B) public sphere
C) national audience
D) network society

Question 7

____________ is one of the primary ways that the media's democratic potential can be seen today.

A) Citizen journalism
B) The development of a feminist countersphere
C) The public sphere
D) Bricolage using Western media

Question 8

____________ is made possible through the use of vast energy-consuming physical servers spanning multiple geographical sites.

A) ARPANET
B) OTA television
C) A network society
D) The cloud

Question 9

____________ theorized that people mediate the city by engaging its built forms and objects in practical and offhand ways, often outside of and against intended actions.

A) Anne Friedberg
B) Jean Cassou
C) John Caugey
D) Michel de Certeau

Question 10

Richard Hoggart challenged the ____________ on which Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer based much of their work.

A) neoliberalist ideologies
B) dichotomy between mass and elite culture
C) desire for middle-class lifestyles
D) resistance to spectacle

Question 11

In 1995, Nestor Canclini proposed that we should observe the engagement of ____________ with Western media and cultural processes in ways that are complexly mixed and not simply reproductions of the processes and structures of the dominant industry and its economy.

A) Africans
B) immigrants
C) Latin Americans
D) South Asians

Question 12

Which belief have scholars linked to the rise of neoliberalism?

A) The media industry must serve individual groups in ways that acknowledge their unique specificity.
B) While people want to reap the benefits of high speed, wireless Internet, they do not want to see the physical infrastructure that allows for its existence.
C) The laboring class, which largely remained uneducated due to a class society that reserved college for the upper classes until later in the twentieth century, has been targeted by the mass media industry.
D) All that was once directly lived has become mere representation, and everyday life experiences are now dominated by the logic of the spectacle.

Question 13

Black Lives Matter's curation of images on social media beyond those provided by police and the press is explicitly about ____________.

A) connecting people to geographically distant communities
B) the right to look
C) creating a networked sphere
D) narrowcasting

Question 14

When do we see media infrastructure that is otherwise kept hidden?

A) when it is disrupted
B) when it is accidentally captured on Google Maps
C) when it works smoothly
D) when citizens discuss it in public spaces

Question 15

While Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union, Socialist Realism was the only approved artistic style in the country. Socialist Realism glorified the state through realistic paintings of happy, healthy Soviet workers. Stalin condemned other views and styles critical of state ideology. Those who continued to make non-Socialist Realist works were questioned, persecuted, imprisoned, and sent to work camps. Similarly, ____________ enforced policies in the United States that punished those with views deemed progressive or critical of the media industry's political and economic basis.

A) Herbert Marcuse
B) Joe McCarthy
C) Orson Welles
D) Richard Hoggart

Question 16

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling in a presidential motorcade through downtown Dallas. While the assassination itself was not broadcast live, news of JFK's death was immediately transmitted nationally via television, radio, and word of mouth. Many Americans alive in 1963 remember where they were when JFK was shot, stories they will often share. The immediate dissemination of JFK's murder created the sense of ____________ that bonds those with stories to each other and makes them feel as though they are part of a national community.

A) neoliberalism
B) collectivity
C) simultaneity
D) homogeneity

Question 17

Byron Kim's Synecdoche is an ongoing project in which he paints small portraits of the skin color of his subjects. All images are square and presented in a grid. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego commissioned Kim to create a grid of portraits of the Board of Trustee's skin, resulting in a collective image that was more light than dark. By exposing that which is usually unseen, Kim's piece for MCASD is most similar to whose work?

A) Delfina Ruiz
B) Trevor Paglen
C) Maxim Pozdorovkin
D) Leni Riefenstahl

Question 18

In 2016, years after requesting them, Rodney Barnette, a former Black Panther, received the 500 pages documenting his surveillance by the FBI. In 2017, Barnette's daughter, Sadie Barnette, lined the walls of Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York with photocopies of his file for her first solo show, Do Not Destroy. While many of the pages were treated with paint, glitter, and/or rhinestones, most were legible, the information kept secret for so long finally made public. Whose theorization of social movements' use of images does Do Not Destroy reflect?

A) Shunya Yoshimi
B) Marshall McLuhan
C) Joan Donovan
D) Nicholas Mirzoeff

Question 19

Wayne's World (1992), directed by Penelope Spheeris, is a comedic film about Wayne Campbell and his best friend Garth Algar, who host a public-access television show-Wayne's World-from Wayne's parents' basement. A producer who has recently purchased their show in a lucrative deal for Wayne and Garth reminds Wayne that a condition of his contract is to promote a local arcade chain on the show. In this scene shot at a snack table, Wayne responds with statements like "Contract or no, I will not bow to any sponsor," while lifting up a box of Pizza Hut pizza and taking out a slice as he smiles at the audience. Which theorist would be most interested in this satire of capitalism in general and product placement in particular?

A) Stuart Hall
B) John Fiske
C) Theodor Adorno
D) Guy Debord

Question 20

The 2015 Paris terrorist attacks were the first non-natural disaster event for which Facebook implemented Safety Check, a feature that was controversially not activated for suicide bombings in Beirut earlier that week or in Syria, where in 2015 alone, there were 55,219 civil war casualties. That Facebook first considered using Safety Check in response to an attack on European soil rather than an exponentially larger crisis in the Middle East is an example of the flaw in the concept of ____________.

A) the global village
B) a common public
C) an imagined political community
D) new politics being produced by new conditions

Question 21

Why did Henry Luce call the twentieth century the "American Century"?

Question 22

How has Twitter affected the relationship between consumers and the media?

Question 23

What was John McMurria's response to cable's apparent expansion of choice in the 2000s?

Question 24

How have contemporary scholars critiqued Jürgen Habermas's idea that modern society has within it the potential for an ideal public sphere?

Question 25

What did the Yes Men do at the Homeland Security Congress, and what point did their actions prove?

Question 26

Describe the ways in which the Black Lives Matter movement harnessed social media's potential to protest and engender change.