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Mass Media Ch. 15
Mass Media Chapter 15 quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Authoritarianism | Top-down governance such as a monarchy or dictatorship |
| Henry VIII | English king whose censorship epitomized early authoritarianism |
| Pre-Publication Censorship | Authorities preview material before dissemination |
| King James I | Articulated the divine-right-of-kings theory |
| Diving Right of Kings | Proper decisions follow the monarch's will, which is linked to the Almighty |
| John Milton | Early libertarian thinker |
| Marketplace of Ideas | An unbridled forum for free inquiry and free expression |
| Enlightenment | A movement emphasizing reason and individualism. |
| Self-Righting Process | Although people make occasional errors in truth-seeking, they eventually discover and correct them |
| Thomas Paine | Revolutionary War pamphleteer who defined libertarianism for common readers |
| Thomas Jefferson | Among libertarian drafters of Declaration of Independence |
| Natural Rights | Inherent human rights, including self-determination |
| First Amendment | The free-expression section of the U.S. Constitution |
| Microblogging | Online exchange forum, typically of sentence fragments |
| Edwin Stanton | U.S. secretary of state who organized Civil War censorship of sensitive military news |
| Rice-Roots Reporting | Uncensored field reporting from the Vietnam war |
| Pool System | Reporters chosen on a rotating basis to cover an event to which access is limited |
| Victoria Clarke | Designed policy to embed war reporters in combat units |
| Nation-State | A sovereign state whose people share a political system and usually language or ethnicity |
| WikiLeaks | Unaffiliated online source that posts secret government and corporate documents. Designed to correct abusive practices and promote public dialogue and involvement |
| Julian Assange | Founder of WikiLeaks |
| Principled Leaking | Concept that government and corporate employees serve a better good in whistle-blowing on corrupt, deceitful and secret practices |
| U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) | Government agency that administers non-military foreign aid |
| Nation Building | Encouraging governance and infrastructure systems in developing countries |
| Soft Diplomacy | Government's low-key initiatives to create a favorable context for foreign relations. Includes direct-to-the-people media messages |
| Radio Farda | U.S. government Farsi language service aimed at Iran and Iraq |
| Radio and Television Marti | U.S. propaganda station aimed at Cuba |
| Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty | U.S. propaganda stations aimed at countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East without a free flow of information |
| Voice of America | U.S. government-funded producer of broadcast and internet programming sent into nations with state-controlled media to articulate U.S. policies directly to the people |
| Golden Shield Firewall | Chinese system to control internal internet communication within the country |
| Hammad bin Khalifa | Founder of Al-Jazeera television news network |
| Al-Jazeera | Qatar-based satellite news channel for Arab audiences; now global |
| Propaganda | Widespread promotion of particular ideas, doctrines usually loose with truth or designed to promote a distinctly partisan or sectarian view |
| Dubai Media Incorporated | Quasi-government agency building Dubai into a Mideast entertainment production center |
| Liu Di | Under the pseudonym Stainless Steel Mouse, she satirized the Chinese government until arrested and silenced |
| Emergency Response Law | Chinese limites on news reporting of disasters, ostensibly to ensure social stability |
| Embeds | News reporters who are with military units on missions |
| Prior Censorship | Government review of content before dissemination |
| Firewall | A block on unauthorized access to a computer system while permitting out-ward communication |
| Next Carrying Network (CN2) | Fast Chinese internet protocols built on new technical standards; incompatible with other protocols |