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Mass Media - Test #2
| Only new authors are putting books online | false |
| Are books advertiser supported | false |
| Have books been historically an agent of social change | true |
| Are books the most or least in audience reach | least |
| Gutenberg's printing press and its effects spread slowly | false |
| Disinformation is more online today | true |
| What are the first 10 amendments known as? | The Bill of Rights |
| Oldest nation newspaper is the Wall Street Journal | true |
| What did the Lumiere brothers create? | cinematography in 1895 |
| Films were produced for theactrical film | true |
| Young people see movies | true |
| Does audience testing work? (asking an audience about a movie which then determines if a movie will be successful or not) | true |
| The theatrical window is getter shorter (how long after a movie is released is it put online) | true |
| FRC | true |
| More people listen to AM than FM radio | false |
| Podcasts are a niche platform | false |
| Telecommunication acts in 1996 led to deregulation - allowed the existence of duopolies | true |
| RADIO IS DEAD | false - IT IS FLATLINED |
| The 1939 world fair is where TV first showed up | true |
| Nonlinear TV watching is watching TV on our own schedule | true |
| Revenues from streaming services is more than from physical discs/rentals | true |
| Video game revenue has not yet matched movie revenue | false |
| Some critics see the internet as harmful but internet brings more people into the political process | false - internet has not brought more people into the political process |
| Disinformation and misinformation are the same | false |
| What was the first social media? | classmates |
| Offset lithography | late 1800s, made printing possible from photographic plates instead of metal casts |
| Platform agnostic publishing | media is accessible on multiple platforms |
| Early printing increased literacy forming the what | penny press |
| Paywall | can't read an article unless you have a subscription - you have to pay first |
| Development of technology | e-readers and smartphones led to reading newspapers online |
| First African American newspaper | Freedoms Journal - 1827 |
| Penny press | newspapers from the 1830s selling for one penny |
| QR codes | barcode that stores data (links, phone #s, coupons) - in most magazines |
| Trade publications | books including fiction, most nonfiction, cookbooks, biographies, art books, coffee-table, and how-to books |
| Theatrical window | time from when a movie is first released to theaters until it can be sold directly to retailers and the public |
| Movie seat price | based on where you sit - dynamic pricing |
| Father of Radio | Marconi - first to send radio waves across the ocean |
| First to put voices and music over airwaves | DeForest - audion tube |
| Talking Machine | Edison |
| Most listened format on the radio | adult contemporary |
| 1912 | sinking of Titanic and Radio Act of 1912 - required wireless operators to be licensed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor |
| 1927 | Radio Act of 1927 - airways belong to the public |
| What is a zero TV home? | having no TVs |
| What did Lucille Ball do for TV? | created the syndication industry, reruns were possible, TV industry moved to Hollywood w/ entertainment film mindset, weekly series were now produced quickly |
| Nielson | ratings for TV |
| Arbitron | ratings for radio |
| What are TV networks? | networks control what appears on network and non-network TV |
| Interactive TV | cable and satellite allow viewers to "talk back" to content providers - digital cable TV offers this |
| Why was streaming made possible? | the internet |
| Free cable is a part of what level? | basic |
| What does LED stand for? | light emitting diode |
| How many North Americans play video games? | 3/4 or 75% |
| Most commonly used device for playing video games? | smartphones |