Exam 1: Living in a Media World: An Introduction to Mass Communication

An e-mail that you send to your mother telling her you could really use some homemade cookies would be called which of the following types of communication?

The ______ model of mass communication looks at how media messages are used to draw attention to an individual or issue.

In a brief essay,explain the evolution of the concept of "fake news." Make sure your essay includes at least three of the meanings of fake news.

Jamal is reading a novel by John Green.He is engaging in which of the following types of communication?

The secret "All media are social" only applies to media in the 21st century.Before then media weren't social.

Group communication involves an unequal number of senders and receivers.

Andy is watching an episode of the animated series Bob's Burgers streaming on the Internet.He is engaging in which of the following types of communication?

In a brief essay,explain how you should process news of a tragedy like a mass shooting that is breaking on social media.

It is useful to make generalizations about the media industry as a whole.

What was the first medium to allow ideas to easily move beyond the place where they were initially created?

The ______ model of mass communication looks at how audience members use the mass media to create a shared experience.

Mass communication and the mass media are really the same thing.

A message being sent through the media must be ______ before it can be transmitted.

List each of the four elements of the SMCR model.

What does Neil Postman mean when he says television is "amusing us to death?"

How did the telegraph differ from earlier forms of communication?

Which of the following is the medium that emphasizes the interchangeability of the sender and receiver?

Which of the following was the world's first major communication network?

Twitter is a part of a growing type of online media known as which of the following?

Danielle Corsetto's Web comic Girls With Slingshots has been widely criticized for its stereotypical portrayal of people with disabilities.