Deck 10: Online Media: The Internet, Social Media, and Video Games

Question 1

On a website,cookies are which of the following?

A)visitors to the website
B)the address of the website
C)ads that pop-up or under the main window
D)files used to identify and track visitors at websites

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Twitch is a streaming video service that shows ______.

A)lesser-known sports like Australian-rules football
B)people playing video games
C)homemade cat videos
D)reruns of sitcoms from the 1950s and 60s

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Fandor is an online service that provides ______.

A)streaming video of science fiction and comic book conventions
B)online purchase of movie tickets
C)streaming video of art house films,B-movies,and documentaries
D)all of these

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Who developed TCP/IP,the original specification for the Internet's protocols?

A)Tim Berners-Lee
B)Steve Case
C)Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf
D)Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

Question 5

The word cyberspace is used to mean which of the following?

A)a computer pilot
B)a science of communication and control theory
C)the Internet and the interactions that take place there
D)the future in outer space

Question 6

Worldwide,______% of the population has access to the Internet.

A)12
B)23
C)46
D)78

Question 7

Twitter was originally created so people could share their answers to this question.

A)What did you watch on television last night?
B)What are you reading?
C)What did you have for breakfast?
D)What are you doing?

Question 8

Twitter's big innovation was ______.

A)connecting mobile Internet,mobile phones,and computer-based Internet as part of a single channel
B)combining GPS and mobile phones
C)allowing people to post mobile phone video to the web
D)allowing people to "tag" where they had observed different birds

Question 9

Websites use ______ to track users while they are on the site.

A)small files called cookies
B)remote-controlled web cameras
C)the person sitting next to you at a cybercafe
D)a site map

Question 10

The term SMS refers to ______.

A)secure mobile systems,a security protocol for mobile apps
B)short message service or text messaging
C)social mobile systems,a term for social media
D)standard management standards,an online data protocol

Question 11

Which of the following is not a characteristic of online media?

A)They are social.
B)They are mobile.
C)They are location based.
D)You can't fool me,all of these are characteristics of online media.

Question 12

The movie that revolutionized Internet-based promotion of films was which of the following?

A)The Blair Witch Project
B)My Big Fat Greek Wedding
C)Star Wars Episode III
D)300

Question 13

Which of the following is the address for where web pages are located?

A)http
B)URL
C)HTML
D)TCP

Question 14

The first web browser that could handle graphics was called which of the following?

A)Internet Explorer
B)Safari
C)Mosaic
D)Firefox

Question 15

Journalist Keah Brown created the ______ hashtag to help install pride in young people who are disabled.

A)#DisabledAndCute
B)#DisabledButCute
C)#CuteBecauseDisabled
D)#DisabledLivesMatter

Question 16

Video games can be considered to be a major new medium in part because ______.

A)they contain advertising
B)they made more money in 2015 than the movie industry did
C)video game consoles are general purpose media delivery devices in addition to providing games
D)all of these

Question 17

______ are a major new medium of mass communication?

A)Video games
B)Cell phone calls
C)Handwritten letters
D)Memory sticks

Question 18

ARPAnet,a predecessor of the Internet,was created to do which of the following?

A)allow incompatible computers to talk with each other
B)provide the military with a network that could survive nuclear war
C)serve as a medium for advertising clothing
D)allow people to share music,movies,and television programs

Question 19

People connect to the Internet using which of the following?

A)wireless services
B)telephone lines
C)cable television lines
D)all of these

Question 20

Paul Baran's idea of cutting messages into small pieces and sending them on the easiest route was known as which of the following?

A)digital pipeline
B)packet switching
C)teleconferencing
D)e-mail

Question 21

One common complaint about video games is that ______.

A)people of color and LGBT people are underrepresented as characters in games
B)White males are underrepresented as characters in games
C)there isn't enough violence in video games anymore because of new federal regulations limiting it
D)there are too many advertisements in the games that slow down game play

Question 22

YouTube was created with the purpose of ______.

A)making it easier to share video from mobile phones and digital cameras
B)providing on-demand access to music videos
C)providing an alternative to Netflix for streaming movies
D)sharing clips from popular television shows

Question 23

The World Wide Web became the standard for posting documents on the Internet because its creator did which of the following?

A)created something that was better than any of the alternatives
B)had support from both Microsoft and Apple
C)gave it away for free
D)came up with a unique idea

Question 24

The expression "everything is data" means that ______.

A)everything we know has been digitized and is available online
B)we make decisions using all kinds of contradictory information
C)the transmission of digital data online is gradually replacing other forms of media
D)none of these

Question 25

Video games could be considered a new mass medium because ______.

A)the major video game systems are all produced by the top six Big Media companies
B)the consoles can be used to deliver a range of media content and video games are becoming a new way to deliver advertising
C)video games are available using a range of technologies
D)you can't fool me,no way are video games a new mass medium

Question 26

The Uniform Resource Locator (URL)is the address of content placed on the web.

Question 27

According to Tim Berners-Lee,which of the following is a principle upon which the web is based?

A)The web should only be a tool for retrieving accurate information.
B)Users should be able to link to any document at anywhere in the world.
C)Some documents should only be accessible to a few people.
D)Copyright should be eliminateD.

Question 28

______ is a social media service built around sharing messages and photos that disappear after a short period of time or after the recipient views them.

A)Snapchat
B)Instagram
C)Twitter
D)YouTube

Question 29

The next-generation Internet will be used primarily for which of the following?

A)having increased loads of e-mail
B)playing online video games
C)providing high-quality video and audio links
D)allowing unrestricted file sharing of commercial music and news

Question 30

Radio and the Internet have which of the following in common?

A)They both were initially developed as tools for machine-assisted interpersonal communication.
B)They both were initially developed as media of mass communication.
C)They both are owned and operated by the government in the United States rather than by private industry.
D)They replaced other forms of mass communication,which were then driven out of business.

Question 31

Online media differ from traditional media because they contain elements of interpersonal,group,and mass communication.

Question 32

______ is a social media service built around sharing photos with a variety of filters applied.

A)Snapchat
B)Instagram
C)Twitter
D)YouTube

Question 33

Approximately 43% of the people living on the African continent have access to the Internet.

Question 34

______ is a social media service built sharing short messages often accompanied by a link to a website.

A)Snapchat
B)Instagram
C)Twitter
D)YouTube

Question 35

Social media are online services that allow users to ______.

A)generate content
B)comment
C)tag
D)all of these

Question 36

Amazon bought the video game streaming service Twitch for almost US$1 billion because ______.

A)showing people playing video games is a good way to attract video game customers to the Amazon online store
B)lots of people like to watch people playing video games
C)Twitch has approximately 15 million users a day
D)all of these

Question 37

The World Wide Web was developed almost entirely as a for-profit venture.

Question 38

One of the big advantages of distributing a movie over the Internet instead of in theaters is which of the following?

A)the quality of the image is higher online
B)the quality of the sound is higher online
C)you can charge more for people to see it
D)the cost of online distribution is close to zero

Question 39

HTML consists of a series of tags that say how text ought to be represented,where graphics should be placed,and what links should be included.

Question 40

The hashtag was added to the social media service Twitter more than a year after the service was launched.

Question 41

By 2018,more than two thirds of Americans reported going online with their mobile device.

Question 42

High-speed Internet service is also known as what?

Question 43

A blog is a collection of links and commentary in hypertext that can be created and posted on the Internet.

Question 44

By 2018,89% of American adults were online in one way or another.

Question 45

List two of the four principles of the hacker ethos.

Question 46

Convergence is the process of bringing together the characteristics of multiple media on the Internet.

Question 47

The Chinese government allows its citizens to freely search the Internet.

Question 48

The video game Grand Theft Auto V made more money that the movies Avatar and Titanic combined.

Question 49

Tim Berners-Lee is best known for inventing what?

Question 50

The hacker movement is characterized by people who think that computers and the Internet are an evil force destroying American society.

Question 51

What is the Internet?

Question 52

Bloggers have been successful in fact-checking news stories from Big Media outlets.

Question 53

Video games played competitively for audiences are known as what?

Question 54

What is reverse synergy?

Question 55

What is citizen journalism?

Question 56

By 2018,less than half of Americans were online with mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

Question 57

The purpose of hypertext is to let people move electronically from one document to another without necessarily knowing which computers the documents are located on.

Question 58

The authoritative LexisNexis news database now contains entries from a number of blogs.

Question 59

The creators of which network never intended for it to be used for e-mail or other forms of interpersonal communication.

Question 60

What is a weblog or blog?

Question 61

In a brief essay,explain why video games are considered by many to be a new form of mass media.Use specific examples.

Question 62

In a brief essay,discuss how bloggers can serve as a force to correct mistaken news published by legacy media.

Question 63

Name two of the three ways you can post messages to the social networking tool Twitter.

Question 64

In a brief essay,explain why President Donald Trump likes using Twitter to communicate with the public and why his doing so can be controversial.

Question 65

In a brief essay,explain what Wired magazine meant when they wrote in 2010 that "the web is dead."

Question 66

Name two ways that Russian propagandists reportedly interfered with the 2016 U.S.presidential election.

Question 67

In a brief essay,discuss how cell phones and user-generated video sites such as YouTube can be used as a channel for citizen journalism.