Deck 9: The Internet

Question 1

Who coined the term cyberspace?

A) Bill Gates
B) Ted Nelson
C) William Gibson
D) Tim Berners-Lee
E) Marc Andreessen

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which is the eighth major mass medium?

A) The cell phone
B) Television
C) The radio
D) The internet
E) Podcasting

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which is an example of a push media?

A) Song on the radio
B) Television program
C) Article in a magazine
D) A book
E) OnStar

Answer 3

E

Question 4

What is TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)?

A) A common language that allows local networks to talk to each other
B) The electrical innovation that allowed the internet to develop
C) A series of connected computers
D) A special kind of transmission cable that allows for high-speed transfer
E) A wireless data transmission technology

Question 5

Which was the first computer network,created by the U.S.military?

A) The internet
B) ARPANET
C) WARNET
D) The intranet
E) PARANET

Question 6

Which is an example of pull media?

A) A story in a newspaper
B) Cellphone
C) Web banner
D) Online newsletter
E) News updates

Question 7

Who devised the coding that made the web possible?

A) Vannevar Bush
B) Rob Malda
C) Bill Gates
D) Marc Andreessen
E) Tim Berners-Lee

Question 8

In which decade did the internet emerge?

A) 1970s
B) 1980s
C) 2000s
D) 1990s
E) 1960s

Question 9

Which was the first browser that made the web easily accessible and attractive to the average computer owner?

A) Yahoo!
B) Firefox
C) Google
D) ARPANET
E) Netscape

Question 10

Which company was the first to figure out how to make massive profits from the internet?

A) Apple
B) Google
C) Yahoo!
D) Netscape
E) iTunes

Question 11

According to the Entertainment Software Association,players spend on average how many hours per week playing their games?

A) 10.2 hours
B) 3.7 hours
C) 6.5 hours
D) 15.3 hours
E) 22.4 hours

Question 12

Which term refers to the socioeconomic distinction between those who can afford internet access and those who cannot?

A) Wi-Fi
B) Freedom of access
C) Digital divide
D) Web access
E) Portal equality

Question 13

What is HTTP?

A) A system for receiving information
B) The first search engine
C) A system for transmitting information
D) A code that allows computers to talk to each other
E) An address assigned to a page on the internet

Question 14

Who invented the World Wide Web?

A) Bill Gates
B) Ted Nelson
C) William Gibson
D) Tim Berners-Lee
E) Marc Andreessen

Question 15

The fundamental network that carries messages is

A) ARPANET.
B) the web.
C) the internet.
D) cyberspace.
E) Google.

Question 16

Which system allows global linking of information modules in user-determined sequences?

A) Internet
B) World wide web
C) ARPANET
D) TCP
E) Fibre optic cables

Question 17

Which communications model explains how some of the control in the communication process shifts to the receiver?

A) Selectivity model
B) Bias model
C) Concentric circle model
D) Push-pull model
E) Demassification model

Question 18

Which is the annual sales figure for gaming hardware,software,and accessories?

A) $50 million
B) $30 billion
C) $4.3 billion
D) $10 billion
E) $750 million

Question 19

What is a URL?

A) A system for receiving information
B) The first search engine
C) A system for transmitting information
D) A code that allows computers to talk to each other
E) An address assigned to a page on the internet

Question 20

Which company developed fibre optic cable?

A) Apple
B) Corning Glass
C) Microsoft
D) Bell Canada
E) National Science Foundation

Question 21

During the 2008 U.S.presidential campaign,how could people ask questions of the candidates?

A) On YouTube
B) On CNN
C) In The New York Times.
D) On Ask.com
E) On blogs

Question 22

The internet emerged as a powerful new mass medium in 2004.

Question 23

The internet is only a push media.

Question 24

Which term refers to the melding of print,electronic,and photographic media into digitized form?

A) Monopolization
B) Massification
C) Demassification
D) Digitization
E) Technological convergence

Question 25

Which technology would make every wireless device both a receiver and a transmitter?

A) TCP
B) HTTP
C) Fibre optic cables
D) Wi-Fi
E) Dynamic routing

Question 26

According to Marshall McLuhan,which media alienated human beings from their natural state?

A) Print
B) Television
C) Internet
D) Radio
E) Movies

Question 27

Which broadcast regulator decided in 2009 not to regulate the internet?

A) ARTC
B) FBI
C) CIA
D) NFB
E) CRTC

Question 28

Which mass medium has democratized mass communication?

A) Magazines
B) Newspapers
C) Radio
D) Television
E) Internet

Question 29

The internet generally has less content than traditional media.

Question 30

What makes the internet different from other mass media?

A) It is digital.
B) It reaches a large audience.
C) It is more expensive.
D) It is less expensive.
E) It is interactive.

Question 31

In 2009,which company was found to be in violation of Canadian privacy laws?

A) Wikipedia
B) Facebook
C) MySpace
D) Google
E) Ask.com

Question 32

In 2009,what percentage of North Americans had access to the internet?

A) 97 percent
B) 87 percent
C) 36 percent
D) 52 percent
E) 74 percent

Question 33

Advertising banners across your computer screen are an example of push media.

Question 34

According to Barry Diller,what is one effect of ownership consolidation of the internet?

A) Increased quality
B) Greater diversity
C) Lower profits
D) Loss of quality
E) Loss of diversity

Question 35

What was Marshall McLuhan's term for the new tribalization?

A) Social network
B) International community
C) Global village
D) Universalism
E) World Wide Web

Question 36

Who was the first broadcast regulator in the world to address the issue of controlling the internet?

A) AARP
B) NFB
C) FBI
D) CRTC
E) CIA

Question 37

According to McLuhan,which media brought back tribalization?

A) Newspapers
B) Movies
C) Radio
D) Internet
E) Television

Question 38

The social networking site Facebook had how many users in 2009?

A) 500 million
B) 2 billion
C) 50 million
D) 100 million
E) 200 million

Question 39

Television is generally classified as a pull media.

Question 40

In 2009,what percentage of African countries had access to the internet?

A) 7 percent
B) 20 percent
C) 15 percent
D) 2 percent
E) 35 percent

Question 41

The internet is democratizing mass communication.

Question 42

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

Question 43

WiFi technology has created an increase in the digital divide.

Question 44

Users of the internet are only recipients of information and entertainment.

Question 45

The story of Sean-Paul Kelley is an example of plagiarism on the internet.

Question 46

AOL was the first company to provide online service to consumers.

Question 47

Dynamic routing allows only incoming messages to be received faster.

Question 48

Entrepreneurs were slow to appreciate the commercial possibilities of the internet.

Question 49

The term cyberspace was coined by a science fiction writer.

Question 50

Google was the first company to figure out how to make massive profits from the internet.

Question 51

When it comes to blogs,there is no gatekeeping.

Question 52

The annual sales of gaming hardware,software,and accessories is more than $10 billion.

Question 53

The web is the fundamental network that carries messages.

Question 54

The first universal system that allowed local networks to talk to each other was called TCP.

Question 55

A universal internet was not possible until there was a common language.

Question 56

The terms internet and web mean exactly the same thing.

Question 57

Internet gamers play an average of 15.7 hours per week.

Question 58

Bright colours and visual appeal has always been a feature of the internet.

Question 59

The first network of linked computers was called the World Wide Web.

Question 60

Google was the first web browser.

Question 61

Marshall McLuhan argued that television has alienated human beings from their natural state.

Question 62

In 1974,Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn introduced a common language called __________________.

Question 63

The __________________ model describes how control in the communication process may shift to the receiver.

Question 64

The fundamental network that carries messages is the __________________.

Question 65

In North America,over 97 percent of people have access to the internet.

Question 66

__________________ is a structure of codes that permits the exchange of text,graphics,video,and audio.

Question 67

The internet may facilitate what Marshall McLuhan called retribalization.

Question 68

Facebook has nearly 1 billion users around the world.

Question 69

In Canada,the internet is regulated by the CRTC.

Question 70

The first network of linked computers was called __________________.

Question 71

Marshall McLuhan invented the term global village.

Question 72

Science-fiction novelist William Gibson coined the term __________________.

Question 73

? __________________ has emerged as the eighth major mass medium.

Question 74

The internet is creating more global equality.

Question 75

The companies that give ordinary folks a portal to the internet are called __________________.

Question 76

In 2009,Facebook was found to be in violation of Canadian privacy laws.

Question 77

According to Barry Diller,technological convergence will make the internet more diverse.

Question 78

Only the internet is affected by technological convergence.

Question 79

__________________ devised coding that made the web possible.

Question 80

__________________ was the first browser that made the web easily accessible and attractive to the average computer owner.