Deck 6: Interactive Media: The Internet, Video Games, and Virtual Reality

Question 1

The first national computer network connected many __________ around the country for advanced, high-speed computing applications and research.

A) hospitals
B) media organizations
C) universities
D) computer software companies

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following best illustrates the phenomenon of cross-fertilization?

A) Pac-Man, the console game
B) Pac-Man, the movie
C) Pac-Man, the arcade game
D) Pac-Man, the online game

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The __________ nature of interactive media can personalize people's relationship with content.

A) multimodal
B) dialogic
C) approachable
D) multicast

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following assertions about professional gamers is accurate?

A) The income of the top ten gamers ranges from $4.2 million to $400,000.
B) Unlike professional athletes, gamers do not earn much of their income from sponsorships.
C) Korean teams are known to practice upwards of 70 to 80 hours a week.
D) Professional gaming organizations include Major Online Gaming and National Digital Sports League.

Question 5

Large-scale computers in the second half of the twentieth century could not communicate with each other prior to the creation of _________.

A) the interface
B) the global Web network
C) the interactive mouse
D) the Internet

Question 6

What social medium was invented in 1971 by the computer engineer Ray Tomlinson?

A) Blogging
B) Email
C) Twitter
D) Instagram

Question 7

The exact day when the Internet was launched is difficult to determine, but the __________ adopted TCP/IP as the basis for the ARPANET in 1982.

A) Microsoft corporation
B) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
C) White House
D) Ivy League schools

Question 8

Which of the following features is a crucial element for online communication to reach its full potential as a mass medium?

A) Bandwidth
B) Fiber-optic lines
C) An established hierarchy of communications companies
D) Media oligopoly

Question 9

What uses 3-D animation techniques and characters from popular video games to make movies?

A) MMOGs
B) MMORGs
C) Mods
D) Machinima

Question 10

Keeping your information on personal computers with large hard drives for storage and making it available to others on the Internet is the basis of __________.

A) peer-to-peer (P2P) applications
B) Windows applications
C) broadband connectivity
D) Facebook and Google+

Question 11

In 1974, the Control Data Corporation (CDC) introduced PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automated Teaching Operations), the first computer to have a terminal with which of the following features?

A) Logic-tech mouse
B) Heterogeneous database
C) Image-based tools
D) Touch-sensitive video display

Question 12

After debuting in 1974, Xerox's Alto, a computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) navigated with a(n) __________, never caught on with the public.

A) touch-sensitive video display
B) mouse
C) wand
D) electronic stylus

Question 13

The first computer that could accept natural handwriting with __________ was sold in 1979.

A) voice recognition
B) immersive technology
C) a variable typeface
D) an electronic stylus

Question 14

In 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart invented the computer mouse, made out of __________ and used with a companion keyboard.

A) wood
B) plastic
C) copper
D) tin

Question 15

The QWERTY keyboard, in which the most frequently typed keys are spread far apart, was developed by which inventor?

A) August Dvorak
B) Milton Bradley
C) Christopher Latham Sholes
D) Georges Méliès

Question 16

As of 2017, how many Internet users were there worldwide?

A) 1.9 billion
B) 2.5 billion
C) 3.7 billion
D) 4.6 billion

Question 17

Because of their relative complexity, computers have more __________ than traditional media.

A) user-interface issues
B) malfunction patterns
C) template issues
D) default settings

Question 18

Brad and Hiro use an app from the NikeFuel campaign that transcribes their daily activities into points. Allowing them to compete with each other and earn rewards, this system is based on the principles of __________.

A) swarming
B) gamification
C) male bonding
D) multitasking

Question 19

__________ allow us to receive vast amounts of verbal and visual information from a variety of global sources.

A) Broadband connections
B) Internet tablets
C) Personalized computer interfaces
D) Fiber-optic wires

Question 20

Abdul and Natasha are part of a global file-sharing service in which all computers can send and receive information equally. This is a(n) __________ network.

A) interpersonal communication
B) surfing
C) open access
D) peer-to-peer (P2P)

Question 21

__________ is the process in which multiple downloads of the same file are temporarily coordinated to accelerate the downloading process.

A) Tagging
B) Surfing
C) Swarming
D) Cloud computing

Question 22

In 1974, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn introduced the term "Internet" and specified the design of what feature?

A) Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
B) World Wide Web manual
C) Web browsers
D) Wireless access modalities

Question 23

By 2006, Nintendo had leapfrogged ahead of Microsoft and released which wildly popular console that included handheld motion controllers?

A) Watch Dogs
B) Battlefield4
C) Tomb Raider
D) Wii

Question 24

Which of the following features are added capabilities for the latest generation of consoles, such as Xbox One, PS4, and Wii U?

A) Translator functions
B) Motion control
C) Voice commands and face recognition
D) Mobile monitors

Question 25

__________ help set parameters on content and game-play dynamics.

A) Media literacies
B) Genres
C) Mods
D) Trademarks

Question 26

__________ claims the top fourteen video-game titles and seventeen of the top twenty titles.

A) Nintendo
B) PlayStation
C) Sega
D) Activision Blizzard

Question 27

Which media pioneer created Final Fantasy, one of the most enduring and iconic franchises in video game history?

A) Ralph Baer
B) Hideo Kojima
C) Gabe Newell
D) Hironobu Sakaguchi

Question 28

In World of Warcraft, players create characters and go online to participate in quests or missions. They work with other players in real time using __________.

A) Twitter
B) tactical RPGs
C) chats and text messaging*
D) secret code

Question 29

In first-person shooter games like __________, players can either work together in teams or simply participate in free-for-all online combat.

A) Dial "M" for Murder
B) Far Cry 3
C) Donkey Kong
D) Halo

Question 30

Valerie was frustrated to discover that an online article featuring a photo of Faith Hill and Tim McGraw above the headline "Stars Who Divorced in 2017" offered no information on her favorite country stars. This practice is common with __________.

A) soft news
B) press agentry
C) false advertising
D) clickbait

Question 31

Which of the following games is the product of an independent developer?

A) Super Mario
B) Minecraft
C) Duck Hunt
D) Warcraft

Question 32

What proved to be an unanticipated problem with Google Glass?

A) Poor optical resolution
B) Limited graphics
C) Invasion of privacy
D) Uncomfortable glasses design

Question 33

Based in France, __________ is Europe's largest independent game-development company and the third largest in the United States.

A) Ubisoft
B) Sega
C) Zynga
D) Electronic Arts (EA)

Question 34

Common symptoms of video-game addiction include dry eyes, carpal tunnel syndrome, and __________.

A) lying to employers and family about gaming activities
B) withdrawal from reality
C) delusions of grandeur
D) identity crises

Question 35

Serious games, which educate while they entertain, are also known as __________.

A) cognitive games
B) stealth games
C) applied games
D) mind games

Question 36

__________, Microsoft Studio's biggest-selling game, made $220 million in sales on its opening day in 2012.

A) Angry Birds
B) Halo 4
C) Grand Theft Auto
D) World of Warcraft

Question 37

Which of the following assertions about endangered languages is correct?

A) UNESCO projects that by the end of this century, one quarter of the seven thousand languages spoken today will become extinct.
B) The loss of different languages is confined to remote regions in distant parts of the world.
C) A language is considered extinct if fewer than one thousand people speak it.
D) The Internet is playing a role in both destroying and preserving minority languages.

Question 38

Frequently changing channels with a remote control could be considered a simple form of __________.

A) multitasking
B) interfacing
C) transmission control protocol
D) cross-fertilization

Question 39

In 2009, social games like Farmville and mobile games like Angry Birds became wildly popular, moving game playing to __________.

A) social-networking sites and smartphones
B) MOOCs and online-learning portals
C) game consoles in game arcades
D) eighth-generation consoles

Question 40

Chevonne has just launched a new social-networking site. Which technique would you recommend she use to promote its growth?

A) Gamification
B) Clickbait
C) Augmented reality
D) Behavioral targeting

Question 41

The dot-com bubble burst in March __________, ending a run that began in the late 1990s that saw tremendous increases in valuations of Internet companies.

A) 2008
B) 2004
C) 2000
D) 1996

Question 42

Which is an example of an eighth-generation console?

A) Xbox
B) Xbox 360
C) Nintendo DS
D) Nintendo 3DS

Question 43

Which browser has the biggest market share?

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

Question 44

__________ is the carrying capacity and speed of telecommunication networks that determine how much information can be sent and how fast it can travel over the networks.

A) Broadband
B) Bandwidth
C) Big data
D) Frequency modulation

Question 45

Because Microsoft offered __________ for free, eventually bundling it with the Windows operating system, it quickly became the dominant Web browser in the 1990s.

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

Question 46

What accounts for the explosion in online video gaming?

A) Graphical user interface (GUI)
B) Machinima
C) Mods
D) Social media

Question 47

Dropbox, Microsoft's One Drive, and Google Drive are all examples of __________.

A) file sharing services
B) browsers
C) graphical user interfaces
D) mods

Question 48

Adam and Alex finally found the perfect couch for their living room after an exhaustive search on the Internet. But now whenever either is online, furniture ads continue to keep popping up, an annoyance that results from __________.

A) media oligopolies
B) interactivity
C) behavioral targeting
D) open access

Question 49

Which of the following is a criticism of gamification?

A) Entertainment and education are incompatible activities.
B) Simulated activities promote a false sense of competence.
C) Competition discourages learning.
D) Rewarding relatively trivial actions creates a false sense of satisfaction.

Question 50

Which of the following is a mainstay of sci-fi stories popular in the late twentieth century?

A) Augmented reality
B) Virtual reality
C) Google Glass
D) Trolling

Question 51

What is a key advantage of using video games to help train or educate people?

Question 52

Why was the term "user interface" not used before the development of the computer?

Question 53

Why were the early game consoles less popular than arcade games?

Question 54

Describe the relative popularity of snail mail, email, video games, and social media.

Question 55

What is "augmented reality" and where is it common?

Question 56

Describe "interactivity," and provide three examples of it.

Question 57

Explain the historical development of the user interface, noting its key developments.

Question 58

Describe the distribution dynamics of digital media.

Question 59

What are some of the ethical issues that occur with the rise of interactive media in modern society?

Question 60

Describe the concerns about video-game addiction.