ML #2 - History of Media Literacy Part 1

This writing by Plato was a warning on the impact that writing things down has on memory.

• Phaedrus

• Republic

• The Allegory of The Cave

• Statesman

Who is the the earliest person known to have implemented moveable type blocks in a printing press?

• Bi Sheng

• Wang Shen

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Peter Schoffer

Who is credited with creating the printing press, but really improved the design to be more durable? He also had to develop an ink that could be used with metal.

• Bi Sheng

• Wang Shen

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Peter Schoffer

Who believed that people should be able to interpret the bible for themselves? He went so far as to translate the bible from Latin to German.

• Martin Luther

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Wang Shen

• The Pheadrus

Which of the following is a method by which people got information before mass media came about?

• word of mouth
• newspaper

• radio

• television

• social media

What was the first true mass media that became a staple of communication throughout the 1700s?

• newspapers

• radio

• television

• motion pictures

What type of newspaper was a boon for the lower and middle classes? It lead to a greater amount of literate people despite being filled with advertisements.

• penny press
• tabloid

• magazine

• evening newspaper

What form of journalism - rife with misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda - was a major issue in the late 1800s?

• Yellow Journalism

• Red Journalism

• Journalism

• Blue Journalism

What two industry titans had a feud through newspapers that caused heightened tensions between the U.S. and Spain?

• William Randolph Hearst

• Joseph Pulitzer

• Guglielmo Marconi

• Alexander Graham Bell

Prior to the 1900s what was the greatest concern for people that directly impacted media literacy?

• Literacy
• Media literacy

• Social Media

• Yellow Journalism