COMS 201 Quiz 1 Review

What are the three types of media?

• Traditional, technical, and political

• Traditional, digital, and social

• Mass, digital, and social

• Old, new, and digital

Draw a predecessor to the Internet

_____ means bringing together separate communication technologies into one technological platform.

Communication is a ____ process

Fill in the missing text (the title of each section)

Mass communication is...

• Communication technologies that transmit signals across large areas

• Communication on a large scale

• The transmission and transformation of information on a large scale

• Large scale information that is transmitted across large areas

What does "new media" do better than traditional media?

• Encourage spectatorship

• Discourage participation

• Foster convergence

• Encourage particiaption

What model did Katz & Lazarsfeld create that argued that information from the mass media is transmitted or channeled to the larger population by "opinion leaders"?

What is today's deeply intertwined with?

• social and contextual forms

• political contexts

• social and cultural forms

• institutional and political contexts

How could we describe Canadian culture?

• Traditional

• Multi-layered

• American

• No-real definition