Pop Culture via Media

_____ refers to information transmitted to large segments of the population.

• Media
• Communication
• Mass communication
• Feedback

_____ generally refers to the shared values, attitudes, beliefs, and practices that characterize a social group, organization, or institution.

• Society
• Communication
• Media
• Culture

Which of the following is NOT a role that media plays in contemporary American society.

• Education
• Entertainment
• Mediator
• Watchdog

_____ are durable and able to contain lots of information, but are relatively slow and expensive to produce.

• Newspapers
• Television Programs
• Books
• Web sites

_____ encourages public discussion of issues and allows nearly everyone who wants a voice to have one.

• The internet
• Books
• Magazines
• Film

The post–World War II era in the United States was marked by prosperity, and by the introduction of a seductive new form of mass communication eventually found in the living rooms of most Americans: ____.

• radio
• newspaper
• film
• television

_____ are the people who help determine which stories make it to the public, including reporters who decide what sources to use and editors who decide what gets reported on and which stories make it to the front page.

• Publicists
• The Creel Commission
• Gatekeepers
• Public information officers

A _____ is a time marked by a particular way of understanding the world through culture and technology.

• cultural period
• epoc
• evolutionary era
• Time slippage

A form of constant monitoring in which the observation posts are decentralized and the
observed is never communicated with directly is known as

• panoptic surveillance

• industrialized production

• security cameras

• paid promotion

Releasing a cover of a Black performer’s song by a White performer was known as _____ a hit.

• white-washing
• covering
• displacing
• hijacking