History of Media Literacy, Part 1

When did the term or field of media literacy become popular?

• Around the 1500's

• Around the 1800's

• Around the 1700's

• Around the 1960's

Who was concerned about leaving words on paper according to the text?

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Phaedrus

• Socrates

• Plato

What invention in 1452 made print media easier to produce?

• Internet

• Movable type printing press

• Smartphones

• Codices

What was the name of the world's first MASS media according to the text?

• Newspaper

• Smartphones

• Internet

• Codices

What was the term used for sensational journalism in the late 19th century?

• Blue Journalism

• Red Journalism

• Green Journalism

• Yellow Journalism

What was the name of the self-made newspaper man who owned the New York World?

• Johannes Gutenberg

• Benjamin H. Day

• William Randolph Hearst

• Joseph Pulitzer

What was the name of the young mining heir who owned the New York Journal?

• Benjamin H. Day

• Joseph Pulitzer

• William Randolph Hearst

• Johannes Gutenberg

What was the name of the U.S. battleship that sunk in Havana Harbor in 1898?

• Titanic

• Arizona

• Maine

• Bismarck

What was the term used for the comic that Pulitzer and Hearst's papers fought over?

• The Green Kid

• The Red Kid

• The Yellow Kid

• The Blue Kid

What was the name of the paper that published a headline about the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine?

• The New York World

• The New York Journal

• The New York Sun

• The New York Times