WorksheetsRevision on the first two weeks of Media/News
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which concept best fits this description?: A generational model of technology emerges then it keeps evolving with improvements and breakthroughs.
Media consolidation
Technological diffusion
Evolutionary model of technological change
Global village
Technology diffusion is?
The spread of technology across borders
The destruction of technology
That media and technology are interwoven
Technology does not allow for social or economic growth
What is a semi-peripheral nation?
Countries that contribute to the world the most through social and economic policy
Countries that serve a 'middle position' within the world hierarchy but still have developing social and economic policy
Countries that are in absolute poverty and do not have any access to technology
Countries that only allow elite members of society to have access to technology
True or False: Australia has one of the highest concentration of traditional media ownership?
False
True
Why does News Corporation only have 14.99% share in APN News and Media?
It is .01% below the point of 15% because that was all the company could afford.
News Corporation is allowing for diversity in Australian newspapers by only purchasing 14.99%
Australia's media ownership laws allows for any company to purchase any interest in the media
It is .01% below the point to have controlling interest under Australia's media ownership laws.
Multiple selection question
Select all answers that are characteristics of the media
The media are called the 'media', because they are literally at the end of a message or communication between the sender and the receiver.
The media use processes of industrialised technology for producing messages.
The media’s development has been affected by commercial interests that recognise that the media are potentially highly profitable industries.
The media are human communications systems.
What was the first major medium in Western culture?
The Printing press
The telegraph
The telephone
The television
Since 1980, what revolution in communications has been happening?
Industrial
Information
Technological
Computer
Which concept is NOT one of the five interconnected media determinant?
economics
social controls
global village
audiences
Multiple selection question
Select all three economic and social determinants to the media.
Human creativity
Social solidarity and cohesion
Social power and control
audiences and consumers
The ______________________ is the access between those who have ready access to technology and those who do not.
Media consumption
Digital divide
Media determinants
Social control
What concept would someone from Ancient Rome label reality television shows such as Keeping up with the Kardashians?
Bread and flies
Entertainment and relevant
Clowns and rye
Bread and circuses
How would a functionalist analyse the media?
Focus on what social purposes technology and media serve-the link within relationships
The systematic inequality created by differential access
May seek to understand the difference between real lives and the reality depicted on reality television
How might an symbolic interactionist analyse the media?
The social inequality to the access of all technologies
might seek to understand the difference between the real lives we lead and the reality depicted on “reality” television
what social purposes technology and media serve that facilitate relationships
How might a conflict theorist analyse the media?
systematic inequality created by differential access to media and technology.
might seek to understand the difference between the real lives we lead and the reality depicted on “reality” television
the manifest functions of media and technology, as well as their role in social dysfunction.
