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Revision on the first two weeks of Media/News

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which concept best fits this description?: A generational model of technology emerges then it keeps evolving with improvements and breakthroughs.

a)

Media consolidation

b)

Technological diffusion

c)

Evolutionary model of technological change

d)

Global village

2.

Technology diffusion is?

a)

The spread of technology across borders

b)

The destruction of technology

c)

That media and technology are interwoven

d)

Technology does not allow for social or economic growth

3.

What is a semi-peripheral nation?

a)

Countries that contribute to the world the most through social and economic policy

b)

Countries that serve a 'middle position' within the world hierarchy but still have developing social and economic policy

c)

Countries that are in absolute poverty and do not have any access to technology

d)

Countries that only allow elite members of society to have access to technology

4.

True or False: Australia has one of the highest concentration of traditional media ownership?

a)

False

b)

True

5.

Why does News Corporation only have 14.99% share in APN News and Media?

a)

It is .01% below the point of 15% because that was all the company could afford.

b)

News Corporation is allowing for diversity in Australian newspapers by only purchasing 14.99%

c)

Australia's media ownership laws allows for any company to purchase any interest in the media

d)

It is .01% below the point to have controlling interest under Australia's media ownership laws.

6.

Multiple selection question

Select all answers that are characteristics of the media

a)

The media are called the 'media', because they are literally at the end of a message or communication between the sender and the receiver.

b)

The media use processes of industrialised technology for producing messages.

c)

The media’s development has been affected by commercial interests that recognise that the media are potentially highly profitable industries.

d)

The media are human communications systems.

7.

What was the first major medium in Western culture?

a)

The Printing press

b)

The telegraph

c)

The telephone

d)

The television

8.

Since 1980, what revolution in communications has been happening?

a)

Industrial

b)

Information

c)

Technological

d)

Computer

9.

Which concept is NOT one of the five interconnected media determinant?

a)

economics

b)

social controls

c)

global village

d)

audiences

10.

Multiple selection question

Select all three economic and social determinants to the media.

a)

Human creativity

b)

Social solidarity and cohesion

c)

Social power and control

d)

audiences and consumers

11.

The ______________________ is the access between those who have ready access to technology and those who do not.

a)

Media consumption

b)

Digital divide

c)

Media determinants

d)

Social control

12.

What concept would someone from Ancient Rome label reality television shows such as Keeping up with the Kardashians?

a)

Bread and flies

b)

Entertainment and relevant

c)

Clowns and rye

d)

Bread and circuses

13.

How would a functionalist analyse the media?

a)

Focus on what social purposes technology and media serve-the link within relationships

b)

The systematic inequality created by differential access

c)

May seek to understand the difference between real lives and the reality depicted on reality television

14.

How might an symbolic interactionist analyse the media?

a)

The social inequality to the access of all technologies

b)

might seek to understand the difference between the real lives we lead and the reality depicted on “reality” television

c)

what social purposes technology and media serve that facilitate relationships

15.

How might a conflict theorist analyse the media?

a)

systematic inequality created by differential access to media and technology.

b)

might seek to understand the difference between the real lives we lead and the reality depicted on “reality” television

c)

the manifest functions of media and technology, as well as their role in social dysfunction.