WorksheetsML #2 - History of Media Literacy Part 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
This writing by Plato was a warning on the impact that writing things down has on memory.
Phaedrus
Republic
The Allegory of The Cave
Statesman
Who is the the earliest person known to have implemented moveable type blocks in a printing press?
Bi Sheng
Wang Shen
Johannes Gutenberg
Peter Schoffer
Who is credited with creating the printing press, but really improved the design to be more durable? He also had to develop an ink that could be used with metal.
Bi Sheng
Wang Shen
Johannes Gutenberg
Peter Schoffer
Who believed that people should be able to interpret the bible for themselves? He went so far as to translate the bible from Latin to German.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King Jr.
Wang Shen
The Pheadrus
Which of the following is a method by which people got information before mass media came about?
newspaper
radio
television
social media
What was the first true mass media that became a staple of communication throughout the 1700s?
newspapers
radio
television
motion pictures
What type of newspaper was a boon for the lower and middle classes? It lead to a greater amount of literate people despite being filled with advertisements.
tabloid
magazine
evening newspaper
What form of journalism - rife with misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda - was a major issue in the late 1800s?
Yellow Journalism
Red Journalism
Journalism
Blue Journalism
What two industry titans had a feud through newspapers that caused heightened tensions between the U.S. and Spain?
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
Guglielmo Marconi
Alexander Graham Bell
Prior to the 1900s what was the greatest concern for people that directly impacted media literacy?
Media literacy
Social Media
Yellow Journalism
