NMC 101 Final (Multiple Choice) – Study Guide, Practice Questions & Revision
What is the best summary of Gary Small's fMRI research - ✔✔It is inconclusive. Brain activity
increases, but we really don't know if that is a good or bad thing
After supersession comes... - ✔✔Transparency
Culture is a.... - ✔✔Situated system of meaning
Which of the following would be a faction like those described Federalist no. 10 - ✔✔Occupy
Wall Street.
South Korean Internet Rescue camps treat excessive media use pathologically. which example
from the United States would treat media use in a similar way - ✔✔Twenty-somethings taking
a social media 'detox.'
Why would I ask you about your perception of the history of the public sphere - ✔✔Visions of
the Public Sphere of the past inform current arguments
Why is anti-censorship not enough to sustain the public sphere according to Sunstien -
✔✔Active efforts to cultivate and promote meaningful public culture is necessary
The following excerpt is from Gitleman, describing Altman: Yet because their "deaths," like
those of all "dead" media, occurred in relation to those that "lived," even the most short lived
are profoundly intertextual, tangling during their existence with dominant, discursive practices
of representation that characterized the total cultural economy of their day. - ✔✔Media
references to multiple cultural formations, technologies and texts.
, What would be the best reason to use the term 'new media' to describe what we study - ✔✔It
makes sense to the public, although, it isn't precise, it describes what we do.
What is at stake in the use of the term 'organic' or 'transparent' to describe social media fan
communities - ✔✔Organic refers to the idea that fans have real sense of agency. campaigns
work when marketing has a light touch, people don't want to be manipulated. Makes heavy
handed campaign palatable.
In Generation Like, Rushkoff visits several advertising agencies, what is the main method by
which these companies work on behalf of their clients - ✔✔Building careful social media
campaigns with sophisticated timing
What would be a contemporary version of JL Austin say about the 'like' feature of Facebook -
✔✔It's a Speech Act
What would be a topic that Altman might study as a form of crisis historiography - ✔✔CDs
passing records, with tapes never being the most popular medium for music
What is Madison's position on managing factories? - ✔✔The cause of faction may be
impossible to redress, focusing on effects is key.
Sunstien Wrote:
The idea is that after deliberating with one another, people are likely to move toward a more
extreme point in the direction to which they were previously inclined.
What is this phenomena called - ✔✔Group Polarization
What idea from Habermas is most similar to the conclusion of Generation Like - ✔✔Media
organizations circumvent or manipulate the public sphere
What is the best summary of Gary Small's fMRI research - ✔✔It is inconclusive. Brain activity
increases, but we really don't know if that is a good or bad thing
After supersession comes... - ✔✔Transparency
Culture is a.... - ✔✔Situated system of meaning
Which of the following would be a faction like those described Federalist no. 10 - ✔✔Occupy
Wall Street.
South Korean Internet Rescue camps treat excessive media use pathologically. which example
from the United States would treat media use in a similar way - ✔✔Twenty-somethings taking
a social media 'detox.'
Why would I ask you about your perception of the history of the public sphere - ✔✔Visions of
the Public Sphere of the past inform current arguments
Why is anti-censorship not enough to sustain the public sphere according to Sunstien -
✔✔Active efforts to cultivate and promote meaningful public culture is necessary
The following excerpt is from Gitleman, describing Altman: Yet because their "deaths," like
those of all "dead" media, occurred in relation to those that "lived," even the most short lived
are profoundly intertextual, tangling during their existence with dominant, discursive practices
of representation that characterized the total cultural economy of their day. - ✔✔Media
references to multiple cultural formations, technologies and texts.
, What would be the best reason to use the term 'new media' to describe what we study - ✔✔It
makes sense to the public, although, it isn't precise, it describes what we do.
What is at stake in the use of the term 'organic' or 'transparent' to describe social media fan
communities - ✔✔Organic refers to the idea that fans have real sense of agency. campaigns
work when marketing has a light touch, people don't want to be manipulated. Makes heavy
handed campaign palatable.
In Generation Like, Rushkoff visits several advertising agencies, what is the main method by
which these companies work on behalf of their clients - ✔✔Building careful social media
campaigns with sophisticated timing
What would be a contemporary version of JL Austin say about the 'like' feature of Facebook -
✔✔It's a Speech Act
What would be a topic that Altman might study as a form of crisis historiography - ✔✔CDs
passing records, with tapes never being the most popular medium for music
What is Madison's position on managing factories? - ✔✔The cause of faction may be
impossible to redress, focusing on effects is key.
Sunstien Wrote:
The idea is that after deliberating with one another, people are likely to move toward a more
extreme point in the direction to which they were previously inclined.
What is this phenomena called - ✔✔Group Polarization
What idea from Habermas is most similar to the conclusion of Generation Like - ✔✔Media
organizations circumvent or manipulate the public sphere
