SMPA 1050: Exam 1 questions and
answers already passed
Which of the following are traditional media businesses?
a) social media
b) podcasts
c) Streaming Services
d) newspaper - correct answer ✔✔d) newspaper
What is a characteristic of US Media?
a) not regulated
b) no restrictions
c) corporations
d) not supported by advertising - correct answer ✔✔c) corporations
Define the Marketplace of Ideas - correct answer ✔✔Ideas are traded like products in a market.
Let all ideas compete in that marketplace and Truth will win. The ones that are the most
important will win.
Which of the following are examples of limitations to free speech?
a) safe harbour laws
b) COPPA
c) no false advertising
d) all of the above - correct answer ✔✔d) all of the above
, Define Safe habour laws - correct answer ✔✔shows with violence and sex could not be aired
before 10 pm, because children were likely to be in the audience
What led to the ideas behind the first amendment? - correct answer ✔✔Marketplace of Ideas
What is the first amendment? - correct answer ✔✔congress cannot pass any laws restricting
freedom of speech or of the press
List 3 roles of the media - correct answer ✔✔-get info and entertainment out
-hold gov. accountable
- foster political active citizentry
Who was Julian Assange? - correct answer ✔✔founder of wikileaks
What was the implication of WikiLeaks? - correct answer ✔✔It's not about wikileaks, it's about
holding the government accountability and transparency
How can free speech cause harm? - correct answer ✔✔Slander, lies
What does wikileaks prove based on the article: Wikileaks and the Public Sphere: Dissent and
Control in the Cyber World - correct answer ✔✔cyberworld is bringing the hacker ethic into the
existing political system, and arguably has enabled the rise of laissez-faire libertarianism,
characterized by rejection of government authority and enthusiasm for self-regulation.
What type of study does Wikileaks and the Public Sphere: Dissent and Control in the Cyber
World use? - correct answer ✔✔qualitative
What does the author mean by competing discourses in Wikileaks and the Public Sphere:
Dissent and Control in the Cyber World? - correct answer ✔✔Different opinion: keeping the
answers already passed
Which of the following are traditional media businesses?
a) social media
b) podcasts
c) Streaming Services
d) newspaper - correct answer ✔✔d) newspaper
What is a characteristic of US Media?
a) not regulated
b) no restrictions
c) corporations
d) not supported by advertising - correct answer ✔✔c) corporations
Define the Marketplace of Ideas - correct answer ✔✔Ideas are traded like products in a market.
Let all ideas compete in that marketplace and Truth will win. The ones that are the most
important will win.
Which of the following are examples of limitations to free speech?
a) safe harbour laws
b) COPPA
c) no false advertising
d) all of the above - correct answer ✔✔d) all of the above
, Define Safe habour laws - correct answer ✔✔shows with violence and sex could not be aired
before 10 pm, because children were likely to be in the audience
What led to the ideas behind the first amendment? - correct answer ✔✔Marketplace of Ideas
What is the first amendment? - correct answer ✔✔congress cannot pass any laws restricting
freedom of speech or of the press
List 3 roles of the media - correct answer ✔✔-get info and entertainment out
-hold gov. accountable
- foster political active citizentry
Who was Julian Assange? - correct answer ✔✔founder of wikileaks
What was the implication of WikiLeaks? - correct answer ✔✔It's not about wikileaks, it's about
holding the government accountability and transparency
How can free speech cause harm? - correct answer ✔✔Slander, lies
What does wikileaks prove based on the article: Wikileaks and the Public Sphere: Dissent and
Control in the Cyber World - correct answer ✔✔cyberworld is bringing the hacker ethic into the
existing political system, and arguably has enabled the rise of laissez-faire libertarianism,
characterized by rejection of government authority and enthusiasm for self-regulation.
What type of study does Wikileaks and the Public Sphere: Dissent and Control in the Cyber
World use? - correct answer ✔✔qualitative
What does the author mean by competing discourses in Wikileaks and the Public Sphere:
Dissent and Control in the Cyber World? - correct answer ✔✔Different opinion: keeping the
