UBC FIST 240 Media Industries Final
Exam
Media Concentration - Correct Answer-The gathering of ownership of newspapers and
other media in the hands of a few large corporations.
Public Media - Correct Answer-legislation, regulation, subsidy are policy. Media are a
public utility, a national resource, and is power/control
Six Faces of Piracy (6) - Correct Answer-theft, Free Enterprise, Free Speech,
authorship, Resistance, access
Piracy: Theft - Correct Answer-Piracy is not theft. It is the taking away of the copyright
holder's exclusive right. Some view piracy as stealing, but it is not.
Piracy: Free Enterprise - Correct Answer-Piracy can be viewed as an extreme version
of free enterprise, or extreme laissez-faire capitalism
Piracy: Free Speech - Correct Answer-it is argued by some that the future of free
speech is being compromised by increasingly limiting copyright laws. Consumer rights
are being compromised, and the future of innovation is at stake.
Cultural Industries - Correct Answer-institutions in our society which employ the
characteristic modes of production and organization of industrial corporations to
produce and disseminate symbols in the form of cultural goods and services, generally,
though not exclusively, as commodities OR the signifying system through which
necessarily a social order is communicated, reproduced, experienced and explored
examples of media industries - Correct Answer-sport, design, theme parks, architecture,
performing arts, fashion, software
textual analysis - Correct Answer-study the product
political economy analysis - Correct Answer-study the ownership structures of
circulation channels
audience and user analysis - Correct Answer-study the consumption, enjoyment and
use
, media conglomerate study perspectives (3) - Correct Answer-1- infrastructure, density,
and specialization. 2 - ideology: attitude, pervasiveness, and penetration. 3 - structure:
charts, lists, webs, networks
3 perspectives on using media moguls as a means to study media industries - Correct
Answer-personalization, teleology, evolutionary structure
personalization - Correct Answer-study media industries by studying the paths of
moguls. gives a clear time frame (rise-death), narrative of individualization, method of
biography, presents history as personal stories. Essentially looking at media industries
through the perspective of a given media mogul.
Media Industry - Correct Answer-the collection of businesses that allows information to
be shared. This includes operations such as radio broadcasts, websites, and
newspapers. Jobs that are commonly available in media include positions for
journalists, photographers, and producers
The relationship between Media Industries, Creative Industries, and Cultural Industries -
Correct Answer-they're the SAME lol nice one Zach ya ~dumbdumb~'!*#`~
Industry - Correct Answer-a mode of organization to produce, and distribute something
in capitalist economies (ex. audio/visual content). AND institutions and their
interrelationships in networks of commerce, nationally and internationally
teleology - Correct Answer-analyzing media industries from a grand narrative
perspective, looking at the major players and a linear history, and a trajectory of
fulfillment and accomplishment. Neglects the hidden hand. Essentially looking at media
industries by analyzing the major players in the industry.
evolutionary structure - Correct Answer-??? check email back from ernest
Piracy: Authorship - Correct Answer-Intellectual Patent Law tends to favour forms of
cultural production in which Western cultural industries specialize
Piracy: Resistance - Correct Answer-Seen from this perspective, copyright is a legal
institution that converts information and labor into capital for the benefit of a few
corporations. Piracy as a rejection of this economic order, has a certain political value.
Piracy: Access - Correct Answer-in this view, piracy is a democratization of information
Media Stardom - Correct Answer-The collective effort to make and circulate the media
identities of stars (this is the system). Historically, this was an in-house creation. The
star system survived the crash of the vertical-integrated studio system.
Exam
Media Concentration - Correct Answer-The gathering of ownership of newspapers and
other media in the hands of a few large corporations.
Public Media - Correct Answer-legislation, regulation, subsidy are policy. Media are a
public utility, a national resource, and is power/control
Six Faces of Piracy (6) - Correct Answer-theft, Free Enterprise, Free Speech,
authorship, Resistance, access
Piracy: Theft - Correct Answer-Piracy is not theft. It is the taking away of the copyright
holder's exclusive right. Some view piracy as stealing, but it is not.
Piracy: Free Enterprise - Correct Answer-Piracy can be viewed as an extreme version
of free enterprise, or extreme laissez-faire capitalism
Piracy: Free Speech - Correct Answer-it is argued by some that the future of free
speech is being compromised by increasingly limiting copyright laws. Consumer rights
are being compromised, and the future of innovation is at stake.
Cultural Industries - Correct Answer-institutions in our society which employ the
characteristic modes of production and organization of industrial corporations to
produce and disseminate symbols in the form of cultural goods and services, generally,
though not exclusively, as commodities OR the signifying system through which
necessarily a social order is communicated, reproduced, experienced and explored
examples of media industries - Correct Answer-sport, design, theme parks, architecture,
performing arts, fashion, software
textual analysis - Correct Answer-study the product
political economy analysis - Correct Answer-study the ownership structures of
circulation channels
audience and user analysis - Correct Answer-study the consumption, enjoyment and
use
, media conglomerate study perspectives (3) - Correct Answer-1- infrastructure, density,
and specialization. 2 - ideology: attitude, pervasiveness, and penetration. 3 - structure:
charts, lists, webs, networks
3 perspectives on using media moguls as a means to study media industries - Correct
Answer-personalization, teleology, evolutionary structure
personalization - Correct Answer-study media industries by studying the paths of
moguls. gives a clear time frame (rise-death), narrative of individualization, method of
biography, presents history as personal stories. Essentially looking at media industries
through the perspective of a given media mogul.
Media Industry - Correct Answer-the collection of businesses that allows information to
be shared. This includes operations such as radio broadcasts, websites, and
newspapers. Jobs that are commonly available in media include positions for
journalists, photographers, and producers
The relationship between Media Industries, Creative Industries, and Cultural Industries -
Correct Answer-they're the SAME lol nice one Zach ya ~dumbdumb~'!*#`~
Industry - Correct Answer-a mode of organization to produce, and distribute something
in capitalist economies (ex. audio/visual content). AND institutions and their
interrelationships in networks of commerce, nationally and internationally
teleology - Correct Answer-analyzing media industries from a grand narrative
perspective, looking at the major players and a linear history, and a trajectory of
fulfillment and accomplishment. Neglects the hidden hand. Essentially looking at media
industries by analyzing the major players in the industry.
evolutionary structure - Correct Answer-??? check email back from ernest
Piracy: Authorship - Correct Answer-Intellectual Patent Law tends to favour forms of
cultural production in which Western cultural industries specialize
Piracy: Resistance - Correct Answer-Seen from this perspective, copyright is a legal
institution that converts information and labor into capital for the benefit of a few
corporations. Piracy as a rejection of this economic order, has a certain political value.
Piracy: Access - Correct Answer-in this view, piracy is a democratization of information
Media Stardom - Correct Answer-The collective effort to make and circulate the media
identities of stars (this is the system). Historically, this was an in-house creation. The
star system survived the crash of the vertical-integrated studio system.
