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MAS 101 - Exam 1 2025/2026 Exam
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Where did the term "media" come from? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔"Media" is a plural
form of Medium borrowed directly from Latin
What is Mass Media? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The utilization of media to transmit info
to a large audience
What is Culture? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The customs, arts, social institutions, and
achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group
What is a Media Citizen? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Expected to care about the common
good; Civic duties such as voting, shaping values
What is a Media Producer? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A creator of content that sends
messages into the world
What is a Media Consumer? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Takes messages in from the world
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What is Symbolic Annihilation? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When certain groups of people
are not shown in media texts, they symbolically don't exist; i.e. out of sight, out of
mind
What is "High Culture"? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Associated with good tatse. Includes
Ballets, Museums, Opera's, Classic Literature. High Culture is typically timeless,
educational, rare, and has more uplift
What is "Low Culture" and what is often associated with it? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Pop(ular) Culture is low culture. It is typically trendy, mindless, formulaic,
panders, and commercialized. Examples can include reality TV, pop music, video
games
What is Media Literacy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔understanding of how media construct
meaning which leads us to become critical consumers of media products
What is Niche Nation? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Society in which people navigate a more
varied and complex media landscape
What is the marketplace of ideas? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the public forum in which
beliefs and ideas are exchanged and compete; i.e. the cream rises to the top
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MAS 101 - Exam 1 2025/2026 Exam
Questions and Answers | A+ Score
Assured
Where did the term "media" come from? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔"Media" is a plural
form of Medium borrowed directly from Latin
What is Mass Media? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The utilization of media to transmit info
to a large audience
What is Culture? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The customs, arts, social institutions, and
achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group
What is a Media Citizen? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Expected to care about the common
good; Civic duties such as voting, shaping values
What is a Media Producer? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A creator of content that sends
messages into the world
What is a Media Consumer? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Takes messages in from the world
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COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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What is Symbolic Annihilation? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When certain groups of people
are not shown in media texts, they symbolically don't exist; i.e. out of sight, out of
mind
What is "High Culture"? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Associated with good tatse. Includes
Ballets, Museums, Opera's, Classic Literature. High Culture is typically timeless,
educational, rare, and has more uplift
What is "Low Culture" and what is often associated with it? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Pop(ular) Culture is low culture. It is typically trendy, mindless, formulaic,
panders, and commercialized. Examples can include reality TV, pop music, video
games
What is Media Literacy? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔understanding of how media construct
meaning which leads us to become critical consumers of media products
What is Niche Nation? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Society in which people navigate a more
varied and complex media landscape
What is the marketplace of ideas? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the public forum in which
beliefs and ideas are exchanged and compete; i.e. the cream rises to the top
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
