CMI 3358 TEST 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Media industries affect how we perceive: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Other people, other cultures, other
nations, our culture, and ourselves.
True or False: Media outlets have a direct influence on how we perceive reality - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
Some of the consequences of global media are: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Excessive information,
globalized dominant cultures, and free labor to generate media content
Global media content is generally controlled by: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The economic, political,
cultural, and social elites
What media channels were used to spark the Egyptian revolution in 2011 - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, TV, and cellphones
Martin Luther was: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A German priest who in the 1500s used the printing press
to fight against the excessive power of the Catholic church
True or False: Globalization has affected people in different ways, some of them positive, some of them
negative - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Some specific positive outcomes of global media technologies are: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅People can
achieve better cultural understanding, the world has "shrunk" thanks to media technologies, people
who were historically marginalized have more opportunities nowadays
What is "the global village"? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan to describe
the world that has been "shrunk" by modern advances in media technologies
Who was Marshall McLuhan? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A Canadian scholar who was able to predict the
current state of media in the 1960s
Media industries affect how we perceive: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Other people, other cultures, other
nations, our culture, and ourselves.
True or False: Media outlets have a direct influence on how we perceive reality - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅True
Some of the consequences of global media are: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Excessive information,
globalized dominant cultures, and free labor to generate media content
Global media content is generally controlled by: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The economic, political,
cultural, and social elites
What media channels were used to spark the Egyptian revolution in 2011 - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, TV, and cellphones
Martin Luther was: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A German priest who in the 1500s used the printing press
to fight against the excessive power of the Catholic church
True or False: Globalization has affected people in different ways, some of them positive, some of them
negative - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅True
Some specific positive outcomes of global media technologies are: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅People can
achieve better cultural understanding, the world has "shrunk" thanks to media technologies, people
who were historically marginalized have more opportunities nowadays
What is "the global village"? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan to describe
the world that has been "shrunk" by modern advances in media technologies
Who was Marshall McLuhan? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A Canadian scholar who was able to predict the
current state of media in the 1960s
