What is the correct order of the three largest film producers in the world?
Correct answer A. India, Nigeria, USA
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Which theoretical approach to the media does Noam Chomsky’s work illustrate?
Correct answer D. Political economy
According to Jean Baudrillard, what is hyperreality?
Correct answer B. The merging of reality and media representations
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According to Marshall McLuhan, what are the electronic media creating?
Correct answer C. Global village
In which year was the World Wide Web invented at a Swiss physics laboratory?
Correct answer C. 1990
The Frankfurt School built on Marx’s work, but which factor did its members argue he had underemphasised?
Correct answer D. Culture
Which approach to audience studies stresses how different audiences use the media to meet their own needs?
Correct answer C. Gratifications model
What does mass-society theory suggest?
Correct answer B. The media manipulate the masses as vulnerable passive consumers
According to Karl Marx, the revolt of the proletariat as a social movement would help workers overcome what?
Correct answer B. False consciousness
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The term ‘culture industry’, used by members of the Frankfurt School, referred to?
Correct answer B. The way in which cultural products were bought and sold for profit
Which term did Charles Perrow introduce for failures that are inevitable given the way human and technological systems are organised?
Correct answer B. Normal accidents
Nineteenth-century theories of social change drew on pioneering work in biological evolution by whom?
Correct answer D. Charles Darwin
Which sociological perspective tends to play down change?
Correct answer C. Functionalist perspective
Which social economist coined the term ‘vested interests’?
Correct answer D. Thorstein Veblen
Which is the most all-encompassing form of collective behaviour?
Correct answer D. Social movements
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Early internet users’ use of terms such as ‘flaming’ and ‘chat rooms’ is an example of what?
Correct answer C. Argot