A. cultural imperialism
B. rise of digital media
C. virtual communities
D. the US is not the largest global exporter of films
Technology & Media
Who famously stated the medium is the message……………?
A. Manuel Castells
B. Marshall McLuhan
C. Howard Rheingold
D. Karl Marx
What term is used to describe the phenomenon whereby newspapers can be read online radio stations accessed on digital televisions and mobile phones enable internet access ?
A. mediatization
B. convergence
C. globalization
D. cloud computing
A decline in which of the following does Putnam link to the spread of television ?
A. rational though
B. social capital
C. cultural capital
D. political awareness
According to Manual Castells which is the defining organizational structure of our age ?
A. bureaucracy
B. networks
C. hierarchy
D. conglomerates
Which of the following is not a characteristic of ideology according to the critical conception of ideology ?
A. neutral
B. misleading
C. illusory
D. distorting
Critics of the spread of Western cultural products across the globe argue that a cultural empire has been created What term do they use to describe this …………?
A. media saturation
B. media globalization
C. media penetration
D. media imperialism
The term culture industry used by members of the Frankfurt School referred to…………….?
A. the globalization of cultural through new technologies
B. the way in which culture products were bought and sold for profit
C. the development of subcultures and counter-cultures society
D. the way in which industrialization had created new means of communication
The print revolution of the nineteenth century resulted in………….?
A. mass production mass circulation and the decline of serious content
B. the public ownership of newspapers as a shared resource
C. more people going to the cinema as a new leisure activity
D. a reduction of virtual communities on the internet
Walt Disney Sony and Time Warner are examples of…………….?
A. transnational corporations
B. multi-media empires
C. ownership concentrated within one medium
D. government-owned companies