Chapter 15 Quiz 2

Question 1

What is considered to be the founding book in American media studies?

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Question 2

Which of the following is a criticism of depending on opinion polls for political insight?

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Question 3

What did the Payne Fund Studies of the early 1930s link to juvenile delinquency, promiscuity, and other problematic behaviors?

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Question 4

The rise of commercial radio led to the first _____.

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Question 5

Which of the following sometimes pays consumers for participation?

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Question 6

Which of the following theories about how media affects individual behaviors argues that people retain messages that confirm values and attitudes they already hold?

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Question 7

According to Joseph Klapper, media has the strongest effect on individuals who are _______.

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Question 8

_____ usually takes place in academic or government settings.

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Question 9

Which of the following is true of a control group in an experiment?

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Question 10

The Columbine massacre has been used as an example of ___________.

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Question 11

_____ involves interpreting written and visual “texts” or artifacts as symbols that contain cultural, historical, and political meaning.

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Question 12

Which book was considered the first serious academic analysis of television programs?

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Question 13

An innovation of textual analysis was that it ___________.

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Question 14

The book Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature is an example of a(n) ________.

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The book Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Literature is an example of a(n) ________.
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Question 15

Who has been a leading advocate of efforts to rewrite the nation’s copyright laws to enable noncommercial “amateur culture” to flourish on the Internet?

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