Media and Culture Reading Quiz

QUESTION 1 1. The 1940s and 1950s are considered the Golden Age of television. During this time, which genre was popular with early adopters of television but no longer as popular as ratings expanded? a highbrow drama anthologies . b comedic variety shows . c music and theater productions . that were aired with no commercial interruptions d crime programs that actively involved the viewer in the action of . the story 3 points QUESTION 2 1. Government regulation has not played a significant role in the evolution of television. True False 3 points QUESTION 3 1. The FCC's temporary freeze on new television stations instituted between 1948 and 1952 contributed to NBC, ABC, and CBS becoming the Big Three dominant broadcast networks. True False 3 points QUESTION 4 1. What is the current status of the Fairness Doctrine, which at one time required television to cover controversial issues or give advocates of opposing views the right to reply? a The television industry has voluntarily adopted it. . b The Federal Communications Commission abolished . c The U.S. Supreme Court struck it down in 2000. . d Congress reinstated it in 2003. . it in 1996. 3 points QUESTION 5 1. Must carry is the policy that requires cable companies to carry local broadcast signals. True False 3 points QUESTION 6 1. Which of the following was the first pay TV network? Home Box Office (HBO) b Dish Network a . . c Showtime . d Direct TV . Networks 3 points QUESTION 7 1. The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to finance programming from federal tax funds. True False 3 points QUESTION 8 1. In the 1970s, Time Warner experimented and succeeded in developing the first interactive cable system called Qube. True False 3 points QUESTION 9 1. The Nielsen Company determines television ratings using randomly selected households so every home has an equal chance of being included. True False 3 points QUESTION 10 1. PBS now follows a centralized programming decision-making model, similar to commercial networks. True False 3 points Q U E S T I O N 11 1. __________ are the jumbles of letters and punctuation marks that indicate the network addresses of content stored on Web servers. a Portals . b HTML . c Uniform resource . d Phishing . locators (URLs) 3 points QUESTION 12 Web 2.0 is used when a message is written in a secret code. 1. True False 3 points QUESTION 13 1. Originally called ARPANET, and funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Internet was developed to continue weapons research at laboratories including in the event of a nuclear war. True False 3 points QUESTION 14 1. What law requires libraries and schools to filter out inappropriate content on their computers? a the Communications Decency . Act b the CANSPAM law . c . the Child Online Privacy Protection Act d the Children’s Internet . Protection Act 3 points QUESTION 15 1. __________ is used when a message is written in a secret code to protect its content. a Protocol . b Symbolism . c Encryption . d Technology . 3 points QUESTION 16 Web pages that users launch when they first log on to the Web are called: 1. a . b . c . d . portals URLs protocols I P addresses 3 points QUESTION 17 1. Facing threats by sites such as Google that can offer easily accessible news stories about current events, most legacy media such as newspapers are now trying to __________. a advocate for government subsidies to support legacy media . b . c . d . team up with international newspapers to build a larger consumer base advocate for tighter restrictions on online content move into online-only publications 3 points QUESTION 18 1. Transmission-control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP) is used to format pages on the Web. True False 3 points QUESTION 19 1. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) was formed as a nonprofit private corporation to oversee the assignment of Internet addresses (called domain names) and to develop new ones. True False 3 points QUESTION 20 1. Wide area networks (WANs) connect computers that are miles apart. True False