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

Which term was used by Talcott Parsons in asserting that society tends toward a state of stability or balance ?

A. Charisma
B. Magnetism
C. Equilibrium
D. Status quo