COMM 10 Quizzes

When bell hooks uses the term "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" she does so intentionally to signal ______

that systems of domination are interlocking

Benedict Anderson's region of scholarly expertise is ______________________ ?

East Asia

Goffman feels that the impressions that a person makes in a social setting and the inferences the audience draws when observing a person are ultimately unimportant aspects of social interaction.

False

Horkheimer and Adorno feel that the problem with the industry of mass culture is that it acts like it's a business but doesn't really make nearly the same amount of money as other industries, like car manufacturing.

False

In the chapter "Popular Culture: Media Masculinity" bell hooks thinks that the tendency of television and film to represent men as wandering loners who are disconnected from others, stoic, and emotionally distant is a good thing in that it helps young boys imagine themselves as not dependent on any one else.

False

In the constructionist view, systems of meaning never change.

False

Iranian's use of Twitter in 2009 helped lead to the immediate renunciation of then President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which is why Western foreign policy officials and pundits rightly considered Twitter a revolutionary platform, according to Morozov

False

The Chicano speech that Anzaldua describes has no dialectical variation

False

Williams thinks that to understand the social implication of a given technology you must isolate it from its social and historical context.

False

Zuboff does not see an incompatibility between democracy and what she calls a surveillance society.

False

Which of the following best characterizes Williams's take on technodeterminism?

It is simplistic and does not account for causes and symptoms of wider societal transformations that it itself is caught up in

In the beginning of the reading, Anderson speaks about Marxist and Liberal theory to say that those theoretical positions largely failed to factor the rise of nationalism into their analysis, and that paying attention to longer historical trends as they came together in the 18th century is more helpful to understand the rise of nationalism?

True

When Google withdrew from China in 2010, the western media made it out to be a principled stand against hacking and censorship, however Morozov saw th decision as

a rational business decision

Which of the following best describes Anzaldua's conceptualization of the border

a zone of cultural contact that extends into psychological and spiritual dimensions

hooks analyzes Good Will Hunting and sees it as an exception to a broader trend in popular culture's representations of men. Why?

because the main character ultimately chooses love and connection at odds as opposed to standard patriarchal tropes

In the last four pages of the essay, the authors make a critique of freedom — in its mass mediated form in the US. All of the following are subtexts of that critique, except:

freedom is hard to find but the captains of industry achieve it through the fortunes they amass

All of the following are lines of critique that Morozov makes about the conflation of internet-access and democratization, except:

it ignores the way that authoritarian governments use the internet to crack down on protesters, censor, and propagandize

All of the following are lines of critique that Horkheimer and Adorno make, except:

mass culture are financially successful because its representations are detailed and spontaneously, unconcerned with conforming to established styles

Goffman makes an effort to define the terms that are the basis of his analysis. All of the following are terms that are central to his dramaturgical analysis, except:

observation deck

Hall categories theories of representation into all of the following, except:

presumptivist

All of the following constitute ways that, according to Anderson, "print capitalism" helped forge the imagined communities of nations, EXCEPT.

print capitalism created a wave of comic books that made people laugh and thereby fail to recognize the imminence of their political subjugation under then-emerging nationalist regimes

For Ferdinand de Saussure, the sign was made up of which two elements.

signifier/signified

Which of the following best represents what Zuboff means when she uses the term "epistemic coup"?

tech companies have datafied people's experience and claimed it as their own property, which they then control and cash in on with little regard for democratic norms

Raymond Williams is interested primarily in which medium of communication in this week's reading?

television

The PBS program, "The United States of Conspiracy" documents Alex Jones's involvement with all of the following conspiracies, except:

that former President Trump has entered into an unholy alliance with a global network phantom jihadists

What is the most important part of a "front" in a convincing social performance?

that it be consistend and stable to define the situation

In the first few pages of the reading, Robin Lakoff lays out a central paradox that women find themselves in. Which of the following best represents that paradox.

women are socialized to use "feminine" speech that is not assertive or confident yet are then not taken seriously as full contributors to society