Mass Communications Social Media and Video Games

What video game was created in 1961?

Spacewar! was created by a group of MIT students who got access to a $120,000 PDP-1 minicomputer

How many people are on Facebook Worldwide?

2.4 billion making it the biggest coventional social network

How many daily users does Snapchat have?

229 million

How many people used Twitter by 2017?

330 million

What percent of people ages 18-29 use YouTube?

91%

Who was the engineer hired by Bushnell to create a gaming system?

Al Alcorn

Who wanted to create an artificially intelligent machine that was good enough at interacting that we did not know whether it was a person or machine?

Alan Turing

What gaming console really launched home video game console market?

Atari 2600, which was around $200 at the time of it's introduction in 1977

Who was the first company to really popularize video games?

Atari, which was founded by Nolan Bushnell

Why is Facebook so attractive to advertisers?

Because they will be able to reach exactly the customers that they want based on information people have shared on Facebook

What was the biggest struggle with early video games?

Being able to display video games with inexpensive off-the-shelf electronic parts

Who can use Twitter as a tool

Businesses can, to create a feeling of a two-way relationship with their customers

What are two important changes that happened to Instagram?

Certain tools made it clearer when people were posting sponsered items and the other was when Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012

What game did Turing want to use to display the computer's intelligence?

Chess

What were the first few posts on Instagram?

Cofounder Mike Krieger posted a filtered image of a marina and Kevin Systrom posted a picture of himself

What did the Federal Trade Commission do in 2019?

Fined TikTok $5.7 million for improperly collecting information about children under age thirteen

What company bought out the founders?

Google bought out the founders the year after the site was created and it has grown into the biggest video-sharing site online

How did Bushnell afford such a large project?

He sold his company to Warner Communications in 1976

What happened to Turing in 1952?

He was arrested when the police came to his house to investigate a burglary, and then he confessed to have a physical relationship with a man

What prompted Zukerberg to create Facebook?

Him and his friends believed that it was obvious that there would be a giant social network of people online

When and what was the world's first video game to be demonstrated?

In 1958 at an open house at Brookhaven National Laboratory and it was called Tennis for Two

What social media platforms target more younger audiences?

Instagram and Snapchat

What is one problem with Snapchat?

It has trouble making money

What did Twitter start as?

It started as microblogging service project while they were working for podcasting company Odeo

Who and when was Facebook created?

It was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg while he was a student at Harvard

Who and when was Instagram founded?

It was created in 2010 by Mike Kreiger and Kevin Systrom

Who and when was YouTube founded by?

It was founded by Chad, Hurley, Steven Chen, and Jawed Karim in 2002 after eBay bought out PayPal

Who and when was Twitter founded?

It was founded in 2006 by three college dropouts: Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone

What was part of the reason the game was such a success?

It was very simple to play: Deposit quarter, ball will serve automatically, avoid missing ball for high score

What made Snapchat stand out?

It's differences from Facebook, including auto-disappearing photos and messages

Did Turing get a lot of recognition for this when he was alive?

No he did not, in part because his work was secret, but he was also gay

What was the problem though with the program he wrote?

None of the computers in the 1940s were capable of running the program

What game really put Atari on the map?

Pong

Who invented a somewhat inexpensive gaming console?

Ralph Baer when he created the Magnavox Odyssey system

What concerns people about TikTok?

Since it is a Chinese company it follows Chinese censorship rules

What is a social network?

Social networks connect individuals or groups over a common platform. Once connected, the human tendency to share information or chat becomes the driving force, creating a mind-boggling amount of information and traffic.

Why was YouTube made?

The founders experienced that while sharing photos was easy, sharing videos was a struggle. They essentially created a platform that made it easy for people to share videos with others

What is unique about Twitter?

The messages could originally be no longer than 140 characters which has now been adjusted to 280 characters

Where did they test out the Atari gaming system and what problem did they run into?

They tested at the gaming system at a nearby bar, and the coin box was overflowed with quarters causing it to not work

What was the machine's ability to mimic a human's intelligence called?

Turing Test

What things make social media, social?

User-Generated Content, Comments, Tagging, Social Networking, Customization

Who created Tennis for Two?

William Higinbotham

When was TikTok the top downloaded app?

Winter of 2019/2020

What are the most popular social networks?

YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter, WhatsApp, and TikTok