COM 6640
In 1985, the United States withdrew from UNESCO, citing three major problems. In 2002, the US resumed its affiliation with UNESCO but has since left again. Which of the following was not a reason why the US withdrew from UNESCO in 1985?
*NOT-New directions in leadership The promulgation of statist concepts The politicization of issues Mismanagement and fiscal irresponsibility
Which of the following is considered the world's oldest news agency?
Agence France-Presse
The company responsible for the majority of online sales in China is _____________.
Alibaba
Labels owned by Warner Music include all of the following EXCEPT
Arista
According to your textbook, more residents on this continent use the Internet than any other. Which continent is this?
Asia
European versions of such US‐based magazines as Maxim, Playboy, and Forbes arepublished by
Axel Springer
What news agency faced criticism when they pulled a story about a news personality who was accused of sexually assaulting hundreds of boys and girls? Other news outlets covered the story.
BBC
What news agency attracts the second largest audience globally?
BBC TV
The company sometimes described as "the Chinese Google" is ___________________.
Baidu
A news source especially well known for its "listicles" is
BuzzFeed
What agency provided the only global live coverage of the first Gulf War?
CNN
According to your textbook, the second fastest computer is called Titan and is housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The world's fastest computer comes from which country?
China
While there has certainly been change over the last 30 years, media in China are still thought of and used as the mouthpiece for what?
Chinese Communist Party
CNN's first broadcast was on June 1, 1980. It was the start of the network "scooping" much of its competition. As part of its first broadcast, CNN provided what story to viewers live that other stations and networks held for their major evening newscasts?
Civil rights leader Vernon Jordan was shot
In 2011, this was the largest US cable operator. It owns the Golf Channel and E! Entertainment. What is this company?
Comcast
Melissa, MyDoom, and Love Letter are examples of these that affect electronic mail and other computer files with extremely damaging results. These are examples of what?
Computer Virus
Which one of these movies was not a remake of a Japanese film?
Crazy Rich Asians
The "Big Four" ad agencies include all of the following EXCEPT ___________________.
Dentsu
The International Telecommunications Union works through four major sectors. Two of these sectors are telecommunications and radiocommunications. What are the other two?
Development and Standardization
ESPN is the worldwide leader in sports broadcasting, reaching over 80 million homes, according to your textbook. Eighty percent of ESPN is owned by ABC. Which company controls ABC and ESPN?
Disney
What is the world's largest communication empire, with an estimated annual revenue of around $38 billion (or more than $55 billion if using the fifth edition book), according to your textbook?
Disney
Which communication organization was established in 1977 to operate satellite systems for Europe and elsewhere? It has since expanded its operations to other areas including Africa and the Middle East where it offers a broad range of information and broadcasting services.
Eutelsat Communicaitons
According to your textbook, development journalism serves essentially to promote the needs of developing countries. It discourages indigenous media but encourages reproduction of Western media models, which debase, challenge or marginalize local and traditional cultures.
F
In your textbook, you have read of many international organizations that aid and/or benefit nations around the world. One such group represents the nucleus of oil-rich, non-aligned countries in the Middle East. This group is known as the New International Economic Order (NIEO).
F
It is important to note that most of the international communication industry is owned and controlled by giant core nations, mainly in the form of European, US, Japanese, and South African transnational communication conglomerates.
F
Several Latin American countries have experienced political, economic and social turmoil since the end of World War Two. Nations such as Argentina, Colombia and Chile face media obstacles/barriers on a frequent basis. One of those barriers involves holdover authoritarian laws and policies that chill assertive reporting.
F
The Cambridge Analytica scandal involved ________________.
Although Google and Facebook run ads, they account for less than 1% of all global ad spending.
False
In 1987, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) elected a new director-general. During his time from 1987 until 1999, he issued a new communication strategy, stressing the Western principles of freedom of press and freedom of expression, and the development of an independent and pluralistic media. Who was this director-general?
Ferico Mayor
Bloomberg focuses especially on which type of news?
Financial
What news agency leads in the U.S. market?
Fox News
Deezer is based in
France
A country with the potential to dominate in future global advertising is _____________.
France India China UK
Almost the entire body of literature dealing with international communication since World War Two has been guided and influenced by three schools of thought (major research traditions). Two are structuralism and professionalism. What is the third?
Functionalism
Axel Springer is based in
Germany
A term which suggests that world media may be characterized by elements which areboth local and global is
Glocalization
The so‐called "mobilegeddon" phenomenon pertains most directly to _________________.
The news agency Agence France‐Presse is historically related to the ad agency known as ______________.
Havas
Which of the following was created to be a commercial alternative to BBC televisionin the UK?
ITV
In 2009, what country released almost twice the number of films as the U.S.?
India
Which mobile satellite service company, based in the United Kingdom, was founded in 1979 to provide ships at sea with a telephone service via satellite? Through the use of new technologies, it now serves ships, airlines, media , governments with global satellite services?
Inmarsat
What was formed in 1965 to provide international satellite communication services? HINT: From the beginning, the United States was the major participant.
Intelsat
Your textbook refers to this as the cultural, economic, political, social, and technological analysis of communication and media patterns and effects across and between nation states. What is this?
International Communicaiton
A company viewed as the world's largest outdoor advertising company is _____________.
JCDecaux
Dentsu is based in ____________.
Japan
What country's films make up more than 60% of the global animation market?
Japan
In the capitalist world economy, most of the world's nations are divided into three groups: Core, Semiperiphery, and Periphery. Which of the following countries does not belong in the semiperiphery group?
Kenya
At the 21st General Assembly of UNESCO, approval of a version of the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) was granted as well as the acceptance of a report which clearly endorsed activities that would promote development journalism and communication. Which commission compiled this report that is still heralded as a landmark document?
MacBride Commission
During the 1980s, a commission was formed to look into the inequities in the distribution of telecommunications systems and services between core and other nations. Among other findings, it discovered that 75% of the world's population live in countries with fewer than 10 telephones per 100 people and that more than half the world has access to less than one telephone per 100 people. What was this commission known as?
Maitland Commission
Which renowned media scholar (who died in 1980 but is regarded as a 'prophet' of the information age) came up with the theory of the "global village" where communication systems are capable of importing images, data, and sounds from around the corner or around the globe, with similar technologies and similar effects?
Marshall McLuhan
PR Newswire is based in
New York
When we think of Wall Street, one name comes to mind: The Dow Jones Company. It is known for its two assets, The Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones Industrial Average which consists of 30 blue chip US corporations. Which corporation acquired The Dow Jones Company in 2006?
News Corp
In 2004, the second largest global media company announced that it was moving its headquarters from Australia to the United States, confirming the status of the US as the most important multimedia market in the world. What is this company?
News Corporation
A report that documents the growing use of information and communication technologies, particularly mobile phone and social media usage in developing countries, also notes that how much of the world's population is now online?
One Third (33%)
In 2010 the total export of Korean music products was $8.3 million - an increase of more than 166% over 2009. But, in 2012, this artist or group made $8.1 million off of one song.
PSy
Your textbook suggests that news editors realize that when a usually negative major news story breaks somewhere in a peripheral nation, they can dispatch a crew and reporters to the location in a relatively short period time owing to the ease of airline travel and the portability of equipment. This phenomenon is known as what?
Parachute Journalism
A company which has merged with Random House is
Penguin
What reporter became a media "superstar" due to his work covering the first Gulf War?
Peter Arnett
What is the name of a world-class computer animation firm that was purchased in 1986 by Steve Jobs of the Apple Corporation?
Pixar
Which of the following is a performing rights organization?
SESAC (1930)
Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn are popular examples of what communication method?
Social Networking
The first nation in which digital music sales surpassed physical sales was
South Korea
More than half of the nations in the world, those in the peripheral regions, still place some restrictions on journalists or media outlets.
T
The majority of music streaming in China is handled by
Tencent
The MEDIA Sub‐Program is a project spearheaded by
The European Union
The newspaper regarded as the world's oldest Sunday newspaper is
The Observer
The newspaper regarded as the world's largest daily English broadsheet newspaper is
The Times of India
Many media corporations based in Europe and North America have reduced their numbers of reporters in Asia, Latin America, and Africa because of three reasons: ** The ease of air travel and the relative portability of equipment. ** The perception of a lack of interest among editors and management in routine events in distant lands. What is the third significant reason?
The cost of stationing full-time reporters in foreign bureaus
The golden age of international news coverage lasted from the 1940s to the end of the 1980s. Yet, the amount of international news coverage overall, particularly in the US is declining, according to author T. L. McPhail. Which of the following is not a reason for the decline?
The decrease in television interest in global affairs
Which giant communications organization has CNN, TNT, Cinemax, and HBO as some of its major properties?
Time Warner
The first substantial blogger-driven event was a focused Internet attack in 2002 on a powerful Mississippi Republican Senator. He had allegedly made some inappropriate racist comments at a party. Who was this senator?
Trent Lott
Each year, the World Bank publishes its World Development Report which identifies factors that promote sustainable development. The 1998 report marked a dramatic shift by regarding communication as central to future development. Among the lessons that were particularly important to the welfare of the people in developing countries was the suggestion that developing countries must institute policies that enable them to narrow the knowledge gaps separating poor countries from the rich ones.
True
Electronic Colonialism Theory posits that mass media when exported carry with them a broad range of values. These values are economic, social, cultural, and sometimes political or religious in nature.
True
Electronic colonialism represents the dependent relationship of poorer regions on the post-industrial nations which is caused and established by the importation of communication hardware and foreign-produced software, along with engineers, technicians and related information protocols.
True
Mediaset is the largest commercial broadcaster in Italy
True
The International Network for Cultural Development was established in 1998 to defend cultural expression and cultural diversity, and to promote national and multilingual cultural expression.
True
Which country today stands alone as the world's only superpower?
U.S.A
In 2012, the United States withdrew its affiliation with a worldwide organization. According to your textbook, this withdrawal was a reflection and a consequence of the widespread negative view some United Nation member states have of the US. They do not like the arrogant and sometimes offensive actions of the United States. This organization has a long name but is more commonly referred to by its acronym. What is this organization?
UNESCO
Which diversified entertainment and publishing company (which was spun off from CBS in 1971) has operations in broadcasting, entertainment, video and music/theme parks? HINT: It owns Nickelodeon, MTV, Paramount Pictures, and BET.
Viacom
An ad agency which has been collaborating with Nielsen is _________________.
Vivendi WWP Interpublic Dentsu
Deutsche Welle is a short-wave radio service that transmits programming specifically designed for international audiences. Which short-wave radio service transmits programming globally from the US?
Voices of America
The company considered the world's largest advertising and PR group is________________.
WPP
In the 1970s, two junior reporters for a major US newspaper pursued a lead that ultimately led to the resignation of of President Richard Nixon. The Watergate scandal reinvigorated a latent distrust of government regulations and demonstrated to the American people as well as those in other core nations the need for a press free from government control. These reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, worked for which newspaper when Watergate was the hot topic of the day?
Washington Post
Who was the first foreign war correspondent for the London Times? HINT: During his tenure with the newspaper, his reports were so interesting and popular that several factors emerged from his coverage including the fact that the number of London-based journalists assigned to cover the US Civil War in the 1860s skyrocketed.
William Harold Russell
In the late 1990s, UNESCO produced a major document that began to detail the information resources in almost 200 countries around the globe. It provided extensive documentation of computer-based information-processing, including the shift toward multimedia, telecommunications, and electronic databases. What was the name of this report?
World Information Report
The world's fastest computer comes from which country?
World Wide Web
Which of the following has been noted as the world's top music streaming service?
YouTube
TV viewing behavior has been shifting toward all of the following EXCEPT_________________.
a linear model
Which of these is not mentioned in the book or video as a reason for loss of market share for CNN?
a shift in viewer political opinion
The term "cultural cringe" suggests an acceptance of cultural imperialism on the partof some nations, because of
an inferiority complex
The Berne Convention is the oldest and most significant international treaty in thearea of
copyright *****COM EXAM
The music industry's largest single revenue source is
streaming subscription
Which of the following is a transnational media association of professionalbroadcasters?
the EBU
Reuters is based in
the UK & England
RSS is used for
web-based subscriptions
