Exam 10: Online Media: The Internet, Social Media, and Video Games

The Uniform Resource Locator (URL)is the address of content placed on the web.

The World Wide Web became the standard for posting documents on the Internet because its creator did which of the following?

The purpose of hypertext is to let people move electronically from one document to another without necessarily knowing which computers the documents are located on.

The word cyberspace is used to mean which of the following?

One of the big advantages of distributing a movie over the Internet instead of in theaters is which of the following?

Websites use ______ to track users while they are on the site.

Approximately 43% of the people living on the African continent have access to the Internet.

By 2018,89% of American adults were online in one way or another.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of online media?

By 2018,less than half of Americans were online with mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

______ are a major new medium of mass communication?

Fandor is an online service that provides ______.

In a brief essay,discuss how cell phones and user-generated video sites such as YouTube can be used as a channel for citizen journalism.

Name two of the three ways you can post messages to the social networking tool Twitter.

What is reverse synergy?

In a brief essay,discuss how bloggers can serve as a force to correct mistaken news published by legacy media.

Video games could be considered a new mass medium because ______.

Twitter was originally created so people could share their answers to this question.

ARPAnet,a predecessor of the Internet,was created to do which of the following?

Social media are online services that allow users to ______.