Exam 6: Communication and Mass Media

List three benefits of social media and discuss.

In Canada,the newspaper industry is becoming increasingly concentrated with fewer corporate owners.

An anthropologist in the Yucatan peninsula discovers an ancient Mayan temple,the sides of which are adorned by complex hieroglyphs documenting aspects of the Mayan people's lives.What kind of media are hieroglyphs?

Randall argues that media consumers are programmed to buy,eat,dress and vote in ways that suit those who control the mass media.What school of thought has Randall adopted?

According to the text,which form of media are Facebook,Instagram,and Twitter examples of?

According to the textbook,what was the biggest Canadian media conglomerate based on annual revenue in 2014?

In Canada,how many companies control the Internet,newspapers,television,radio,and telephone?

What is a prosumer? Discuss,making connections to your personal experiences.

Sam noticed that when he used BitTorrent to download movies at a friend's house,the download speeds were much lower than the ones he had at his house.When he discussed this with his friends,he learned that their Internet service provider was being investigated for throttling speeds based on the types of traffic.What is this an example of?

Social networking sites such as Facebook raise concerns about online privacy and surveillance.

Applying for a job,paying your bills,or just chatting with friends - the odds are you will be using the Internet to do it.While many Canadians take surfing the net at home for granted - there are those who cannot afford to pay the $50 to $60 plus per month to do so and must rely on public institutions that offer computers with Internet access.Do you believe that the federal government should require Internet providers to offer broadband service for $10 a month for low-income people? Why or why not?

According to Marshall McLuhan,how did printing change our sense perceptions?

What does the term "net neutrality" refer to?

According to Ipsos-Reid (2012),what Internet and social media activity have 90 percent of Canadian adults engaged in?

After the September 11,2001 attacks on the United States,movies made in the Western world showed a substantial rise in villains from Iraq and Afghanistan.If Salena adopted a political-economy perspective,which of the following would she argue to be a primary reason behind the increase in the number of these movie characters?

What is the political economy of the media? What are some of the consequences of the political economy of the media?

You have been hired by the Canadian government to provide advice on how to increase the content of Canadian culture on television programming in Canada.How would you describe the current situation to government officials and what solutions would you propose?

If Morley was a proponent of reception analysis,what would he assert as being the nature of the interaction between television and its audience?

Unequal access to the Internet and other forms of media technologies may be creating a digital divide.Describe the current situation and offer solutions.Explore the issue in light of the evidence provided in this chapter.

Which of the following is one of the concerns about social networking sites?