Exam 2: The Internet, Digital Media, and Media Convergence

Why did AOL begin losing customers in the early 2000s?

Yahoo!'s business method has been to make itself an all-purpose entry point, or _______, to the Internet

By 2014, Bing had nearly 66 percent of the search engine market share.

_________________________ contain articles in chronological, journal-like form, often with reader comments and links to other articles on the Web.

Name a group that worked to establish the early Internet. Explain the motivation for developing the Internet.

The Kindle Fire and iPad are examples of touchscreen _________________________.

The introduction of microprocessors, miniature circuits made of silicon, made personal computers possible.

Web navigation software packages such as Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer are known as _________________________.

According to the American Library Association, what are the limitations of trying to protect children from inappropriate material on the Internet?

Apple's response to which of the following established the new media economics?

Apple's voice-recognition software, Siri, is an example of the _________________________.

By 2015, what percentage of American households moved from dial-up to faster broadband internet?

Briefly describe how digital communication has progressed from e-mail.

Facebook is an example of a(n) _____.

E-mail was one of the earliest services of the Internet.

What does the term digital divide refer to?

_____ is a term that describes the gap between the information "haves" and "have-nots."

Netscape overtook Internet Explorer as the most popular Web browser in the late 1990s.

Which of the following statements about the Internet is not true?

Google is a subsidiary of YouTube.