Final

Question 1

The earliest form of computing

Answer 1

ancient tallies for computing quantity

Question 2

Unbuilt machine intended to conduct arithmatic operations at radio speed

Answer 2

Charles Babage’s Analytical Engine

Question 3

2 components of the analytical engine

Answer 3

1. Mill (processing unit)

2. Store (memory)

Question 4

Who wrote notes to account Babage’s inventions?

Answer 4

Ada Lovelace

Question 5

Lovelace proposed what?

Answer 5

Idea that numbers be used to represent info other than quantity

Question 6

What machine wove decorative patterns according to interchangable punch cards?

Answer 6

The Jaquard Loom

Question 7

What machine was fundamental to replacing former manual labour?

Answer 7

The Jaquard Loom

Question 8

Herman Hollerith created the

Answer 8

Punch Card Tabulation

Question 9

What was the punch card tabulation system used for?

Answer 9

U/S Census in 1890

Question 10

How was data processing rationalized?

Answer 10

Because society was becoming more complex and industrial and needed new categories for organizing and analyzing info

Question 11

Max Weber explained the rationalized society as being

Answer 11

the development of the new impersonal, “objective criteria” for categorizing people

Question 12

Computers were used in world war 2 for

Answer 12

code breaking

Question 13

ENIA stood for

Answer 13

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

Question 14

Purpose of ENIAC

Answer 14

To perform calculations for artillery firms and hydrogen bomb

Question 15

Purpose of networks in 1970

Answer 15

research, education and commercial use

Question 16

How were computers marketed to men vs. women

Answer 16

men: stock prices
women: administrative

Question 17

Bolter and Grusin explained the web

Answer 17

remediating any visual and verbal medium

Question 18

Who developed the wireless telegraph?

Answer 18

Marconi

Question 19

What did the wireless telegraph do?

Answer 19

transmitted message from england o newfoundland in morse code

Question 20

The first transmission of voice was by

Answer 20

Robert Landell

Question 21

Who used wireless to transmit a holiday message

Answer 21

Reginald Fessenden

Question 22

The initial response to radio was

Answer 22

largely negative because it wasn’t private

Question 23

Commercialization of radio was in

Answer 23

1920s

Question 24

Advertising in radio was seen as

Answer 24

an invasive form of commerce

Question 25

2 consequences of merging radio into larger networks

Answer 25

1. Able to acquire unique frequencies that were clearer | 2. Larger audience would tune in

Question 26

The Radio Act

Answer 26

A U.S Act that aimed to make radio tend to public interest

Question 27

2 forms of early recorded voice

Answer 27

Thomas Edison's 1. Phonograph 2. Gramophone

Question 28

Who was John Logie

Answer 28

The first to build TV aparatus that transmit imagery of live human face

Question 29

The Massey Report revealed

Answer 29

Canadian culture to be endangered because of U/S

Question 30

Suburbanization was possible because of

Answer 30

the invention of the car

Question 31

3 types of media events

Answer 31

1. Coronations 2. Contests 3. Conquests

Question 32

4 limitations to early photography

Answer 32

1. Camera Size 2. Camera Set Up 3. Exposure Times 4. Developing

Question 33

Roger Fenton incident was an example of

Answer 33

Staging

Question 34

What is staging?

Answer 34

Setting up a photograph to look more dramatic

Question 35

Matthew Brady photographed

Answer 35

The dead

Question 36

Halftone process

Answer 36

printing innovation that broke don images to tiny lines of dots

Question 37

The Halftone Process allowed

Answer 37

reproduction of photographs

Question 38

What was the revolutionary difference with the gelatin dry plate?

Answer 38

on the spot chemical prep

Question 39

Roll film allowed

Answer 39

multiple photos without changing plates

Question 40

Who gave a personal dimension to newspaper photography?

Answer 40

Jimmy Hare

Question 41

The discussion of the camera as an extension of the human eye was with the invention of

Answer 41

the compact camera

Question 42

images as a narrative is called

Answer 42

a photo essay

Question 43

Photo agencies cut out

Answer 43

need for employing photographers specific to a mag

Question 44

Journalistic conventions are largely

Answer 44

transitory

Question 45

The partisian press would adhere to political biases of

Answer 45

publishers

Question 46

When Britain imposed an act in 1765 that put high tax on printed materials, what was it called?

Answer 46

The Stamp Act