Test 3 (Ch. 5 & 6)

Question 1

A dark box or room with a small hole that allows an inverted image of an outside scene to be shown on the opposite inner wall?

Answer 1

Camera obscura

Question 2

Who was the inventor of the daguerreotype, an early type of photography?

Answer 2

Louis Daguerre

Question 3

Who was the 19th century photographer that was acclaimed for his Civil War images and portraits of famous people?

Answer 3

Mathew B. Brady

Question 4

What three directors are important for the history of movies?

Answer 4

Murnau, Flaherty, and Eisenstein

Question 5

Which german director created the “Nosferatu”?

Answer 5

F. W. Murnau

Question 6

One of the first directions who was successful within the documentary genre was the American director _______, who shot an epic story about Eskimos entitled Nanook of the North.

Answer 6

Robert Flaherty

Question 7

What was the earliest recording device in the history of photography?

Answer 7

Camera obscura

Question 8

Who created the Kinetoscope?

Answer 8

Thomas Alva Edison

Question 9

What are the kinetoscope compared to?

Answer 9

“A peep show”

Question 10

What was the most viewed series on MTV?

Answer 10

Jersey Shore

Question 11

What was the most viewed series on HBO?

Answer 11

The Suprano’s

Question 12

Recording of an audio or video event for later listening or viewing?

Answer 12

Time shift

Question 13

Viewing TV from anywhere using the Internet to access video originally delivered digitally to the home (or another location).

Answer 13

Place shift

Question 14

Shows like Survivor, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune are all examples of what?

Answer 14

Filling the Nights tv shows

Question 15

Can present info in a way that encourages users to learn and explore. Online quizzes, surveys, and games appear in many places on the Web.

Answer 15

Interactive Media

Question 16

Consists of three main elements:

1. A dialog that occurs between a human and computer program
2. A dialog that occurs simultaneously or nearly so.
3. The audience has some measure of control over what media content it sees and in what order

Answer 16

Interactive Media

Question 17

Reaches out to a large audience. This includes newspapers, magazines, television, etc.

Answer 17

Mass Media

Question 18

What was the 1st typewriters?

Answer 18

Keyboards

Question 19

What does DARPA stand for?

Answer 19

“Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency”

Question 20

Large scale computers in the second half of the 20th century could not communicate with each other prior to the creation of __________. The foundations for this technology were laid in 1969 when the DARPA launched the first network.

Answer 20

The internet

Question 21

An invaluable aspect of interactive media is how they change the __________ of users. The dialogic nature of interactive media can personalize people’s relationship with content.

Answer 21

Media experience

Question 22

Two of the earliest and most famous technicolor films, both released in 1939, have become classics in the history of American cinema. Audiences are still mesmerized by these films, which have retained their appeal to large audiences. What are these two films?

Answer 22

Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz

Question 23

The primary function of the American motion picture industry is to ______.

Answer 23

Entertain

Question 24

A crucial element for online communication to reach its full potential as a mass medium is which of the following features?

Answer 24

Bandwidth

Question 25

What are the two major functions of still images in society?

Answer 25

Surveillance and cultural transmission

Question 26

The exact day when the Internet was launched is difficult to determine. The ________ adopted TCP/ IP as the basis for the ARPANET in 1982. Universities were required to follow suit.

Answer 26

Defense Department

Question 27

What social medium was invented in 1971 by the computer engineer Ray Tomlinson? (According to Tomlinson, the symbol @, was the obvious choice for the symbol to separate the names of individuals from their machines.)

Answer 27

Email

Question 28

Target ads are geared toward specific consumer behavior. Television is trying to do what _________ has/have been practicing for a while.

Answer 28

Internet advertisers

Question 29

To date _______ has not been a major issue on the Internet, largely because Internet users tend to be well educated.

Answer 29

Language

Question 30

Sound film changed the landscape of movie-making forever. The first "talkie" offered audiences the experience of listening to recorded music. That film, which was released in 1927 and marks the beginning of sound on film, is ______.

Answer 30

The Jazz Singer

Question 31

Korean pop star Psy experience a __________ when his music video received more than 1 billion views in 2012, leading to skyrocketing record sales. This attests to the power of social media to promote music.

Answer 31

Youtube milestone

Question 32

When was the TCP adopted?

Answer 32

1982

Question 33

A part of the main protocol for the Internet that allows computers to easily communicate with each other over a network.

Answer 33

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

Question 34

The process used by some P2P systems in which multiple downloads of the same file are temporarily coordinated to accelerate the downloading process.

Answer 34

Swarming

Question 35

A network connection that enables a large amount of bandwidth to be transmitted, which allows for more information to be sent in a shorter period of time.

Answer 35

Broadband

Question 36

The basis of file sharing services, a computer communication model and network whose computers are considered equal peers who can send, store, and receive info equally well.

Answer 36

peer-to-peer (P2P)

Question 37

What kind of game is FarmVille?

Answer 37

A social game

Question 38

Halo 4 was created by who?

Answer 38

Microsoft

Question 39

Online or mobile games that are played in real time with others or that encourage simultaneous group playing.

Answer 39

Social games

Question 40

Games created to be fun and educational that use game dynamics to instruct players on topics.

Answer 40

Serious games

Question 41

The use of game like mechanics in nonage settings, such as earning points, badges, or rewards for performing certain actions?

Answer 41

Gamification