Which statement is incorrect:
According to Matthew Arnold... Anarchy is bad and needs to be policed Culture is related to the development of order in society The State is the embodiment of culture and must therefore be protected Culture seeks to uphold class sensibilities .
Which Statement is True, according to Matthew Arnold
A) All people are capable of pursuing perfection through attention to “sweetness and light”
B) One should not follow one’s impulses, but rather reason, to achieve one’s best self Both are correct Neither are correct only A is correct only B is correct .
Which is not a general trait to be found in Czech people, according to our reading They are reserved They are clever They are to a large degree atheistic They don’t care about social or formal titles .
Which statement is false Czechoslovakian was a communist country from just after World War II until 1989 The revolution that toppled the communist regime is known as the Velvet Milos Foreman, the director of the Oscar-winning films Amadeus and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is Czech Tourism plays only a minor role in the Czech economy .
In the Czech Republic, _____ comes to deliver presents to little children at Christmas. Santa Clause Jezisek or Little Jesus Mikulas The Litle Devil.
The dish associated with Christmas dinner in the Czech Republic is pork ham salmon carp.
The best word to describe Kuras' tone regarding his introductory descriptions of Czech people, society and identity overall in his book Czechs and Balances would be proud ashamed hostile self-deprecating.
Kuras considers the following to be Czech traits except They are envious They disclaim responsibility They are creatures of comfort They are unconcerned with how they are perceived by outsiders .
Which statement is false? Jan Palach, a university student, immolated himself on Wenceslas Square to provoke Czech resistance to the Prague Spring Occupation The era following the Prague Spring was called Normalization Czechs responded to the repression in the 1970s by retreating to their cottages on the weekend Charter 77's formation was directly inspired by the western music and artistic ideals of the Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa .
Which of the following is not characteristic of Capitalist Realism It primarily focuses on the ‘new’ It simplifies and typifies reality, promoting specific values ‘Progress’ in advertising is always implicit, and optimism is always present Its representations are not of the ideal but rather the real .
Which statement is false? Workers were treated preferentially under communism; the intelligentsia were often demoted in their socio-economic standing Artists in communist Czechoslovakia were able to influence society to a far greater degree than their western counterparts Theaters and the cabaret were an important part of the cultural explosion in the 1960s The Soviet Army occupied Czechoslovakia for 3 years after the Prague Spring invasion of 1968 .
The practice of increasing production levels to reduce the cost of each product is using Economies of scale Synergy Outsourcing Downsizing .
YouTube’s financial model is an example of Direct Payment Indirect Payment Subsidized payment Deferred payment.
A media market with many producers and sellers but only a few products within a particular category is A monopoly An oligopoly Limited competition Limited liability.
Base refers to ______________ and Superstructure refers to _____________ The economic foundation of a society; the relations of production and corresponding logics to social formations The relations of production and corresponding logics to social formations; The economic foundation of a society The ruling class; the forms of domination over lower classes The forms of domination over lower classes; the ruling class .
Which of the following ideas is not present in Marxist theory The ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas of society Material relationship in production structure ideas of dominance For a class of people to rule, it is necessary for their ideas to be represented as the common interests of the public The “active members” of the ruling class are those who fall on the side of material labor in the division of labor within this class .
Which statement is not true: According to Foucault, Bentham’s Panopticon Is an architectural instrument reconfiguring the operation of power relations Is an instrument founded upon surveillance and the gaze over disciplinary subjects Implements and implicates the observed in the relations of power over them All are correct .
All of the following were discussed in the reading Michel Foucalt, Discipline and Punish, Panopticism except How disciplinary measures were used to fight the plague in the seventeenth century How Foucault’s conception of power is related to the processes surrounding the formation of one’s subjectivity/identity How “knowledge” and “categorizations” are disciplinary mechanisms and constructs How Foucault’s concept of power contradicts Marx’s arguments regarding the structure/agency dialectic.
How is Foucault’s work practically related to ideas of education? The curriculum is a set of ideas with which students are indoctrinated The organization of the classroom (chairs, who speaks and when, etc.) positions the teacher as the authority The outcomes (skillsets) learned are designed to be industrially practical in structured labor markets All of the answers are correct .
Foucault’s use of the term discipline can be reinterpreted, according to Marshall, as meaning A Professional/profession The connectedness and mutual dependence of relations of power of communication and abilities or capacities to be visable Both answers are correct Neither answer is correct .
According to Said, Orientalism is A political subject matter reflected passively by culture, scholarship and institutions A collection of texts about the Orient A nefarious plot to oppress the “Oriental” world A distribution of geopolitical awareness into a diverse range (historical, sociological, etc.) of texts .
All of the following are reasons film matters except it is a source or entertainment, escapism, and fun it tells us something about ourselves and gives us meaning to our lives it has an extraordinary capacity to expand our reality, to deepen our moral sensibility, and to shape our self-understandings, sometimes by moving us closer to cultures, problems, and realities that are distant from those we know well It is an unpersuasive form of communication .
All of the following are reasons film matters except its strengths have always been in its intermediality and intertextuality, breaking down false divisions between high and low culture it embodies and conveys the values and beliefs of the culture within which and for which it is made it provides an avenue to tell stories about who we are and our society – they are a record of what makes us human and what concerns us in the everyday It is not political, which is so divisive to constructive communication .
Which offers an avenue to analyze a film? editing lighting soundtrack all answers are correct.
Which offers a way to analyze film? conflict setting plot structure all answers are correct.
Generation Like seeks to explore all of the following except How internet empowerment is contradictory How marketers are exploiting the dynamics of youth identity expression on the internet How the government is seeking to educate today’s youth on internet literacy How commercial values are becoming intertwined with the ways youth approach using the internet .
All of the following are points made in Campbell et al’s Media and Culture Chapter 2 except The biggest threat to the Internet’s democratic potential may well be its increasing commercialization Net neutrality refers to the principle that every Web site and every user has the right to the same Internet network speed and access The flexible and decentralized nature of the Internet and social media is in large part what makes them such powerful tools for subverting government control gathering users’ location and purchasing habits by data-collecting systems (data-mining) is always illegal .
Siri, the voice-recognition app on I-phones is an example of an emerging semantic web ARPAnet e-commerce content communities.
Knowing how to use cutlery (silverware/pribory) and how to eat correctly at a formal dining event is a form of embodied cultural capital objectified cultural capital institutionalized cultural capital structuralized cultural capital.
Owning a painting by Da Vinci is a form of embodied cultural capital objectified cultural capital institutionalized cultural capital structuralized cultural capital.
Having a Ph.D. and being called “Doctor” is a form of embodied cultural capital objectified cultural capital institutionalized cultural capital structuralized cultural capital.
The term that Bourdieu uses to express the idea of Structure and subsequent predispositions to “agentive” activity within a particular framework is habitus cultural capital social capital structuration.
All of the following ideas are linked to Bourdieu’s ideas surrounding “distinctions” except Consumption is a stage in communication Artistic perception is a product of history reproduced by education “Taste” is a function of one’s economic and social position within a system of dispositions Social actors are constantly reflexive, actively utilizing this capacity to act their intention .
Which wave of feminism was about breaking down gender stereotypes first second third fourth.
In Czech Feminisms, all of the following points were made except Situatedness and context make the Czech feminist experience different than western feminist experiences There were tensions in the 1990s between Western Feminists and their Czech counterparts regarding the latter’s interest in returning to home for maternity and leaving employment. Czech feminist concerns mirrored developments in “third world” feminism Czech feminism has largely become assimilated with global trends in relation to the fourth wave of feminism .
Which statement is not true: Orientalism is About imaginative geography Related to anxieties connected to colonialism and imperialism A matter of cultural power A process of benign familiarization .
In Categorization in Relation to Sexual Identity, all of the following points are made except Categorization involves two different processes: the process of being categorized by others, from the perspective of the outside-world and of being categorized by oneself. many transsexuals do not have the possibility to cross borders in terms of their identity but rather they live somewhere in-between two territories and can never be “at home” identity is not fixed, essential or permanent – instead it is fluid and able to change from time to time Concerning sexual categories people tend to think in binaries, especially in the binary of either being “homosexual” or of being “queer”. .
Some transgender people identify as neither a man nor a woman, or as a combination of male and female, and may use terms like this to describe their gender identity. non-binary bilateral bi-gendered bienniel.
Many commentators argue that the internet itself has enabled a shift from ‘third-wave’ to ‘fourth-wave’ feminism into a call-out culture, which means sexism is much more rampant sexism and misogyny can be more effectively countered Feminism is getting more and more popular as more and more women identify with the new information they are getting more work is necessary to combat the emboldened behavior of politicians to decry the micropolitics of feminism through these new information technologies .
The ending of nefarious is somewhat controversial in that it subtly advocates that Religion is a way out of the challenges presented in the film Therapy is a way out of the challenges presented in the film There is no way to truly alter sex trafficking the use of force is a way out of the challenges presented in the film .
In Cashman’s article on the Czech Roma, she point’s out all of the following except Structural racism remains a problem in Czech society Czech segregation policies have been condemned by international civic bodies Roma students are specifically diagnosed with “light mental disabilities” Roma rights are unable to be lawfully represented in Czech courts, due to their vague citizenship status .
Pornland discusses
A) how porn has a profound effect on the lives of boys in shaping their masculine identity
B) how gonzo porn is ultimately about sexual violence towards women
neither A nor B both A and B B A.
Nefarious addresses sex trafficking in all of the following geographic regions except North America South America Europe Asia.
Deepfakes Are digital files that can’t be traced by piracy software security systems monitoring online file-sharing Is the name of an organization that produces fake news in Serbia and was active in the US 2016 election Are AI generated news stories that are produced by bots Are AI generated clips that merge stock images into pre-existing videos .
According to Gramsci, the most dynamic and prominent aspect to constructing and maintaining the ideological structure of the dominant classes in society resides with the press the public sphere the government the courts.
Which statement is false? The public sphere is a place where public opinion can be formed Public opinion is a task of criticism and control by which citizens – as a public body - enact the State Newspapers play an important role in formulating the public sphere in framing public opinion The emergence of the social welfare state (and Mass Democracy) has enhanced the dynamics of the Public Sphere .
A situation where a journalist may stand to benefit personally from the stories they produce is Ethnocentrism Conflict of Interest Individualism Newsworthiness .
A term that describes how the personalized web … means that we are less likely to be exposed to information that challenges us or broadens our worldview, and less likely to encounter facts that disprove false information that others have shared is Filter bubble Churnalism Selective engagement Refracted retrieval.
According to, the stunning political developments of the past year (Brexit, Trump’s victory) … are not simply the byproducts of a resurgent populism or the revolt of those left behind by global capitalism but rather A sign of information’s increasing disposability and irrelevance A reflection of the mass media’s growing weakness as gatekeepers and standard bearers to frame public discourse A symbol of the greater fragmentation of consumer media interest An indication that technology has bypassed the mental capacity for the average human to process the information received .
Which statement is not true?
Public Journalism moves from seeing people as consumers … to seeing them as a public, as potential actors in arriving at democratic solutions to public problems has been criticized for compromising the profession’s credibility seeks to involve both the public and journalists more centrally in civic and political life began as experiments at the world’s biggest newspapers (NY Times, London Times, etc.) .
Havel uses the example of _____ to underscore how individuals, by accepting and living a lie in a totalitarian system, are, through their action and inaction, in fact the foundation of the system The green grocer as compliant comrade The university professor as hard-working garbage man The empty speeches of the party leader The children parading as Pioneers on May Day, with their parent’s pressure to do so .
Debord’s Society of the Spectacle addresses Hegemonic Altruism Contrapuntal Inversion Discursive Alienation Commodity Fetishism .
Kristen Hearn discusses all of the following as contributing to the development of self-branding except Reality TV shows Corporate management literature Social media websites The rise of corporate media synergies .
The processes of developing and maintaining the branded self are All of the answers are correct A form of rhetorical persuasion Image based Self-exploitative .
Ads on the internet which pop-up in a new screen as a user clicks to a new website are called Interstitials Intermediations Subliminal advertising Spam.
Linking a product to a positive cultural value or image is The bandwagon effect The accentuation principle The assimilative principle The association principle .
The attempt to persuade a consumer that using a product will maintain or elevate their social status is Hidden-fear appeal Irritation impulse Bandwagon effect Snob-appeal approach .
Which of the following critical issues in relation to advertising were not discussed in the chapter Advertising and Commercial Culture? travel education health children.
According to Hall, which of the following is not true National cultures are imagined through the foundational myths and stories their citizens retell themselves The processes of globalization are destabilizing conceptions of national cultural identity partly due to increased population migrations Nationalisms and “return to tradition” movements are a reaction against evolving cultural hybridities Ethnicity marks a group of people as biologically related .
According to Hall, Identity is a fixed entity It arises from a fullness of knowing who we are It is related to activity in our unconscious Has nothing to do with the gaze of the Other .
According to Cashman’s article, all of the following contribute to the plight of Roma children being placed in special schools except Ingrained prejudice Discriminatory tests Socio-economic disadvantages Roma migration patterns .
3) According to O’Connor and Downing, which of the following is NOT true Culture is always related to power Culture and civilization are the same thing Popular or Mass culture is often connected to commercial impulses Hegemony helps to explain how the dominance and leadership of society is maintained through the complicity of the subjugated.
Culture, according to O’Connor and Downing is activities products social processes all of the above.
According to Campbell, Chapter 1: Mass Communication, A Critical Approach, which is NOT true: The Culture as Skyscraper paradigm sees culture as hierarchical The Culture as Map paradigm sees culture as more flexible, multidimensional, and inclusive An attribute of Postmodernity is the blurring of cultural distinctions An attribute of Modernity is Populism.
According to Campbell, Chapter 1: Mass Communication, A Critical Approach, which is NOT true: Communication is defined as the creation and use of symbol systems that convey information and meaning Culture is defined as the symbols of expression that individuals, groups, and societies use to make sense of daily life and to articulate their values. The history of media evolution has been a process of emergence to convergence The stories that circulate in the media have little to no impact on shaping a society’s perceptions and attitudes.
According to Potter, "a state where our minds operate without conscience effort from us" is defined as Cognitive habituation Automaticity Selective engagement Autopilot.
Which is not an attribute of a critical political economy approach to media analyses It is historical in its framework It considers how financing and the organization of cultural products have consequences for the range of discourses and representations in the public domain It examines moments of resistance by interpreting the codes present in cultural products It is fundamentally concerned with the balance between private enterprise and the public interest.
Cultural studies was important for all of the following reasons except How the analyses of cultural artifacts could help understand the way culture provides tools for both domination and resources for resistance. Stimulating media reform movements The understanding of the audience as active It has brought into consideration issues of subjectivity, identity, discourse, and pleasure in relation to understanding culture.
Which statement is not true: Political Economy and cultural studies approaches to the media have historically been seen as divergent and antagonistic Political Economy approaches begin from the foundation that we live in a deeply unequal capitalist society driven by profit on a global scale Cultural studies underscores the potential for social and political agency The complexity of communication and culture preclude any potential for understanding media and society in their social entirety utilizing mixed analytical frameworks that seek to examine both the macrosocial (socio-economic and political concerns) and the microsocial (questions of agency and subjectivity).
According to Splichal and Dahlgren, the crisis in journalism today is a result of all of the following except commercialization technological automation declining public trust decline in "produser" journalists.
All of the following have contributed to “America” losing its mind except The advancement of the idea that reality is a social construction The marketplace of ideas offered by the internet The rise of religious thinking The extension of the Fairness Doctrine in the early 1990s.
Which of the following is an element of journalism? Its first loyalty is to the government It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise Its first obligation is to the powers of the state It must keep people’s attention through the stories it reports.
The evolution of film technology dates back to The 1880s The 1900s The 1910s The 1920s.
A cultural product that becomes popular and provides a sense of shared cultural experiences are Consensus Narratives Blockbusters Global Cinematics Cinema Verite.
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In addressing the issue of GLBT representation in video games from a cultural production perspective in the reading Putting the Gay in Games, we learn that among the factors affecting the representation of the GLBT community in video games are
A) the attitudes of those in the video game development community
B) the construction of the gamer audience
C) the expected backlash for having GLBT content
D) whether the structure of the industry allows it to face this backlash
E) potential for representing sexual and gendered identities in the medium All of the answers are correct A C D E B C E A C D.
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From Jonathan Sterne’s article on the Mall of America, we learn all of the following except Programmed music has been in practical use since the 1930's, and FUZAK remains the predominant service in the industry; it is the model on which other services are based The signs prohibiting "loud, boisterous behavior" located at the entrances and exits to the roaring amusement park are reminders that the Mall is attempting to construct a very specific kind of consumerism, and interference with that goal is grounds for ejection Programmed music presupposes and builds upon an already-constituted commodity status for music and the experience of that Music is a central-an architectural--part of malls and other semi-public commercial spaces throughout the count .
The main difference between how Gramsci and Foucault theorize power is Foucault sees power as a localized and contextually-specific manifestation, Gramsci theorizes it as macrosocial and omnipresent manifestation There is no difference in how they view power Foucault sees power in terms of binary oppositions, Gramsci sees power as occurring in diffusion everywhere Gramsci sees power in terms of binary oppositions, Foucault sees power as occurring in diffusion everywhere .
Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding model states The message is encoded and decoded such that it is understood similarly for all people Media audiences are presented with messages that are decoded, or interpreted in different ways depending on an individual's cultural background, economic standing, and personal experiences The decoding of a message is the production of the message The encoding of a message is how an audience member is able to understand, and interpret the message .
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From Global Sounds;; Sound Recording and Popular Music (Chapter 4), we learn all of the following except The global music industry is still basically organized as an oligopoly Rock and roll’s blurred long-standing distinctions between high and low culture, masculinity and femininity, the country and the city, the North and the South, and the sacred and the secular music’s convergence with the Internet had little impact on the music industry and how music was disseminated Macklemore & Lewis’s “One Love” was an independent release that serves as a story of how the music industry has been completely upended in the last fifteen years .
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