CS101-Test-Banks - Mid Term Testbanks PDF

Preview

Summary

Mid Term Testbanks...

Description

Communications Final: Which of the following acts regulate the telecommunication and broadcasting spheres in Canada? Answer: broadcasting and telecommunications act Indie Game: the movie explored some of the difficult working conditions of the video game Answer: Witheford In the Glenn Greenwald interview, we watched in class, he mentions that this social media company is particularly good at objecting to government demands for info and protecting of their users Answer: Twitter As Hartowitz discusses, under the CRTC’s recently abandoned priority programming program, Canadian entertainment shows would need to air in prime time and devote this percentage of content to Canadian entertainment news: Answer: ⅓ Edge writes that monetizing convergence was easy because it was easier for converged companies to sell advertising over multiple media, leading to increased revenue Answer: False The MAPL system requires that the music be entirely composed by a Canadian in every case to be considered CanCon? Answer: False The article about the blog EASpouse is about a woman who made a blog complaining about how her husband spent too much time playing video games and not enough doing his share of the house work? Answer: false Canada’s copyright modernization Act, Bill C-51, displays SOPA-style restrictions Answer: False

Did tencer say Tv wasn’t going anywhere but broadcast model will be replaced by public domain? Answer: No Hamilton argues that it is important to understand the division made b/t critical and administrative approaches to studying communication, but that the division can create its own problems, such as creating unfounded assumptions that work without it necessarily embodying those qualities Answer: True What figure talked about in lecture was a key part of establishing Creative Commons? Answer: Lessig Which of the following is NOT one of the general principles of Canadian Broadcasting Policy? Answer: Be free of obscenity, seditious material,or other matter that does not reflect Canadian family value This article talks about the importance of creating a “call in culture” in order to address structural and institutional privilege? Answer:Harvey The pollution sanctuary hypothesis holds that pollution-intensive economic activity will tend to migrate to those jurisdictions where costs related to environmental regulation are lowest Answer: False The main point of the article written by ________ is to map the “moral geographies” of the international trade and traffic of electronic waste Answer: Lepawsky and McNabb Winseck claims that copyright infringement is a form of “wealth destruction” akin to theft? Answer: False

As discussed in lecture, according to Leslie Shade Canadian communication studies can be characterized by three traits what are they? Answer: critical sensibility, cultural policy focus, social justice orientation Television network advertising profits dropped from Cnd 113 million in 2007 to this in 2008 Answer: Cnd 8 million The switch from analogue to digital TV happened in Canada(broadcasting) by ___ and will happen in India (cable) by ________ Answer: 2011, 2014 Who talks about surveillance state? Answer: Vaidhynathan Shepherd draws on what important concept discussion in class? Answer: immaterial labor In our discussion of the online harassment that Sarkesian received for proposing her video series Tropes vs. Women the instructor make a link b/t this backlash and recent incidents. They were: Answer: Anti-feminist bus asds in Toronto, online against university of Toronto students In our reading from week 1 on Canadian Communications studies which of the following figures was NOT listed as figure in the field? Answer: Nobert According to Fletcher, French and English culture have a lot in common, but what is the missing narratives that depict thus Answer: True Under bill C-11, mash ups and remixes would be made illegal due to copyright infringement Answer: True OPKKK is related to what major news event? Answer: Ferguson

Canadian experience serves to bolster the claims of critics who have warned that increased ownership consolidation would place too much power over public perceptions in the hands of: Answer: a few large corporations Watching shared media from another country can bring English and French media cultures closer together Answer: True When CanWest Global broke up, their newspapers became the Postmedia Network and their TV assets went to this company in 2010 Answer: shaw Wagman’s two main points about Facebook are that it takes away from face to face encounters and that it can lead to internet addiction ? Answer: false 3d printers may be used to infringe on trademarked products and according to Cory Doctorow that is a HUGE problem Answer: False If a program is framed as “communications” with an “s” as opposed to “communication” it is more likely to centre administrative research Answer: True In the lecture, Nathan said that due to digital technology, using your phone or laptop to record the audio from lectures so you the audio from lectures so you can listen to them as many times as you want is much better than taking notes? Answer: false Part of the CRTC’s 2016 “closing the broadband gap” strategy involves ensuring offered, but outside of major cities Answer: False In the early US copyright was automatic not voluntary Answer: False

It is generally accepted that a free and iverse media is NOT a vital component of democracy? Answer: False Harvey and Fisher discuss a new equity and social justice-oriented research/ activism agenda called WIG (Women in games) that moves beyond more general equality-based initiatives Answer: True The origins of Canadian broadcasting policy go back to the: Answer: 1920s The Maker’s Bill of Rights states that: Answer: cases shall be easy to open At the time the Bannerman article was written, The Berne Convertion encompassed how many member states? Answer: 164 Was the two step flow associated with uses and gratifications? Answer: No As discussed in lecture, according to Leslie Shade Communications Studies can be characterized by three traits, they? Answer: critical sensibility, cultural policy focus, social justice orientation The chapter on doing media studies about Stuart hall’s three broad kinds of reading, they are Answer: dominant, oppositional and negotiated 44 % of European Union Ewaste comes from medium to small electronics Answer: true Overall the CRTC broadcasting policy is a federal responsibility, except for the province of Quebec, which has its own, independent provincial version: Answer: True

According to lecture, Internet making culture started in the mid to late 2000 s when 3D printers started to become more popular? Answer: False Making culture is about changing the “many to many” flow of mass culture to one that is “one to many” Answer: true Maxwell and Miller make the argument that the emergence of the knowledge economy and proliferation of ICTs/CEs has resulted in a decline in manufacturing as the production is less energy intensive and less polluting than earlier industries? Answer: false The CRTC eliminated priority programming in what year? Answer: 2011 According to Luka, the CRTC’s 2014-2017 Three Year Plan has three pillars, which are: Answer: create connect and protect This article mentions the privacy issues that befell the infamous “Star Wars kids” Answer: Vaidhyanathan The number of TV households in India is estimated at: Answer: 147 million Which of the following is not a component of Creative Commons licensing Answer: Domestic only In _______, over-the-air television transmission in major Canadian markets and on certain channels in other areas switched from analog to digital Answer: 2011 The author talked about self-branding in the context of precarious employment in creative industry careers

Answer: Shepherd Canada’s copyright Modernization Act Bill C-51, displays SOPA-style restrictions Answer: False Which of the following is NOT a part of the Canadian Standards Association's Model Code for the protection of personal information? Answer: Limiting Use, Disclosure and Sale According to Lepawsky and Mcnabb, between 20 and 50 % pf e-waste designed for recycling domestically is actually being exported overseas Answer: false (50-80%) According to lecture, copyright law serves two sets of interests, copyright holders and _______. Answer: media users If someone writes Doctor Who Fan Fiction, you could consider them a prosumer Answer: True Susan Bryant’s article at one point discusses the motion of time-space compression, as theorized by David Harvey Answer False According to our readings, the revenues from the children’s consumer market are: Answer: 115 Where does most caribbean e waste go? Answer: Venezula The author talks about how User Generated Content can be seen as a form of informal internship Answer: Winseck

In Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground, one of the major dangers associated with e-waste wasn’t waste but rather: Answer: Cybercrime Fletcher states that Canada’s “two media solitudes” were a danger to creating a unified…. Answer: public sphere According to Edge, what company’s unwise convergence decisions led it to file for protection from creditors after the 2007 market collapse? Answer: CanWest According our readings, Canada is a net copyright exporter Answer: False Johanna Blackley states that social media is dominated by women, which could lead to women becoming a more powerful force in the shaping of mainstream television and film narratives, for example Answer: True Facebook was first open to anyone with an email address in: Answer: 2004 Penley writes that one of the reasons that K/S is popular is that there were enough fleshed out strong females characters to write stories about Answer: True According to the stats in Harvey and Fisher, the number of female employees in video game industries has grown slightly compared to the numbers in Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter’s article Answer: True According to mr jalopy makers should use profit developed by selling special making tools to fund their making projects Answer: False Penley describes this as “romantic porography radically shaped and reworked by the themes and tropes of science fiction

Answer: slash fiction Bryant writes that we need to find ways to overcome the disjuncture b/t our knowledge of environmental degradation and our social practices Answer: True The potential to know virtually anything about anyone may well identify some new threats, (but) the loss of privacy is clearly excessive Answer: Harper According to Bildook, this percentage of journalists believe that news stories reflect the beliefs of the owners of a media outlet Answer: 56 Does UGC stand for universal general communication? Answer: False According to Holmes, the bill that created the Privacy Act and Access to Information Act was Answer: Bill C-51 This author’s article discusses Canada’s two media solitudes Answer: Fletcher Books like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies are made possible by what? Answer: public domain This switch from analogue to digital TV happened in Canada (braodcasting) by ________ a d will happen in India (cable) by ________ Answer: 2011 and 2014 According to Penley, early slash fiction writing was circulated mainly through what medium/ media? Answer: text based internet Lessig’s model is useful for showing the various forces that can work to regulate a particular aspect of culture Answer: True

In the video “social media and the end of gender” Johanna Blackley makes the argument that: Answer: gender won’t have the same impact b/c social media connects people with similar tastes, changing up the impact of traditional and stereotypical demographics According to one of our articles,_______ shall be a design ideal, not an afterthought Answer: interoperability The “pollution sanctuary” hypothesis holds that pollution-intensive economic activity will tend to migrate to those jurisdictions where costs related to environmental regulation are lowest Answer: false According to the readings, the Postmedia Network operates a dozen major daily newspapers that were formerly part of CanWest global Answer: True English Canada the only known world group[ that prefers another nation’s media to domestic work of same quality Answer: True The CRTC rules are very hard to administer according to the report by Sara Horowitz, so the CRTC does not enforce which enforce which rule in entertainment news shows Answer: ⅓ According to lecture, Internet making culture started in the mid to late 2000s when 3D printers started to become more popular Answer: false Bildook makes the argument that loosening Canadian restrictions on foreign ownership could help alleviate some of the problems associated with convergence of ownership in the media industries Answer: True The Wikipedia (and other online companies) blackout day on January 18, 2012, was instrumental in stopping SOPA in the US

Answer: True According to one of our articles, _____ shall be a design ideal, not an afterthought Answer: interpolobility “Just because I watch trashy, stupid movies it doesn’t mean I have bad taste or believe what they say; I watch them to make fun of them” This statement aligns most closely which what audience perspective Answer: Uses and Gratification The agency that started in 1958 as the first proto-CRTC was called: Answer: board of broadcast governors According to the reading we had our first class, which of the following disciplines does Communication Studies draw insights from? Answer: Psychology, sociology, philosophy, political science and economics The role of the CRTC is primarily: Answer: oversee the airwaves According to Wagman, the fact that Facebook already has so much Canadian content has mitigated the appearance of calls for a Canadian equivalent of this popular US site Answer: True The newspaper assets of CanWest Global were purchased by what company after their bankruptcy? Answer: Postmedia Which of these is NOT a labour issue in communication industries? Answer: they are all labour issues One of Wagman’s main points about Facebook is that it capitalizes on one of the main modes of internet use among Canadians, which is Answer: Archiving and sharing

Quebecor’s lockout at the Journal de Montreal, demonstrates that convergence has also allowed media owners disproportionate power over: Answer: Journalists and other media workers Television network advertising profits dropped from Cnd 113 million in 2007 to this in 2008 Answer: Cnd 8 million According to Dyer-Witheford and de Peuter, women make up what average percentage of video game developers staff? Answer: 10-15% Which of the following does Doctorow NOT say about making culture in the Pauli article Answer: That it is a child of those who didn't abandon the tech industry when the dotcom bubble burst One of the articles discusses making culture with reference to a sci-fi author who wrote a novel about it. What author is: Answer: Cory The Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien was critical of Bill C-51 because “All Canadians would be caught in its web” ? Answer: True What is the set of CRTC hearings discussed in lecture? Answer: Let’s talk TV Reception studies holds that way is important is content , not our interpretation of it Answer: false According to Dewing, in addition to its General; principles, Canadian broadcasting policy also provides for educational programming, programming that reflects Aboriginal cultures of Canada, programming for disabled persons and: Answer: Alternative

Dewing writes that “ In global context, Canada struggles to assert values and develop strategies that enable it to chart its own course in telecommunications and digital media production, drawing on its unique cultural identities and strengths: Answer: False What CanWest Global broke up, their newspapers became the Postmedia Network and their TV assets went to this company in 2010 Answer: Shaw Tencer argues that this % of households will have a newspaper subscription by 2025? Answer: 5 to 10% Which of the following is NOT an element of critical communication studies, according to the readings and lecture: Answer: solves small problems In the video “ Social media and the end of gender”, Johanna Blackley makes the argument that: Answer: gender won’t have the same impact b/c social media connects people with similar tastes, changing up the impact of traditional and stereotypical demographics The person responsible for handling complaints about infractions to Canadian privacy laws is called Answer: Privacy commissioner What was the royal commission newspapers known as? Answer: Kent commission The term “precarity” is related most strongly to which topic that we have covered? Answer: labour Anita Sarkeesian has a cameo appearance in Indie Game: The movie to discuss feminism in independent games Answer: false

If you do the following, you are an active user: Answer: tweet (post to twitter) about a newspaper article The Canadian broadcasting system should be effectively owned and controlled by Canadian so as to ___, ___ and _____ the cultural, political and economic fabric of Canada Answer: Safeguard, enrich and strength Canada’s information landscape is a place of much concentration but little convergence Answer: false Digital television in India is not that popular b/c unlike in Western countries, digital cable and satellite don’t offer a wide choice of channels Answer: True Who targeted the KKK by outing who he people were? Answer: Anonymous Bildook writes government regulation may be necessary to maintain competitiveness in a marketplace of ideas Answer: True Indie Game: the movie explored some of the difficult working conditions of the video game industry, a topic also explored by what authors? Answer: witheford Which of the following are not parts of the Maker's Bill of Rights Answer: all designs and specs should be freely available online Is Cavco responsible for Cancon on Tv? Answer: False The National Film Board (NFB) has a strategic plan that seeks to makeit a major player in the global media landscape that provides new perspectives on Canada and the world from Canadian points of view Answer: False

Maxwell and Miller believe Cold War theory about weightless virtual media is a path towards a sustainable future Answer: False In the Glenn Greenwald interview we watched in class, he mentions that this social media company is particularly good at objecting to government demands for information and protecting the privacy of their users Answer: Twitter The article about video game labor contained the argument that this mostly male workforce is supported by largely female shadow workforce providing unpaid domestic and emotional labour Answer: True The privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien was critical of Bill C-51 because “All Canadians would be caught in its werb” Answer: True What company’s purchase of the Journal de montreal led to a 2-year lockout and harshened working conditions for journalists Answer: Quebecor In the Damsels in Distress I video, Sarkesian explores how classic video games such as super mario brothers and legend of Zelda contribute to the trope of male heros always rescuing female characters in video fmes Answer: True Winseck makes the argument that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should act as “copyright police” due to piracy’s effect of destroying creative industry growth Answer: True Greening communication studies would mean that we include ecological discussions and considerations in most of our work Answer: True

Bildook writes that preserving this is an important reason to be critical of concentrated media ownership Answer: marketplace Which of the following is Not one of the general principles of Canadian broadcasting policy? Answer: Operate primarily in English and french, and have public, private and community elements In lecture, the professor argued that there was no overlap b/t the media and communication industries and other industries in terms of labor issues because media and communications is very different as a field Answer: false The main point of the article written by_______ is to map the “ moral geographies” of the international trade and traffic of electronic waste Answer: Lepaw Lessig model is useful for showing the various forces...