Introduction to Mass Communication MCQs

Introduction to Mass Communication MCQs

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1: Legacy Media may include newspapers, magazines, book publishers, and television networks.

A.   True

B.   False

2: Legacy Media may include newspapers, magazines, book publishers, and television networks.

A.   True

B.   False

3: Which of the correct statements about Communication ?

A.   May include newspapers, magazines, book publishers, and television networks.

B.   E technological tools, or channels, used to transmit the messages of mass communication.

C.   How we socially interact at a number of levels through messages.

D.   None of these

4: Which communication type you have: Communication with yourself.

A.   Interpersonal Communication

B.   Intrapersonal Communication

C.   Group Communication

D.   Mass Communication

5: Interpersonal Communication is the communication, either _______ , between two people. It can be verbal or nonverbal.

A.   Intentional

B.   Accidental

C.   Both a & b

D.   None of these

6: Group communication is a communication in which one person is communicating with _______ .

A.   One person

B.   Yourself

C.   Audience

D.   None of these

7: In which type an individual or institution uses technology to send a message to a large, mixed audience, most of whose members are not known to the sender.

A.   Interpersonal Communication

B.   Intrapersonal Communication

C.   Group Communication

D.   Mass Communication

8: Media Literacy is the roles media play in society, and how audience members respond to these media and their messages.

A.   True

B.   False

9: The technological tools, or channels, used to transmit the messages of mass communication is known as ______ .

A.   Interpersonal Communication

B.   Intrapersonal Communication

C.   Group Communication

D.   Mass Media

10: Which model is still useful in identifying the players in the mass communication process?

A.   Transmission Model

B.   Public model

C.   Transaction model

D.   None of these

11: The source of messages that go out through mass communication is known as _____ .

A.   Sender

B.   Message

C.   Encoding

D.   All of these

12: Message is the content being transmitted by the sender to the receiver.

A.   True

B.   False

13: The process of turning the sender’s ideas into a message and preparing the message for transmission is known as ______ .

A.   Sender

B.   Message

C.   Encoding

D.   All of these

14: Channel is the medium used to ______ the encoded message.

A.   Process

B.   Saved

C.   Store

D.   Transmit

15: Receiver is the audience for the mass communication message.

A.   True

B.   False

16: Decoding is the process of translating a signal from a mass medium into a form that the ______ can understand .

A.   Sender

B.   Receiver

C.   Encoder

D.   Both a & b

17: Interference with the transmission of a message. This can take the form

A.   Semantic, mechanical, or environmental noise is known as ______ .

B.   Sender

C.   Receiver

D.   Encoder

E.   Noise

18: Interference with the transmission of a message. This can take the form

A.   Semantic, mechanical, or environmental noise is known as ______ .

B.   Sender

C.   Receiver

D.   Encoder

E.   Noise

19: Which model of the mass communication process that treats media

A.   Use as an interactive ritual engaged in by audience members ?

B.   Ritual Model

C.   Publicity Model

D.   Reception Model

E.   None of these

20: A model of the mass communication process that looks at how media attention can make a person, concept, or thing become important is known as ________ .

A.   Ritual Model

B.   Publicity Model

C.   Reception Model

D.   None of these

21: Reception Model is a critical theory model of the mass communication process that looks at how audience members ______ meaning out of media content .

A.   Derive

B.   Create

C.   Both a & b

D.   None of these

22: A message being sent through the media must be ______ before it can be transmitted.

A.   Encoded

B.   Decoded

C.   Channeled

D.   Reprocessed

23: Twitter’s big innovation was ______.

A.   Connecting mobile Internet,mobile phones,and computer-based Internet as part of a single channel

B.   Combining GPS and mobile phones

C.   Allowing people to post mobile phone video to the web

D.   Allowing people to

24: Content convergence describes convergence in the design, production, and ________ of content.

A.   Sales

B.   Distribution

C.   Marketing

D.   Consumption

25: Alphabet is the parent company of ______.

A.   Google

B.   Apple

C.   Comcast

D.   NBCUniversal

26: Univision is the top ______ broadcaster in the united states.

A.   European

B.   Alternative

C.   Nonprofit

D.   None of the above

E.   Spanish-language

27: With ____, community members are the editors and gatekeepers of the content of a site.

A.   Wikis.

B.   Podcasts.

C.   Forums.

D.   Blogs.

E.   Media sharing.

28: Drm refers to a combination of ________ for protecting digital content.

A.   Hardware and software methods.

B.   Technical and legal means.

C.   User and publisher

29: _________ was a pioneer in photojournalism with her/his photos of the civil war.

A.   Matthew Brady

B.   Annie Leibovitz

C.   Richard Avedon

D.   Margaret Bourke-White

30: The journalistic value of ______ represents a nostalgia for the old-fashioned rural community.

A.   Responsible capitalism

B.   Altruistic democracy

C.   Small-town pastoralism

D.   Ethnocentrism

31: ______ are responsible for toxic red tides.

A.   Plasmodial slime molds

B.   Dinoflagellates

C.   Red algae

D.   Diatoms

32: ______ is best known for his/her photography for life and fortune magazines.

A.   Mathew Brady

B.   Annie Leibovitz

C.   Richard Avedon

D.   Margaret Bourke-White.

33: If the glacial budget is balanced (accumulation equals wastage), then ________.

A.   The terminus of the glacier is stationary

B.   The ice front will advance

C.   The bottom or base

D.   The glacier will not flow downhill

34: If you invite some friends to dinner, _____ function of language is being used.

A.   Personal

B.   Instrumental

C.   Inform

D.   Regulatory

35: In a __________, each member delivers a prepared presentation much like a public speech.

A.   Roundtable

B.   Panel

C.   Symposium

D.   Brainstorming sessio

36: Lillian is __________ when she expresses her regret for forgetting to e-mail her friend emilio.

A.   Apologizing

B.   Prepared

C.   Large

D.   Qualified

37: Nonverbal communication can ______ what is spoken if not used correctly.

A.   Reiterate

B.   Confirm

C.   Substantiate

D.   Contradict

E.   AlterNonverbal

38: The forum part of a symposium-forum small group refers most clearly to the __________.

A.   Asking and answering of audience questions

B.   Presentation of relatively prepared speeches

C.   Use of experts as members of the group

D.   Interaction of group members without any set pattern as to who speaks when

39: The stages of small group interaction are similar to the stages of __________.

A.   Relationship development

B.   The perceptual process

C.   The listening process

D.   A conversation