Media Organizations and Professionals MCQs
Media Organizations and Professionals MCQs
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1: Which of these is not a strategy for media organizations when it comes to government regulations?
A. Compliance
B. Preemption
C. Reinterpretation
D. Invention
2: The routine practices associated with the news gathering virtually ensure that certain happenings will be excluded from the news.
A. True
B. False
3: The routine practices associated with the news gathering virtually ensure that certain happenings will be excluded from the news.
A. True
B. False
4: The notion that content now flows across multiple media platforms, leading to the cooperation between multiple media industries is called ______.
A. Convergence
B. Web 2.0
C. Synergy
D. Virtual reality
5: An example of how different and more informal mechanisms have developed to guide behavior on the Internet is ______.
A. New language like “trolling” and “noob”
B. Emoticons
C. The equating of all caps text to shouting
D. All of these
6: Salganik, Dodds, and Watts’ (2006) study of music websites found that popularity is based on the intrinsic quality of a media product.
A. True
B. False
7: Because of the many technological and economic changes affecting news organizations, many of the basic insights about the social construction of news established by earlier studies are no longer valid.
A. True
B. False
8: Since times and conventions have changed, emoji’s are perfectly acceptable and appropriate in formal communication.
A. True
B. False
9: According to Tuchman, news organizations use the “news net” to accomplish all but which of the following ______.
A. Establish a standard routine for gathering news
B. Sort newsworthy happenings from those that do not meet the criteria
C. Bring attention to small stories which news organizations might otherwise miss
D. Establish “beats” at prominent organizations where news might be likely to occur
10: One study of publishing found that the quality of a book manuscript is less important to whether it will get published than how it was brought to the publisher’s attention.
A. True
B. False
11: Which of these is true about the development of objectivity as a dominant value in journalism?
A. Objectivity became more important with the emergence of the field of public relations.
B. Objectivity has been practiced since the early days of journalism.
C. Objectivity is no longer especially valued by journalists.
D. Objectivity is an inherent quality an individual either has or doesn’t have.
12: Photojournalists and advertising photographers differ in that they ______.
A. Are socialized into different expectations in their professions
B. Have different levels of education
C. Exhibit different levels of control over their subjects
D. Are socialized into different expectations in their professions and exhibit different levels of control over their subjects
13: In sociology, the bundles of expectations that are associated with different social positions are known as ______.
A. Positions
B. Roles
C. Identities
D. Statuses
14: In order to have the best chance at making a financially successful movie, a movie studio might ______.
A. Imitate other movies that were big hits
B. Secure a famous actor to star in the film
C. Invest in a heavy promotional campaign for the film
D. All of these
15: Scholarly publishers differ from commercial publishers in that ______.
A. Scholarly publishers have a much clearer idea of what will be a best seller
B. Scholarly publishers rely on unsolicited manuscripts
C. Scholarly publishers are not as concerned about profitability as commercial publishers
D. Scholarly publishers do not follow a standard set of routines to make decisions about publishing
16: A practice or technique that is widely used in a field is called ______.
A. A tool
B. An institution
C. A convention
D. Technology
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