Z- Journalism Exam

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Facebook and MySpace are examples of ______ networking sites

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social

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The abacus was the first rudimentary ______.

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computer

Front 3

Software codes that enable one computer to communicate with another are called

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protocols

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Before the Internet, civilian researchers developed ______, which improved on the capabilities of ARPANET.

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USENET

Front 5

Gateways to the rest of the Internet are called

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portals

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. In an e-mail address, the portion before the @ sign is called the ______ ID.

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user

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URL refers to uniform ______ locator, otherwise known as an Internet address.

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resource

Front 8

A ______ is a software program that acts as the vehicle that enables a user to move around the Internet.

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browser

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______ is an application that allows Internet users to be part of live, real-time text conversations.

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Chat

Front 10

Reading newsgroup messages without responding is called ______.

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lurking

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. ______ are the people who maintain either content or systems for large Web sites.

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Webmasters

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South ______ is Comedy Central’s cartoon for adults.

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Park

Front 13

Television was first shown to the public in ______ at the World’s Fair in New York.

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1939

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Channel ______ is the placement of assigned spots on the electromagnetic spectrum to individual broadcast stations.

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allocation

Front 15

. The years from 1948 through 1958 were known as network television’s ______ age

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golden

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During early television, women were portrayed as stereotypical ______.

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housewives

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The television program ______ was the first ratings success for a program with black heroes and white villains.

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Roots

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An independent station is one that is not affiliated with or owned by a ______.

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network

Front 19

CATV became _____ television in the 1970s when it began to offer additional signals from distant stations.

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cable

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Must-______ rules are FCC regulations that require cable systems to carry all local television stations within the system’s area of coverage.

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carry

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Public ______ Channels are provided by cable systems as part of their community franchise agreements

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Access

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HDTV has 1,125 scanning lines instead of the ______ lines of conventional TV.

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525

Front 23

The Carnegie Commission, in 1967, used the key term ______, rather than “educational” in its report on noncommercial television.

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public

Front 24

The two major satellite radio companies are ______ and Sirius.

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XM

Front 25

. The era of electronic communications media began with the invention of the ______.

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telegraph

Front 26

A telegraph code in which each letter of the alphabet is represented by a series of short and long impulses is called ______ Code.

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Morse

Front 27

. The ______ tube, also known as a vacuum tube, was invented by Lee De Forest and designed to pick up and amplify radio signals

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Audion

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. In what might have been the first radio broadcast, Frank ______ announced that Harding defeated Cox for the office of President of the United States.

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Conrad

Front 29

A local station that has a contractual relationship to air a network’s programming is called a/an ______.

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affiliate

Front 30

The Radio Act of 1927 required that broadcasters operate in the public interest, ______ and ______.

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convenience>, <necessity>

Front 31

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s address to ______ had the largest audience ever for any radio talk.

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Congress

Front 32

Call ______ are a broadcast station’s identification assigned by the FCC.

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letters

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A/An ______ is a consistent programming formula with a recognizable sound and personality

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format

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. In a 1950s practice called ______, record companies paid radio station personnel to play certain records

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payola

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Most observers say that digital radio’s signal is crisper and clearer than ______ radio’s signal

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analog

Front 36

. ______ is a legal right that grants to the owner of a work protection against unauthorized copying.

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Copyright

Front 37

Format wars are rivalries in which companies selling specific types of recording and ______ devices try to put competing formats out of business.

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playback

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. Thomas Edison’s first recording device was called a _______.

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phonograph

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Tin Pan Alley was a district in New York City where songs were written for ______ shows.

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Broadway

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The three main performance rights organizations are ______, BMI and SESAC

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ASCAP

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Wal-Mart will not carry CDs with parental ______ on them

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advisories

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A single recorded sound source, used in multitrack recording

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track

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. Clear Channel was accused of ______ when its stations stopped playing the music of the Dixie Chicks after a member of that group criticized the president

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censorship

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A ______ disc is a plastic disc with digitally encoded music read by lasers.

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compact

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An ______ is a compressed digital audio files that enables music to be downloaded from the Internet.

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MP3

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The first successful free file-sharing program was ______.

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Napster

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A/An ______ label is any recording industry company not owned by one of the five major labels

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independent

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. The person who oversees the making of a master recording is the ______.

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producer

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. ______ of vision is when the brain retains an image for a fraction of a second after it leaves the field of sight, allowing for an illusion of movement.

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Persistence

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Thomas Edison invented an early motion picture camera called the ______ and a motion picture viewer called the ______.

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kinetograph>, <kinetoscope>

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Small theaters in the late 1800s and early 1900s were called _______ and cost five cents.

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nickelodeons

Front 52

______ booking forced theater owners to show movies with unknown starts in order to get movies with established stars.

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Block

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Before the advent of television, movie theaters showed ______ which were film clips that covered current events

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newsreels

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The planning phase of moviemaking is called ______.

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preproduction

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The ______ producer is the person who finds the financing for a film and puts the package together

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executive

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People who lead the actual day-to-day work of making a film are called ______ producers.

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line

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the 1990s, film editors cut and glued films by hand on an editing machine called a _______.

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Moviola

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The ______ director is the person who designs the physical look of a film

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art

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The script supervisor, who is in charge of making sure shots match up, is also called the ______ supervisor.

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continuity

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. Product ______ is the inclusion of a product in a movie as a form of promotion for that product.

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placement

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______ is the process of selling media content to individual outlets

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Syndication

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Tie-ins are consumer products built around movie ______.

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characters