Category: Technology & Media

A. mass production mass circulation and the decline of serious content
B. the public ownership of newspapers as a shared resource
C. more people going to the cinema as a new leisure activity
D. a reduction of virtual communities on the internet

A. neutral
B. misleading
C. illusory
D. distorting

A. rational though
B. social capital
C. cultural capital
D. political awareness

A. cyberspace
B. the worldwide web
C. virtual communities
D. chatrooms

A. the media exaggerate reports of deviant groups generating hostile reactions
B. children watch violent or sexually explicit films and then copy the behavior
C. audiences challenge the ethnic stereotypes represented by the media
D. elitists express concern with the Americanization of culture

A. global village
B. global network
C. global flows
D. global cities

A. William F. Oghurn
B. Talcott Parsons
C. Auguste Comte
D. Thorstein Veblen

A. functionalism
B. symbolic interactionism
C. postmodernism
D. political economy

A. the content of the media is determined market forces
B. the subordinate classes are dominated by the ideology of the ruling class
C. the media manipulate the masses as vulnerable passive consumers
D. audiences make selective interpretations of media messages

A. cultural imperialism
B. rise of digital media
C. virtual communities
D. the US is not the largest global exporter of films