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In 2015, about ________ of U.S. adults reported that they had used an online dating site.
15%
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gained public support with his "fireside chats," which made use of the ________
radio
Symbolic-interaction theory explains how the mass media and social media ________
shape the reality we experience
The concept "media" refers to ________
channels of communication
Research indicates that social media contains a considerable amount of content that ________
glorifies various types of risk-taking
The concept "digital divide" refers to the fact that ________
there are large differences in internet use among various categories of people within a country or for the world as a whole
About what year in human history did mass communication first exist?
1800**
Which of the following situations is consistent with Sherry Turkle's research involving college students?
Norms have emerged making it okay to "tune out" of face-to-face conversations to check for online information.
Social media and mass media have a number of functions for society as a whole. Which of the following is NOT included in the chapter as one of these functions?
an agent of social control**
In general, people using social media present ________ images of themselves.
idealized
The most "followed" people on Twitter are ________
entertainers
Which of the following statements is supported by research conducted at UCLA?
Students are likely to feel positively about online photos that they see have lots of "likes."
Research shows that about what share of U.S. teens claim that using social media makes them feel better connected to their friends?
80%
Perhaps the most important consequence of the development of mass media and social media has been ________
expanding people's access to information
If you were marketing products effectively by using sociological data, you would ________
use older technology such as cable and satellite technology to sell to older people and newer, internet-based media to sell to younger people.**
Read the statements below. Which of these statements is NOT correct?
Couples who meet online marry sooner than couples who meet in more conventional ways.
Couples who meet online have a higher chance of divorce than couples who meet in more conventional ways.
Couples who meet online are typically older than couples who meet in more conventional ways.
Couples who meet online are less likely to share existing friends than couples who meet in more conventional ways.
Couples who meet online are typically older than couples who meet in more conventional ways.
The fundamental difference between older mass media and newer social media is that social media ________
is interactive**
The U.S. military supported the development of the internet because ________
the military feared that war would destroy city-based mass media.
One effective strategy to advance our capacity for media literacy is to ________
assume that there is no "truth" at all
Worldwide, the share of people who access the internet ________
is lower in regions of the world with lower average incomes.
Which of the following concepts refers to interactive media that allows people to communicate with one another and to form communities based on interests and goals?
social media
Which of the following statements about age and internet use in the United States is correct?
About 99 percent of young adults use the internet, as do about 60 percent of adults who have reached the age of sixty-five.
The insight of Marshall McLuhan can be summed up with which of the following statements?
"the medium is the message"
Research indicates that the average U.S. adult typically watches ________ hours of television each day.
5
An increasing share of U.S. employers ________
monitor the social media posted by their employees.
The theoretical approach closely linked to the ideas of Karl Marx is ________
the social-conflict approach
Feminist theory makes the claim that ________
mass media and social media support the domination of males over females.
For the world as a whole, about what share of men and women use the internet?
51% men and 45% women
the first use of the term "World Wide Web" and the creation of the first social-networking site both took place during the ________
1990s
research at Microsoft Corporation concluded that the use of social media increases
capacity to multitask
Research by Sherry Turkle concluded that the use of social media tends to make young people ________
experience less empathy toward others
The first medium of mass communication was the ________
newspaper
by 1955, half of all US households
owned at least one television
The sociologist who explored the "presentation of self" was ________
Erving Goffman
Which of the following people is at the highest risk to experience cyber-bullying?
a young girl
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