Study Guide Test 2

STUDY GUIDE

Disclosure: All material in chapters 3, 4, 5 and 6 (and lecture) is fair game.

How to use this guide: for terms listed below (e.g., "Wikis"), it would be good to know the general definition and maybe an example or two. For other topics to study, I may have a longer question ("Benefits and problems of newspaper chains?")

Material from the test may include, but is not limited to the following…

• Names associated with the invention of Film, TV, Radio, Photography, Penny Press, and the World Wide Web

• What is a bit?

• Analog media examples

• Table 3-1 on p.71

• Wikis

• Digital Divide

• History of the Internet

• Books in the digital age

• HTTP

• Technological determinism

• WWW inventor, year

• First web browser

• Open source

• Gutenberg's printing press

• John Peter Zenger

• Payola

• Current challenges of magazines

• First sound film?

• What is muckraking?

• Advantages of digital information over analog?

• Benefits and problems of newspaper chains?

•Three major trends of the book industry

•Radio before, during, and after WWI

• Digital TV

• Matthew Brady

• Vint Cerf

Essay question topics (you will get a couple options and pick one)
• The Penny Press
• Digital Music, piracy and the effects
• Telecommunications Act of 1996
• History and description of the Hollywood Star System