Study Guide Test 2

STUDY GUIDE

Disclosure: All material in chapters 3, 4, 5 (Internet, Print, Radio/Sound Recording) (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 Radio, Photography, Penny Press, and the World Wide Web (a few that might be good to know... Benjamin Day, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee....)

• What is a bit?

• p. 95... revenue models for digital media (advertising, subscription, e-commerce)

• Analog media examples

• Table 3-1 on p.71

• Capabilities of Digital TV (from Chapter 3)

• 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

• What kind of comics prompted the Comics Code Authority? (Crime? Horror? Romance? Sci-Fi?)

• Payola

• Current challenges of magazines

• What is muckraking?

• Advantages of digital information over analog?

• Benefits and problems of newspaper chains? p.121

•Three major trends of the book industry

•Radio before, during, and after WWI

• Radio Act of 1927

• Matthew Brady

• Vint Cerf

• What is the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act)?

Essay question topics (you will get a couple options and pick one)
• The Penny Press
• Digital Music, piracy and the effects
• The Telecommunication Act of 1996