Question 1

______ is the means for Facebook's economic ends. Facebook permanently monitors users for economic ends, which means that no economic privacy is guaranteed to them.

Accepted Answer

A)   Premium social media
B)   Sponsored content
C)   Data surveillance
D)   Web-based advertising

Question 2

Historically, game companies have imagined an audience filled with ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   young, White, and heterosexual males
B)   young and multiethnic males
C)   White males of all ages
D)   young, White men and women

Question 3

In many ways, #Gamergate is simply Internet business as usual; much of the vitriol chronicled here is routinely found in other virtual places. Yet, and importantly, #Gamergate made this kind of "ordinary" harassment newsworthy, calling our collective attention to ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   the idea that online spaces are much safer than traditional spaces, with people rarely if ever being abused
B)   the abuse people endure in sport games
C)   the sustained abuse many people endure in order to participate in online spaces
D)   the positivity of online spaces as spaces away from the harassment found in many real day-to-day places

Question 4

According to the author, gossip websites, fan sites, and blogs provide a plethora of new locations for ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   people to vent frustrations and ideologies
B)   the circulation and creation of celebrity
C)   creating new online threats
D)   the reinvention of community forums and discourse

Question 5

In the registers of emotion and affect, Asian American youth also work through and against the specter of the model minority as a prescriptive racial fiction. Throughout its popular cultural history, Asian America has propagated the "grander passions" of anger, rage, and shame.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The death of Michael Brown quickly captured the imagination of thousands across and beyond the United States. Protesters from around the nation flocked to Ferguson to participate in demonstrations calling for ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   the officer to be released and the charges be dropped
B)   Michael Brown to be officially recognized as a civil rights figure
C)   the arrest of the officer responsible for the fatal shooting
D)   the entire police department to be held responsible for the death of Michael Brown C

Question 7

By documenting the organizing efforts of GimpGirl Community moderators and their learning experiences over the past decade, we were able to inquire into the connections between ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   online technologies and the capabilities people need to develop and maintain communities
B)   digital and real-world communities and the need to develop and maintain contact
C)   entertainment and communities and the capabilities corporations need to develop and maintain customers
D)   online messages and physical mail and ways that countries need to regulate in order to maintain safety for citizens

Question 8

As the article specifies, networked media is ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   changing sports culture, the ways that people relate to sports images, and how athletes are produced
B)   altering the scientific culture, the ways that people relate to scientific news, how research is produced, and how science is practiced
C)   changing celebrity culture, the ways that people relate to celebrity images, how celebrities are produced, and how celebrity is practiced
D)   causing people to become reliant on network news for their information and ideas

Question 9

In considerations of the use of ______ to articulate shared interests and mobilize political action, the recent history of its role in antiauthoritarian movements throughout the Middle East and Africa looms large.

Accepted Answer

A)   physical "snail" mail
B)   social media
C)   digital e-mail
D)   live community forums

Question 10

What is the difference and tension between corporate convergence and grassroots convergence?

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

As the author describes, the media imperialism argument blurs the distinction between at least four forms of power. Which of the following is not one of the four discussed?

Accepted Answer

A)   economic
B)   cultural
C)   coercive
D)   psychological

Question 12

"Authenticity" is a social construct that is ultimately ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   always relative and context dependent
B)   always false
C)   either true or false depending on the context and intended audience
D)   only true to the receiver and not relevant to the sender

Question 13

From a Foucauldian perspective, people with disabilities live immersed in a ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   constant state of being judged by others
B)   pathological discourse of disability, as an object of disciplinary power
C)   state of always being separate from the rest of the "normal" world
D)   marginalized and seen as something less

Question 14

Alvin Toffler introduced the notion of the ______ in the early 1980s.

Accepted Answer

A)   consumer
B)   prosumer
C)   producer
D)   professional shopper

Question 15

Grassroots convergence serves the needs of both ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   urban and suburban
B)   national and global
C)   statewide and countrywide
D)   cosmopolitan and local D

Question 16

How does hashtag activism distinguish itself from "real" activism?

Accepted Answer

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Question 17

What is machinima?

Accepted Answer

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Question 18

The article talks about two forces--the top-down push of corporate convergence and the bottom-up pull of grassroots convergence. These forces intersect to produce what might be called global convergence, the unidirectional flow of consumer goods around the country.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

As explained in the article, Wilson's characterization of himself as a child and of Brown as ______ became part of an exculpatory narrative in which the unarmed teenager was framed as the true threat, not the police officer who shot and killed him.

Accepted Answer

A)   a deranged youth
B)   a dangerous criminal
C)   an easily angered man
D)   a superhuman monster

Question 20

According to authors, prior research demonstrates that people of color are not commonly perceived as a possible threat to society and that Latino immigrants are not an exception.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

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