Final Exam: Media Semester Test

Please study the following terms/concepts for our test on Friday, Jan. 19:

See the blog, your handouts, and review our projects from the beginning of the year until now.

Key terms/topics:

• communication & mass communication
• mass media
• convergence
• cross platform
• technological determinism & social determinism
• narrative
• print revolution
• high/low culture
• The history of technology (printing through the digital age)
• The critical process: description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation, engagement
• The transition between print/electronic & digital eras
• Linear model of communication
• Cultural model of communication
• Skyscraper model/map model of culture
• The origin and history of the internet
• Types of social media
• Problems/issues in social media
• Role of mobile devices in mass media
• History and development of the internet and early computing
• Open/closed internet
• Data mining
• Digital divide
• Net neutrality
• Internet memes
• Blogging
• Arcade/console/personal computer games
• MMORPGs
• Genres of digital gaming
• Influence of digital gaming on media culture
• Misogyny, violence, addiction in the gaming industry
• Interactive fiction & text based games
• How to write violent scenes in games/stories/print
• Different types of imagery
• The history of print (books, from papyrus to paperbacks)
• The printing press & Gutenberg
• The history and development of publishing houses
• The relationship between book publishing & the film industry
• e-books and Kindle (digitized books); changes and issues in the print industry
• Publishing genres & paperback genres
• Editing marks  
• The role of editors & literary magazine jobs
• Amazon's role in the publishing industry
• Back cover copy/copyright page
• How to write a query letter
• Maus & growth and popularity of graphic novels
• The history of comics
• Banned books
• Blockbusters & Best Selling Novels
• Development of sound recording
• How rock & roll influenced mass media & cultural boundaries
• How the British invasion impacted mass media & culture
• How hip-hop & punk rock influenced/impacted mass media & culture
• The business of sound recording
• The early technology and development of radio
• Telegraph
• Guglielmo Marconi & Lee De Forest
• AM/FM
• The Radio Act of 1912 & 1927
• FRC (Federal Radio Commission)
• Communications Act of 1934
• Orson Welles contribution to radio & film
• Radio plays (& script format)
• The War of the Worlds radio broadcast & script
• Douglas Adams & the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Edwin Armstrong
• RCA
• Top 40 format
• Nonprofit and NPR radio
• Writing film critiques
• Sound in film: soundtrack, score, sound effects, diegetic/nondiegetic sound
• Film terms: shot, scene, storyboard, montage, fade, dissolve, narrative, tropes, motifs
• Basic camera shots and angles
• Harry Potter's success as a book/film series
• Hidden Figures (film)
• Geeks (the term and the book)