Tuesday 12-2 Review
Communication Theories Quiz
Test your knowledge on significant concepts and theorists in the field of communication studies with our engaging quiz! This quiz covers various theories, models, and key figures that have shaped our understanding of media and communication.
Features:
- 33 challenging questions
- Multiple choice format
- Learn while you play!
Who coined the term “The media is the message”?
Marshall McLuhan
Karl Marx
James Carey
Harold Innis
What is the idea that people drive the change and technology reacts to it?
Technological determinism
Social determinism
Media ecology
Intellectual property
What is the difference between form and content?
Technological determinism
Social determinism
Media ecology
Intellectual property
What concept is defined as “moves away from seeking the absolute truth about anything and instead seeks to understand the relative aspects of the things encountered in the world”?
Structuralism
Scaffolding
Post-structuralism
Discourse
Which of the following is NOT one of the 4 stages that signs in human culture have passed through, according to Baudrillard?
Signs are not a ‘reflection of a basic reality’
The sign ‘masks and perverts some basic reality’. Signs are a distortion of the truth but haven’t lost all connection with things that really exis
The sign ‘masks the absence of some basic reality
‘It bears no relation to any reality whatever; it is its own pure simulacrum’
What is the difference between discourse and ideology?
Discourse tends to be modes of thought, speech or expression whereas ideologies can also be material
Ideology tends to be modes of thought, speech or expression whereas discourse can also be material
Discourse is when a driver goes off the course of a racetrack
They are the same thing
Which one of these does NOT make up one of the three layers of Marx's Base theory?
Conditions of production
Means of production
Whoever controls the means of production controls the ideas of a society.
Consummation of production
What was the term Habermas came up with?
The public sphere
The social circle
Continuous communication
The Culture Industry
Which of the following belongs in box 4 of the transmission model?
Information source
Transmitter
Noise Source
Receiver
Which of these quotes best explains an interpretive thought process?
The Truth is absolute
When considering the truth, we must look at all contexts
The Truth is singular
There is no such thing as a truth
What is epistemology?
A branch of communication
A branch of philosophy
A branch of Jungian psychology
A newly descovered astrological sign
Which of these is a truth telling mechanism?
Authority
Imperialism
Evidential
Assumption
Admen realized the power of propaganda advertising after which world event?
French Revolution
WWII
WWI
Russian Revolution
The stimulus response model is also known as:
The Transmission Model
Schramm’s Interactionalist Model
The Two-Step Model
The Hypodermic Model
Bandura’s Bo Bo Doll Experiment tried to prove which phenomenon?
Social Learning Theory
Media violence
Media sexualisation
Antisocial behaviour
What best describes structuralism?
Events can be explained by underlying structures
A method for analyzing language
A study of free will and agency
Post-structuralism
Which one of these is not a main area of study in semiotics?
The sign itself
The codes and systems into which signs are organize
The culture in which these codes and signs operate
The intertextual meaning of a sign
What is the main difference between denotation and connotation?
One is ideological, the other is epistemological
There is no difference
One analyses purely description, the other analyses what is implied
One is structuralist, one is post structuralist
What is the constant goal of cultural studies?
Expose power relationships and examine how these relationships influence and shape cultural practices
Understand culture in all its complex forms and to analyse the social and political context
Expose and reconcile the division of knowledge, to overcome the split between tacit (that is, intuitive knowledge based on local cultures) and objective (so-called universal) forms of knowledge
All answers are correct
What two forms of knowledge does cultural studies attempt to overcome the split between?
Subjective and intellectual
Subjective and objective
Tacit and objective
Tacit and subjective
Which is NOT a root and/ or category outlined by Michael Real in regards to contexts, texts and methods?
Culturalism
Feminism
Impressionism
Structuralism
What school of thought does the transmission model belong to?
The Process School
The Context School
The Social School
None of these
What are the three levels the transmission model works on ?
Level 1 (mechanical), Level 2, (semantic), Level 3 (subjective)
Level E (effectiveness), Level R (reception), Level C (channel)
Level A (technical), Level B (semantic), Level C (effectiveness)
None of these
What do Shannon and Weaver consider to be noise
Music from a younger generation
Anything added to the signal not intended by the source
How information sent through the channel reaches the receiver
Anything outside of their model
What were the four ages of communication, chronologically?
The Age of Signs and Signals, the Age of Mass Communication, the Age of Writing, the Age of Speech and Language
The Age of Speech and Language, the Age of Writing, the Age of Mass Communication, The Age of Signs and Signals
The Age of Speech and Language, the Age of Signs and Signals, the Age of Writing, the Age of Mass Communication
The Age of Signs and Signals, the Age of Speech and Language, the Age of Writing, the Age of Mass Communication
What were the two schools of thought?
The Cultural Context School & The Structuralist School
The Cultural Context School & The Process School
The Cultural School & The Possessed School
The Transmission and the Shannon and Weaver School
What are James Carey’s three basic ways of conceptualising communication?
Behavioural science, formal science & cultural science
Behavioural science, formal science & experimental science
Formal science, experimental science & behavioural science
Conceptual science, formal science & cultural science
What is redundancy? Check all that apply
Redundancy is that which is predictable or conventional in a message.
Redundancy assists in the ease of decoding.
Redundancy is the cause of deficiencies of a noisy channel.
None of the above
What ways did allen and massey argue were the ways of constructing a notion of the world?
An economic world
A political world
A cultural world
All of the above
The continuing erosion of the nation states powers are concerned with the notion of what?
The continuing erosion of the nation states powers are concerned with the notion of what-
The continuing erosion of the nation states powers are concerned with the notion of what?
Globalisation
The political world
The economic world
Spura-nation
The continuing erosion of the nation states powers are concerned with the notion of what?
Globalisation
The political world
The economic world
Spura-national institution
The cultural imperials position proposes...
There is a flow economic information between first world to the third world.
There is a flow of political information between the first world to the third world.
There is a flow of military information between the first world to the third.
There is a flow of cultural information between the first world to the third
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