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JMS375 Final; Spring 2012
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29
Internet/New Media
Undergraduate 3
05/13/2012

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Term
Which country has the highest use of SNS?
Definition
Israel
Term
Will China replace US as a world’s leading superpower?
Definition
44% said has or will
Term
What company purchased Myspace in 2005?
Definition
News Corporation by Rupert Murdoch
Term
What was the first major social networking site?
Definition
SixDegrees
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What country uses texting the most?
Definition
Indonesia
Term
Who invented the cell phone?
Definition
Marty Cooper
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What is the goal of the U.S. broadband plan by 2020?
Definition
Download Speed of 50 mpbs
Term
Of the broadband connections which is the fastest?
Definition
Fiber Optics
Term
Which country has the fastest broadband speed?
Definition
S. Korea
Term
Which country has the highest broadband penetration per population?
Definition
The Netherlands
Term
Which country has the most broadband subscribers?
Definition
The U.S.
Term
What country spends the most on public media?
Definition
Denmark
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How many views does Youtube get per day?
Definition
Over 2 billion
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Who owns Youtube?
Definition
Google
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Where is Al Jazeera based?
Definition
Qatar
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How much did newspapers lose in classified ad revenues since 2005?
Definition
67%
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What sites have hurt commercial media the most?
Definition
Free ad sites [such as craigslist/ebay]
Term
What act helped create Barney & Sesame Street?
Definition
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
Term
How is Public broadcasting [PBS, NPR] in the U.S. Funded?
Definition
Taxpayers/ government, Private Donations, and corporate sponsors.
Term
How is BBC [British Broadcasting Corporation] funded?
Definition
Taxes on television
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What happened to Mubarak?
Definition
Still awaiting trial to occur in June
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What is the status of Egypt?
Definition
Still under military rule
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Who started the Facebook page?
Definition
A Google executive living in the Middle East.
(Egyptian government arrested him and kept him tied up and blind-folded.)
Term
January 25th protest actually began:
Definition
The Day of Rage
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What event sparked the social media campaign in Egypt?
Definition
Beating of a businessman for posting a video on his blog of police divvying up drugs after a bust. Kahled Said, found him and beat him to death.
Term
Who was the President of Egypt for 30 years until 2011?
Definition
Hosni Mubarak
Term
Iran protests were held in 2009 because
Definition
Citizens were protesting the results of the presidential election
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Why did the U.S. rating decline?
Definition
Arrests of journalists in Occupy Wall Street
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The Great Firewall is a nickname for what country?
Definition
China: because of all the government's bans on the internet
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