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| Who created the star system? |
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| What is the significance of "War of the Worlds"? |
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| The War of the Worlds was a radio broadcast that shocked millions of people, used special effects and people believed them |
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| What was the first talkie? |
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| motion pictures with syncronized sound for dialogue |
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| Where did movies move from? |
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| Good location, good weather, cheap, and way less regulations |
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| Regulated movies and established the rating system |
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| What was the studio system? |
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| When movies emphasized certain stars to draw in an audience example, brad pitt in multiple movies every yr |
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| Holly wood was scared of having communism in films |
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| What was the Hollywood blacklist |
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| list of entertainers who were denied employment bc of political beliefs |
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| companies with same owner owned 3 types of buisnesses (production, distribution, and movie theaters), a law was passed that now they could only hold 2/3 of there buisnesses they had to sell one |
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| why was that law passed (Vertical integration ) |
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| goverment thought paramount was a monopoly |
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| What is nonlinear editing? |
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| means everything doesnt need to be shot in the right order |
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| FCC Freeze, what year was it and what happened ? |
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year - 1948
there werent enough channels to serve all the cities so there was a temp. freeze on any new stations till they came up with a plan |
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| when was the golden age ? |
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| early 1950s, when they play i love lucy |
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| Nixon/Kennedy debate - what was the impact? |
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| first presedential debate on live t.v. - showed how differet it was hearing than just listening |
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| the rental or licensing of media products |
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| at first cities couldnt get all channels with cable cities in the rural areas could get more channels |
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| What r the big three in tV. ? |
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| how do movie theaters make most of their profit? |
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| what was the penny press? |
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newspapers for a penny
first form of mass media |
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investigative reporting about corruption and injust affairs
in other words, using journalism to as a means of attacking injustice, exposing abuses, and circulating information about misconduct to the general public. |
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| what were the differences of the information age compared to the industrial age |
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industrial age - scare and expensive to report news
in the information age it was cheap and abundant |
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| What type of society r we in today ? |
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| the minority opinion is scared to speak up |
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| first voice transmission over wires |
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| use of media to create a consensus around an idea |
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simutaneous content
very interactive
face to face
skype |
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not at the same time
ex; email, letter, text message |
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| What does SMCR stand for ? |
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| Sender/ Source....Messsage....Channel...Receiver |
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sender - youtube
message - youtube video
channel - youtube.com streaming video, online
Receiver- the at home audience |
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when media companies started to combine media forms
for example radio used to only use radios as a form of media
now radio stations use the internet
cnn used to only have shows on tv now they have them online as well |
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| narrowcasting, ex; selling/advertising legos on nickeloadean |
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| give inventor rights to sell for 20 years |
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| children's internet protection act of 2001 |
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| libraries had to filter content if they wanted gov. money |
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| 4 stage model for ethics, 1. define situation,identify values, principles, loyalties |
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| what was first feautre length film? |
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| who created birth of a nation, the first feature length film? |
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| first blockbuster that used multiple camera angles |
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| when did tv start when did it take off? |
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| tv started n 1920s but didnt take off till 1950s bc of fcc regulations during war didnt want to waste bandwith |
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| early 1950s ....tv can do anything bc of low regulation |
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| example of syndication, a tv channel |
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| telecommunications act 1996 |
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| goal was to let anyone enter the field of communications and deregualtion of the broadcasting market some ppl say it overturned vertical intergration, channels culd buy up whatever they want |
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| first computer, charles babbage, design? |
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| processors size will cut in half every 18months memory size(chip performance) will double.... data density, number of transitors |
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| first computer u could take home |
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internet is structure
web is the info./conent |
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| hyper-personal model, what is it? |
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| relationships online, edit your profile online to show charecterstics that u want to show |
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| who invented the telephone |
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| elisha gray, invented telephone |
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| invented AT&T, first phone company, very powerful, was ruled a monopoly |
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| communication act of 1934 |
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AT&T - common carrier
Monopoly investigation |
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| how long have cell phones been round for? |
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| first car phone england 1950 |
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| why did it take so long to launch phones |
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| telecommunications act of 1996 |
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| deregulated telecommunication industry |
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obscenity test ...originated from miller v. california
-3 pong test |
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| what does the miller test contain what three things? |
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| everything is going to destroy the kids |
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| when was telegraph invented |
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| when was telegraph invented ? |
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| wat was the new tech. in 1880s |
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| uses eye catching headlines to drag in audience, no facts or reasearch necesarily |
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| when was yellow journalism what time period ? |
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| believed in unbiased and factual news |
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| record based, how genres developed |
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| saying station name over and over again |
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| radio in every house, tech. n every home |
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| 3 major stages of computers |
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| transitors, microcomouters, pcs |
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| designed by steve wonziac |
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| first home video game console |
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| first home videogame console |
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| first well-known home console |
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| who invented horses, first movie |
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| revenue of pacman in quarters |
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| $20 million, 2x revenue of casios |
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| first movie star faked death by car accident |
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| head of pca ratings ....he would rewrite movie scripts and change movies |
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| when all 3 movies r filmed together lord of the rings for example |
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| first national pay television network |
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| computers only work one task at time |
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| voice of war of the worlds |
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| when was hayes code terminated |
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| breens worked with hayes, code started in 1930 |
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| who introduced veil of ignorance |
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| immanuael kant categorical imperative |
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| act on the maxim you wish to become universal law |
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| to seek happiness for greatest amount of ppl |
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| the end justifies the means |
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| media spreads like a disease |
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| required all radio stations to register with the federal gov. |
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| who created great train robbery? |
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| companies that own various forms of media such as television internet tv ppublising ex. walt dinsey |
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| wooden china 1051 1st printing press |
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| 1st movable form of type was clay |
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| 1st movable form of type was clay |
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| no freedom of press in europe in 17th and 18th century |
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| few magazines survived bc of shipping costs too high |
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| second class mailing rights low cost distribution gave magazines special rates |
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| hearst said u furnish the pictures ill furnish the war |
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| cable companies that operate in more than jsut one place n mroe than jsut one county |
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| ratings for tvs developed system |
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| media conglomerates example |
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