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selective exposure - correct answer ✔✔people usually seek messages and produce meanings
that correspond to their own cultural beliefs, values, and interests.
cross platform - correct answer ✔✔describes a business model that involves consolidating
various media holdings, such as cable connections, phone services, television transmissions, and
internet access, under one corporate umbrella
high culture - correct answer ✔✔ballet, art museums
low culture - correct answer ✔✔soap operas, rock music, video games
Modern period - correct answer ✔✔beginning with the industrial revolution of the 19th
century: efficiency, individualism, rationalism, progress
Progressive Era - correct answer ✔✔a period of political and social reform that lasted roughly
from the 1890s to the 1920s.
Muckrakers - correct answer ✔✔journalists who exposed corruption, waste and scandal in
business and politics-represented media's contribution to this era
Postmodern period - correct answer ✔✔roughly the midtwentieth century to today. music
videos, remote controls, Nike ads, reality tv, hip hop. FOUR MAJOR VALUES: populism, diversity,
nostalgia, and paradox.
, Critical process - correct answer ✔✔description, analysis, interpretation, evaluation, and
engagement
Advanced ResearchProjects Agency - correct answer ✔✔ARPA, developed a solution to enable
researchers to share computer processing time tarting in the late 1960s. Nicknamed "net"
packet switching prevented log jams in data communication.
email - correct answer ✔✔1970
microprocessors - correct answer ✔✔miniature circuits that process and store electronic
signals. Allowed first personal computors
fiber optic cable - correct answer ✔✔mid 1980s, the standard for transmitting communication
data speedily.
World Wide Web - correct answer ✔✔developed in the late 1980s by software engineer Tim
Berners-Lee in Switzerland. Text data linking system.
Hyper Text Markup Language - correct answer ✔✔the written code that creates web pages and
links, is a language that all computers can use.
browsers - correct answer ✔✔the software packages that help users navigate the web-brought
the web to mass audiences
Internet service provider (ISP) - correct answer ✔✔AOL was the first top ISP.
broadband connections - correct answer ✔✔which can quickly download multimedia content,
became more available, users moved away from telephone dial up.