MASS COMM EXAM PT@

Atari was incorporated by

Nolan Bushnell

T or False: The physiological phenomenon in which images gathered by our eyes are retained by our brains for about one twenty-fourth of a second is called rapid eye movement.

False

Which of the following is not a game console?

Game Boy

The multichannel service, other than cable, that has the greatest number of users is

DBS

Computer stations connected to large, centralized mainframes or minicomputers are called

Terminals

The majority of movies that make it to U.S. theater screens are produced by

Independent Studios

_____Blank is the discrepancy between the expected and actual emotions generated by Facebook activity.

Affective forecasting error

The primary technology used to collect today's television ratings is the audimeter.

False

The idea that social media users tend to show idealized characteristics that don't represent who they are is the

Idealized virtual identity hypothesis

The percentage of television sets currently in use that are tuned in to a given program is that show's

Share

People can see motion in rapidly moving pictures because of the physiological phenomenon known as

persistence of vision

The making of movies is

production

Classic games most often played in spurts that have become a staple on small screen devices such as smartphones are ______Blank games.

casual

IBOC is one form of Web radio.

False

Game console manufacturers will set the foundation for gaming and its technology for the foreseeable future.

False 

Which of the following is not an ESRB game rating?

TO

The first public demonstration of television, in the form of regularly scheduled two-hour broadcasts, was presented by ______ at the 1939 World's Fair.

NBC

T or F: The Lumière brothers' most important contribution to the development of the movies was their introduction of narrative, aided by editing.

False

The collection and selling of people's human experiences not only enrich social media companies but also, according to critics, grant them unprecedented economic control of every form of public discourse. Those critics call this

surveillance capitalism

The process of photography was first invented around 1816 by

Joseph Nicephore Niepce

The first electric pinball game was invented by

Harry Williams

T or F: The Radio Act of 1927 provided spectrum space for noncommercial radio, eventually developing into what we know today as National Public Radio.

False 

After the sinking of the Titanic, the U.S. Congress passed the ______Blank, mandating among other things that wireless operators be licensed by the secretary of commerce and labor.

Radio Act of 1912