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Q:
Under our constitutional system, the president has the authority to __________.
a. abolish existing programs and agencies
b. force agencies to respect the rights of individuals
c. investigate agency activities and compel bureaucrats to testify about them
d. make changes in an agency's annual budget proposals
e. refuse to appropriate funds for certain programs
Q:
Even though the Hispanic population is fairly small, they earned their civil rights earlier and more completely than did African Americans.
Q:
Which of the following expanded Americans' conceptions of personal liberty to include some forms of freedom from discrimination?
a. Declaration of Independence
b. Fourteenth Amendment
c. Preamble to the Constitution
d. idea of majority rule
e. idea of equality
Q:
If political scientists are correct, what are the effects of a college education on a citizen's voting choices?
Q:
Public opinion polls confirm that women have more liberal attitudes than men about social issues.
Q:
The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from engaging in what activity?
a. adjudicating legal disputes
b. exercising administrative discretion
c. running for elected office
d. refusing to implement laws passed by Congress
e. ignoring the directives of the president
Q:
The Supreme Court has prohibited school districts from using race when determining which students will attend which schools.
Q:
Explain how critics of the Defense of Marriage Act invoke the full faith and credit clause.
Q:
Which function of government provides for police protection?
a. establishing justice
b. providing for the common defense
c. promoting the general welfare
d. ensuring domestic tranquility
e. securing the blessings of liberty
Q:
What are the differences between the primary and general election campaigns?
Q:
Simple random samples are not very useful for predicting voting outcomes because they may undersample or oversample key populations not likely to vote.
Q:
What is implementation?
a. the process by which a law or policy is put into practice
b. the development of rules governing the operation of a government program
c. a set of procedures executive branch agencies must follow when issuing rules
d. the process by which government agencies settle legal disputes
e. a set of rules enforcing government agreements with private contractors
Q:
In Reed v. Reed, the Supreme Court established the strict scrutiny test for determining if gender discrimination is constitutionally permissible.
Q:
In an oligarchy, rule is by which of the following?
a. the many
b. the few
c. one person
d. property owners
e. all the people
Q:
What is a midterm election? What effect can midterm elections have on the president's party?
Q:
Like the Literary Digest, George Gallup incorrectly predicted the results of the 1936 election between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alf Landon.
Q:
Political appointees in the federal bureaucracy __________.
a. may remain in office until a new party majority in Congress
b. may remain in office until a new president is elected
c. often remain in office despite political changes
d. serve fixed terms of office lasting two years
e. serve fixed terms of office lasting four years
Q:
Reconstruction was the era of racial healing that followed the civil rights movement.
Q:
What are republics?
a. representative democracies
b. direct democracies
c. a hallmark of unitary governments
d. forms of government frequently found in totalitarian regimes
e. another name for states
Q:
Discuss three ways the United States could improve voter turnout.
Q:
Agenda setting affects the executive branch more than it affects the Supreme Court due to __________.
a. bias
b. press releases
c. press conferences
d. media influence
e. framing
Q:
Cabinet secretaries are appointed by __________ and confirmed by __________.
a. the president; the Senate
b. the president; the House of Representatives
c. the president; the Supreme Court
d. the Senate; the president
e. the House of Representatives; the Supreme Court
Q:
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court overturned the separate-but-equal doctrine that the Court had established in Brown v. Board of Education.
Q:
Explain the privileges and immunities clause.
Q:
Indirect democracy is based on which of the following?
a. consensus
b. unanimity
c. representation
d. "mob rule"
e. the system of government used in ancient Greece
Q:
What are the two main ideologies competing in the United States? How does ideology affect the choices voters make?
Q:
Which is a primary reason that news cameras are not allowed in the Supreme Court?
a. the Court Exclusivity Act of 1921
b. to create an exclusive environment
c. New York Times Co. v.U.S.
d. to avoid politicization of Court activity
e. the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Q:
The Administrative Procedures Act states that agencies must take what step before issuing new rules and regulations?
a. They must obtain approval from the president.
b. They must obtain approval from Congress.
c. They must consult with an administrative law judge.
d. They must post information about the proposed rules on their websites.
e. They must solicit public comments.
Q:
Courts have not allowed men to use the Fourteenth Amendment to fight gender-based discrimination, since men are the majority and do not experience such discrimination.
Q:
What is a system of government in which members of the polity meet to discuss all policy decisions and then agree to abide by majority rule?
a. oligarchy
b. direct democracy
c. monarchy
d. tyranny
e. democracy
Q:
What was the problem with the original design of the Electoral College? How was this problem corrected?
Q:
As discussed in the "Take a Closer Look" box, what has a significant impact on a news agency's ability to influence what is discussed at a White House press briefing?
a. the time of day when the briefing occurs
b. the agenda set forth by the press secretary
c. seat assignments in the briefing room
d. the number of reporters permitted in the briefing room
e. whether the president attends the briefing
Q:
The __________ was one of the first executive branch departments in the U.S. government.
a. the Department of Agriculture
b. the Department of Labor
c. the Department of the Interior
d. the Commerce Department
e. the Treasury Department
Q:
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 has expanded educational and sports opportunities for women students.
Q:
What was the most common initial reason for settlement in North America by the first colonists?
a. cultural inclusiveness
b. religious freedom
c. the right to vote
d. exploration
e. commerce
Q:
What are some of the duties of a campaign manager?
Q:
Deep Throat of the Watergate scandal was which kind of journalistic source?
a. on the record
b. off the record
c. on background
d. deep background
e. press release
Q:
__________ refers to the authority of administrators in the federal bureaucracy to make choices concerning the best way to implement policies.
a. Adjudication
b. Discretion
c. Division of labor
d. Independence
e. Rule-making
Q:
The Supreme Court has affirmed the right of consenting adults to engage in private sexual activity.
Q:
Explain how nullification was used by the South during the Civil War.
Q:
How does the Preamble to the Constitution begin?
a. "We the People . . ."
b. "Four score and seven years ago . . ."
c. "When in the course of human events . . ."
d. "In order to form a more perfect Union . . ."
e. "These are the times that try men's souls . . ."
Q:
What activities do candidates concentrate on during the nomination campaign?
Q:
The rise of Spanish language television and news programming is an example of __________.
a. narrowcasting
b. the fairness doctrine
c. public broadcasting
d. the equal time rule
e. media consolidation
Q:
The largest organizational unit in the federal bureaucracy is a(n) __________.
a. agency
b. bureau
c. commission
d. corporation
e. department
Q:
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. championed the use of nonviolent resistance/civil disobedience to advance civil rights.
Q:
Describe how you have been a fan of a media text. How did participation in a fan community effect your identity? Were there dangerous aspects of fandom?
Q:
What are the stages of moral panic?
Q:
Why is whitewashing dangerous?
Q:
YouTube can be seen as ______________.
a. an inexpensive way for media conglomerates to distribute content
b. a form of individual self-expression
c. culturally generative
d. all of the above
Q:
Posting personal YouTube performances can be a way of exploring one's identity.
a. True
b. False
Q:
A vlog __________.
a. wasn"t watched by your grandparents
b. does not rely on corporate funding
c. is hard to produce
d. all of the above
Q:
Moral panics are rarely spread though popular media.
a. True
b. False
Q:
The GGC allowed participants to find agency as ________ and ___________.
a. women, persons with disabilities
b. children, persons with disabilities
c. women, men
d. women, soap opera fans
Q:
In media studies, scholars want to understand how representations of Whiteness normalize it and make it invisible.
a. True
b. False
Q:
The article by Flores-Yeffal et al, about Latino moral panic uses what two methodologies?
a. political economy and audience reception
b. ethnography and political economy
c. ethnography and content analysis
d. content analysis and political economy
Q:
The main difference between science fiction activism and soap opera activity is____________.
a. the populations of fans
b. the content of the shows
c. the networks relationship to the stars
d. the degree of organization
Q:
The origin of organized media fandom is attributed to the fans of _____________.
a. Star Wars
b. I Love Lucy
c. Star Trek
d. All my Children
Q:
Machinima is a site of struggle over ___________ in shared digital space.
a. gender
b. class
c. sexual orientation
d. race
Q:
Alternative modes of sexual expression is backgrounded in popular fandom just as it is in dominant popular culture.
a. True
b. False
Q:
Depictions of same-sex relationship have always been present in the media, but early images required a _____________ reading.
a. dominant
b. subtextual
c. hegemonic
d. Marxist
Q:
The Showtime sponsored websites linked to The L word helped produce ______________.
a. more diverse representations of lesbians
b. the "good gay"
c. the "bad gay"
d. the "bad heterosexual"
Q:
Showtime's The L Word was praised for its diverse representations of lesbian characters.
a. True
b. False
Q:
Diaspora is _______________.
a. an alternative to Facebook
b. selling advertising at alarming rates
c. unconcerned with privacy
d. none of the above
Q:
According to Fuchs, users of Facebook are
a. prosumers
b. exploited
c. sold to advertisers
d. all of the above
Q:
A prosumer __________
a. is pro consumerism
b. is pro consumption because it stimulates the free market
c. progressively blurs the line that separates producer from consumer
d. none of the above
Q:
The top-down push of corporate convergence and the bottom-up pull of grassroots convergence intersect to produce ____________.
a. anarchy
b. global convergence
c. pop cosmopolitan
d. confusion
Q:
The term ___________ refers to the ways that the transcultural flows of popular culture inspire new forms of global consciousness and cultural competency.
a. pop cosmopolitan
b. media convergence
c. grassroots convergence
d. corporate convergence
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Media convergence does not have an ultimate endpoint.
a. True
b. False
Q:
The endpoint of media convergence is the black box.
a. True
b. False
Q:
The term _____________refers to "the reaction of a society against a specific social group based on beliefs that the subgroup represents a major threat to society."
a. heteronormativity
b. fandom
c. corporate convergence
d. moral panic
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Heteronormativity is prejudice against heterosexuals.
a. True
b. False
Q:
___________ refers to the increasingly central roles that digitally empowered consumers play in shaping the production, distribution and reception of media content.
a. Grassroots convergence
b. Corporate convergence
c. Hegemony
d. Saturation
Q:
When media ownership is in fewer and fewer hands and media content flows over different platforms and boarders, this is called ______________.
a. grassroots convergence
b. corporate convergence
c. hegemony
d. saturation
Q:
When fans "poach" they are ______________.
a. making eggs
b. stealing
c. borrowing from current media texts and rewriting them
d. being passive audience members
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__________________ tend(s) to emphasize the potential of grassroots media culture productivity to undermine or challenge the dominance that corporate producers have over media culture.
a. Social activists
b. Fandom studies
c. Cultural studies
d. Marxist theorists
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For cultural studies, Marxism argues that the economic structure of society (the base) has little influence on the superstructure.
a. True
b. False
Q:
How can Television viewing be regarded as therapy?
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Why does contemporary TV frequently show characters discovering who they "really are" through live performances?
Q:
How does Judge Judy convey neoliberalism?
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The use of file sharing is an example of __________.
*a. digital convergence
b. the American Dream
c. intertextuality
d. post-Fordism