TMA3/MAC212

TMA Quiz Questions TMA: TMA3/MAC212 Matric Number:  SCORE=10.00 MAC212 - Media and Society Miss Ndukwe Grace (gndukwe@noun.edu.ng ) 1 The oldest medium of mass communication is Books Newspapers Television Radio 2 The print media is that which involve all the following except Pressing of ink on paper Sense of sight Literacy Sound 3 Mass media can be broadly classified into Print and newspaper Print and electronic Newspaper and television Radio and electronic 4 Which of these is a type of communication? Locomotive Interaction Verbal Information 5 Communication can be defined as all of these except Any means by which a thought is transferred from one person to another A process by which people share and impart information to others The giving of understandable information and receiving and understanding the message The expansion of information and ideas in geographical locations 6 ……………………..means that the mass media is to inform and provide information to the society by keeping watch on the activities of government. Surveillance Investigative Watchful Interpretative 7 A function of the mass media as the bestowal of prestige on people is referred to as……. Prestige bestowal Status bestowal Prestige conferral Status conferral 8 The primary function of the mass media is to………. Entertain Inform Educate Critic 9 The broadcast media have the ability to affect humans in all these ways but one: The mind Emotions Transmission Actions 10 The electronic media technique can be divided into these except one Injunction Production Transmission Reception 11 Readers Digest is an example of …………………. General interest magazine Specialized magazine Literary magazine Junk magazine 12 One of these is common to both traditional and modern forms of mass communication Wider in their concepts Sophisticated in their processes Dynamic in their operations They can re-engineer the society 13 One of these is not a characteristic of trado-communication system its communication process is tiresome its communication process is tedious in nature. Its communication system is unlimited to divers groups Its communication system is restricted to a homogenous group 14 Joint government and private ownership of the media is a joint venture between the government and private businessmen and this is very common in Europe  America Nigeria Canada 15 Herbert Altschull cited in Lamidi et al (2008) insisted that an independent press cannot exist because the press is still inhibited by endogenous and exogenous problems like economic challenges, technological impotency, censorship and social mishaps Nigerian journalists have no challenging issues to attack the news organs are agents of the people who exercise political and economic control the fire of the media seem to have been quenched 16 Some people believe that the Nigerian press was borne and nurtured in the waters of colonialism  With the growth of political awareness by Africans With leaders’ advocating for development journalism Through improvements in the training of professionals and communication research 17 The years between 1800-1949 is known as Colonial era Pre-independence era Post-independence era Post-independence era 18 George Simmel in Daramola (2005:2) defines society a network of social interaction the web of social relationship a number of individuals connected by interactions any group of people who have lived and worked together long enough to think of themselves as a social unit 19 ……..are the oldest medium of mass communication Newspapers Books Radio Television 20 Murphy (1977) likens societal impacts of the media to oil, glue and dynamite. As oil, Murphy asserts that It builds up and reinforces the fabrics that hold a society together it keeps the world running smoothly by helping individuals adjust to the reality of life it creates modes of perception and thought it can rip the society apart