Jour 101 ch 10

Paul Baran's idea of cutting messages into small pieces and sending them on the easiest route was known as which of the following?

One of the big advantages of distributing a movie over the Internet instead of in theaters is which of the following?

The World Wide Web was developed almost entirely as a for-profit venture.

Approximately 60 percent of all the people living on the African continent have access to the Internet.

Employers are increasingly wanting to view the social media sites for people they are considering hiring.

The World Wide Web became the standard for posting documents on the Internet because its creator did which of the following?

A major advantage of the Internet as a source of news is that only accurate information gets posted.

The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the address of content placed on the Web.

The Internet differs from traditional media because it contains elements of interpersonal, group, and mass communication.

More than half of the world's population can be considered "active" Internet users according to a chart described in the lecture.

Google News has a large staff to decide which news stories will get posted to the site.

The audience for online news sites has now surpassed the size of the audience for television news.

Broadcast journalist Tony Russell uses the following social media platform regularly on the job ___________________________.

HTML consists of a series of tags that say how text ought to be represented, where graphics should be placed, and what links should be included.

According to Tim Berners-Lee, which of the following is a principle upon which the Web is based?

Video games could be considered a new mass medium because:

One example of reversse synergy discussed in the lecture included __________________________.

Social media are online sites that allow users to:

One of the biggest supporters of the net neutrality movement is Comcast.

People connect to the Internet using which of the following?

Which of the following is the abbreviation for the name of an address where Web pages are located?

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers should ________________________.

According to the lecture, in North America, ____ percent of the ovreall population has access to the Internet at home.

Who developed TCP/IP, the original specification for the Internet's protocols?

Web sites use _____ to track users while they are on the site.

A blog is a collection of links and commentary in hypertext that can be created and posted on the Internet.

On a Web site, cookies are which of the following?

Twitter was originally created so people could share their answers to the question:

Information from the Internet may be unreliable because it does not have the gatekeepers deciding what information should or should not be published.