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191.

The ability of television to influence important foreign policy decisions by appealing to people's emotions has been called by Madeleine Albright:

A.	Multiple points of access	B.	The CNN effect
C.	Binding culture	D.	The third person effect

192.

Genres refer to:

A.	Categories of expression within the different media, for example, the evening news and documentaries	B.	Communication strategies employed by preliterate cultures
C.	Different types of feedback in mass and interpersonal communication	D.	Bounded cultures ability to limit expression

193.

Production values refers to:

A.	The specific internal language of a given medium for example the choice of lighting in a soap opera	B.	The common assumption that media messages affect others, but not ourselves
C.	The characteristic, distinctive, standardized style elements of a given form of media expression, for example the up-beat music that introduces the local evening news.	D.	Categories of expression within the different media, for example, the evening news and documentaries.

194.

The Internat is:

A.	An integral part of the Information Superhighway	B.	An indirect product of the Cold War
C.	A global network of interconnected computers	D.	All of the above

195.

Computers rely on a binary code for data storage and manipulation. That is, they reduce information to:

A.	The digits 1 and 0	B.	Bundles of information packets
C.	A series of electrical impulses	D.	Microchips

196.

Usenet:

A.	Is the scientific movement originating in the 1960s, that studied the use of information to control or govern systems and environments that house them.	B.	Are devices that translate digital computer information into an analog form so it can be transmitted through telephone lines
C.	Allows users to log into other computers on the Internet as if they were connected to them directly.	D.	Is the internationally distributed bulletin board system on the Internet

197.

The end of a Web site name contains information like us, gb, corn, and org. These are called

A.	Categories	B.	Zones
C.	URLs.	D.	Ids.

198.

Traditionalists argue that commercialization of the Internet

A.	Is natural and inevitable	B.	Will be good for the world economy
C.	Will lead to growing privatization and control	D.	Must be carefully regulated by the government

199.

Propaganda:

A.	Is inconsistent with contemporary public relations emphasis on two-way communication	B.	Has a negative connotation and is rarely cited as a public relations function
C.	Is the generation of more or less automatic responses to given symbols	D.	None of these

200.

Siquis were:

A.	Early personal ads in local papers.	B.	Carved stone announcements in ancient Greece
C.	Attractive, artful 15th century business cards	D.	Common 15th century European pinup want ads for a variety of products and services