Chapter 10 Practice Quiz

Technology-Mediated Social Relationships
. ________ was NOT a member of the Toronto School of Communication.

. According to Harold A. Innis, media bias refers to ________.

. McLuhan can be credited for ________.

. The telephone brought about changes in social accessibility, which of the following is a key change:

. ________ came to the Internet later in life and have been generally slow and apprehensive to adopt novel forms of communication.

. Canadians have adopted many digital devices in the past decade, which of the following devices is the least commonly owned by Canadians in 2016.

. Higgins's 1987 definition of "the self" involves ________.

. Cyber bystanders are best described as follows ________.

. Cyberbullying is usually thought of as ________.

. Common online information usage following a breakup includes ________.

. Effects that social media have on romantic relationships include ________.

. Which is the most popular social media site in Canada?

. Gershon (2010) outlined several key concepts to explain how people adopt social media in their daily communications practices. Those concepts do NOT include ________.

. Which of the following situations best describes context collapse as defined by boyd?

. In a study of selfie culture, Diefenbach and Christoforakos examine the intricacies of how young people engage with selfies. They found that selfies were motivated by which of the following?

. The claim that we are currently witnessing the domestication and mainstreaming of the Web means that ________.

. The Internet is viewed as a thanatechnology because it is ________. a utopian community

. One of the forms of mourning on the Internet is ________.

. An activity that Carroll and Landry (2010) observed on social networking sites after a person's death was ________.

. Ghosting is defined as ________.

. Twitter is an example of a return to an oral culture away from contemporary print culture.

. Ong distinguishes between primary and secondary orality to understand communication.

. The Toronto School of Communication provided many early insights into how media become integrated into society, as well as their transformative nature.

. The telephone was adopted rapidly by users who recognized its value over previous forms of communication.

. The laws around cyberbullying in Canada vary by province and territory.

. Sherry Turkle argues that the Internet does not allow for identity exploration and experimentation with variations of the self.

. The argument could be made that the meaning of the word "friendship" has changed as a result of social media like Facebook.

. Computer-mediated communication has facilitated the formation of new social ties at an increased rate, despite initial estimates that it would be used mainly to maintain existing offline ties.

. Breakup 2.0 is complex because it involves the initiator and non-initiator of the breakup.

. Gershon (2010) argues that new media are either intrinsically formal or informal, but social groups can influence whether a particular medium is seen as appropriate or not by establishing norms surrounding its use.

. In online discourse, users have created different categories of online conflicts, namely "drama" and its more aggressive cousin "cyber-bullying".

. In research conducted by Quirk and Campbell, they found that there is only one type of cyber bystander.

. Virtual mourning is the use of Web-based media to mourn, commemorate, or provide support following the death of a family member, friend, or colleague.

. In a study of parents and child safety, the finding was that the most common strategy reported by parents was "to talk to my child about what they do online".

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