Study Guide Exam 3

Newspapers - ownership, 3 sources of revenue, defining features, Penny Press, Yellow Journalism, the 3 departments, feedback, Hearst, Pulitzer, Ben Franklin's impact, who is John Peter Zenger, impact of the telegraph.

Magazines - feedback, magazines between WWI and WWII, horizontal and vertical magazines, types of circulation, problems magazines are facing, muckracking.

Books - printing press, publishers, distribution, Guttenberg (who was he, where and when?), paperback boom, pixels versus print, early 20th century and publishing commercialization, feedback, eBooks, printing on demand

Radio - payola, AM and FM, radio in the 1920's and 1930's and after, competition to radio and its effects, Radio Act of 1927, Communications act of 1934, voice tracking, consolidation, top five radio group owners, "drive time," feedback

Sound recordings - positive and negative impact on the revenue of sound recordings through the years, DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), rock and roll, why revenue has dropped, feedback, DRM

Television - names of the two men involved with the invention, revenue of cable vs. broadcast, the effect TV had on other media, how TV makes money, Nielsen ratings, TV news staff vs. newspaper

Film - the Hays code (what it was, when it ended, what replaced it?), the MPAA, the Edison lab, the Black Maria, William K. Dickson, sound on film, the star system, audience then vs. audiences now, impact of television, when vertical control was stopped and why, budgets of modern feature films, digital distribution, U.S. box office revenue, nickelodeons

Internet - WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee, social, cultural, and academic implications of the Internet, how did the Internet start out? what was it called when it first started? economics of the Internet. what different parts make up the Internet? e-commerce. Web 2.0. Analog vs digital. Demographics of who is on the Internet. ENIAC and ABC computers. What is ICANN? Five things needed (computerization, digitization, miniaturization, telecommunications, data compression). Social networking. Privacy aspects.

Video Games - based on lecture - history, studies, demographics... the Odyssey, Spacewar!, impact of Atari, failure of E.T., NES, Pong.. video games and violence: is it cause and effect? What do the studies say? Video game crash of 1983.

4 possible essay questions:

1. Describe the significance of the Penny Press and the characteristics of newspapers before and after the development of the Penny Press, including distribution, content, and news collection.

2. Describe the evolution (and reasons behind) radio going from network-oriented programming to local programming. Describe characteristics of radio before and after the shift from network to local.

3. Please compare the impact of TV on film in the 1950s to 1970s to YouTube and the Internet's impact on TV now. What are the similarities and differences of this comparison?

4. What hurdles to record companies, book publishers, and film studios now face because of the Internet and what can they do to still make a profit and stay competitive?