PSCI 2305 Practice Test Questions with Correct Answers
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PSCI 2305 Practice Test Questions with Correct Answers
Benefits of online news - Answer--Convenience, speed of getting info, depth of info, diversity of viewpoints
-Mainstream and non mainstream
Concerns of online media - Answer--loss of investigative power
- more variation in the quality o...
PSCI 2305 Practice Test Questions
with Correct Answers
Benefits of online news - Answer--Convenience, speed of getting info, depth of info,
diversity of viewpoints
-Mainstream and non mainstream
Concerns of online media - Answer--loss of investigative power
- more variation in the quality of news,
-potential effects on knowledge and
-tolerance, social media as a propaganda
Agenda setting - Answer--Involves identifying issues politicians will notice
-Brings public attention to particular issues
-Groups that want their issues addressed try to get media attention to set news agenda
-Plays critical role in whether elected officials act on policy issue
Selection bias (news) - Answer--Tendency to focus news coverage on only one aspect
of an event or issue, avoiding coverage of other aspects
-Media are businesses: attract largest audiences possible
-provide less info about important political issues than sensational ones
Framing - Answer--influences how events are interpreted
-Power of the media to influence how people interpret events and issues
-Helps people understand events using carefully chosen words and pics
Priming - Answer--Process of preparing the public to bring specific criteria to mind when
evaluating politicians or issue
-Calls attention to some matters while ignoring others
-Shapes how the public evaluates leaders
adversial journalism - Answer--a form of reporting in which media adopt a skeptical or
hostile posture toward the govt and public officials
-Nineteenth century : newspapers were subordinate to political parties
>Their financial survival was controlled by party leaders
-Twentieth century: newspaper were financially independent
regulation of media - Answer--Federal govt does not regulate most media
-Broadcast tv and radio stations need Federal Communications commission licenses to
operate which prohibits obscenity, indecency, and profanity
, equal time rule - Answer-broadcasters must provide candidates with equal opportunities
to communicate their messages to the public
right of rebuttal - Answer-individuals must have opportunity to respond to personal
attacks made on radio and tv ( defend yourself)
fairness doctrine - Answer-broadcast airing programs on controversial views required to
provide time for opposing views
traditional political participation - Answer--Various activities designed to influence
government
-Voting, volunteering on a campaign, working for a political organization, contacting
public officials, signing a petition
protest - Answer-participation that involves assembling crowds to confront a govt or
other official org
political participation through voting - Answer-single most important political act
-most common way individuals interact with politics
-gives ordinary citizens an equal voice
-selects officials who make the laws
suffrage - Answer--the right to vote
-past restrictions included poll taxes, literacy tests, property owners, immigrants, african
americans
-expanding vote: 15th(blacks), 19th(women), 24th(poll tax), 26th amendments(age),
voting rights act of 1965
voter turnout - Answer--percentage of eligible individuals who actually vote
-since the 1960s, turnout has been about 60 percent in presidential elections
digital political participation - Answer-activities that influence politics using the internet,
including visiting a candidates website, organizing events online, signing an online
petition
internet - Answer--access to digital participations
-Gives citizens greater access to political information than ever before; greater potential
for community building
digital platforms - Answer-use for participation in politics
-Allow for discussion of issues and mobilization of supporters via Facebook, Twitter, etc.
-Not location dependent
-Redefines "community"
benefits of online participation - Answer-Encourages information gathering and
interaction among users and elected officials
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