S1 Exam Review

In what year was the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published?

• 1940

• 1980

• 1964

• 1984

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Who wrote the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man?

• Nicholas Carr.

• Marshall McLuhan.

• Merrion Crace.

• Walter Winchell.

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Which media mogul at RCA and NBC dismissed criticism of the mass media on which his career was built in the year 1955?

• Les Moonves.

• David Sarnoff.

• Walter Winchell.

• Walter White.

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Carr writes that the computer is our servant, but it is simultaneously which of the following?

• Our savior.

• Our master.

• Our friend.

• Our confidant.

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What is the name of the computer from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey?

• Dave.

• Winifred.

• Wemberly.

• HAL.

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Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?

• Help people learn how to grow gardens.
  
  

• Shape the business models of technology.
  
  

• Shape the process of thought.
  
  

• Help people learn to read more quickly.

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Which former Rhodes Scholar and former student body president at Florida State University told Carr he does not read books any longer?

• James Murphy.

• John Sonyar.

• Fred Armisen.

• Joe O'Shea.

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In which year was Carr born?

• 1990

• 1946

• 1959

• 1936

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In what year was the HAL 9000 computer made operational, according to Carr in Chapter One?

• 2000

• 2005

• 1992

• 1999

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When was the Apple Computer company incorporated?

• 1990

• 1977

• 1984

• 2000