MCQ Bank
Which one of the following sociologists firstly used the term technological determinism?
- A) C Wright Mill
- B) Karl Marx
- C) Ralf Dahrendorf
- D) Thorstein Veblen
Who coined the term media logic?
- A) Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer
- B) Karl Marx & Herbert Marcuse
- C) David Altheide & Robert Snow
- D) Walter Benjamin & Jurgan Habermas
How media structures promote gender equality in the workplace?
- A) All of the given options
- B) Through regular gender audit of media organizations
- C) To organize awareness-raising on gender equality
- D) A clear way to receive suggestions on gender equality
Which type of opportunity policies developed within media houses in a cooperative manner and with endorsement of staff?
- A) Equal
- B) Adequate
- C) Unequal
- D) Proportionate
Which one the following is implications of data colonialism EXCEPT:
- A) Social
- B) Economic
- C) Familial
- D) Political
How many social media users in Pakistan increased between 2020 and 2021?
- A) 5 Million
- B) 9 Million
- C) 6 Million
- D) 8 Million
Who defined mediatization as "a historical, ongoing, long-term process in which more and more media emerge and are institutionalized”?
- A) Andreas Hepp
- B) Jean Baudrillard
- C) John Thompson
- D) Friedrich Krotz
Who coined the term culture industry?
- A) Karl Marx
- B) Both Adorno & Horkheimer
- C) Max Horkheimer
- D) Theodor Adorno
Global Media Monitoring Project is a _______study on the gender in the world’s media.
- A) Panel
- B) Cross sectional
- C) Cohort
- D) Longitudinal
WWW stand for:
- A) World Wide Windows
- B) World Wide Web
- C) World Wide Wrestling
- D) World Without Work
Which one of the following webs is considered participative social web?
- A) Web 3
- B) Web 2
- C) Web 1
- D) Web 4
CoP stands for______________ in the context of social learning theory.
- A) Community operational practice
- B) Concept of programming
- C) Conclusive one practice
- D) Community of practice
All of the following are asynchronous mode of computer mediated communication EXCEPT:
- A) Chat rooms
- B) Video Conferencing
- C) E-mail
- D) IM
Which one of the social theorists formulates the concept of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft?
- A) Emile Durkheim
- B) Auguste Comte
- C) Ferdnis Tonnies
- D) Karl Marx
Key challenge in the success of community of practices, _____________ focuses on topics important to the business and community members?
- A) Management challenge
- B) Community challenge
- C) Personal challenge
- D) Technical challenge
Social learning theory has __________ components.
- A) Two
- B) Five
- C) Four
- D) Three
In which of the following element of virtual community members build a reputation based on the expressed opinions of others?
- A) Reputation
- B) Communication
- C) Expression
- D) Identity
In which of the following virtual communities, community members share a similar geographic location?
- A) Identity-based communities
- B) None of the given options
- C) Organizationally-based communities
- D) Physically based virtual communities
Which one of the following theorists describes that communities which are not tied to a particular place or time, but still serve social, cultural and mental reality ranging from general to special interests or activities?
- A) Rheingold
- B) Hagel and Armstrong
- C) Jones and Rafaeli
- D) Van Dijk
According to virtual community, CMC stands for:
- A) Connection Management Center
- B) Class Management Committee
- C) Computer Mediated Corporation
- D) Computer Mediated Communication