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Understanding Blogging and Media Influence

This quiz tests knowledge about blogging, media influence, and notable figures in the digital landscape, challenging participants to identify key concepts and events within the blogging community and its intersection with traditional journalism.

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1 Some critics worry that bloggers respect neither ________ nor the role of the mass media in presenting society with credible news.

2 Only blogger ________ made the New York Times Bestseller List.

3 To wit: (television journalist) Dan Rather presented documents (on the CBS show ________) that conflicted with accepted accounts of President Bush's military service record.

4 Bruce Ableson launched ________ in October 1998, which soon grew to thousands of online diaries.

5 In India, blogger Gaurav Sabnis resigned from ________ after his posts exposing the false claims of a management school, IIPM, led to management of IIPM threatening to burn their IBM laptops as a sign of protest against him.

6 For the first time in the history of modern journalism, the financial and political goals of ________ are being analyzed in depth.

7 (See ________ and Wesley Clark.) Even politicians not actively campaigning, such as the UK's Labour Party's MP Tom Watson, began to blog to bond with constituents.

8 Lott's critics saw these comments as a tacit approval of ________, a policy advocated by Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign.

9 A blog (a contraction of the term "web log") is a type of ________, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

10 (See Daniel Drezner, ________ or Brad Setser.)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • after realizing the blogosphere was similar to a stock market, Seyed Razavi created BlogShares to allow people to buy shares of blogs with virtual currency.
  • during the inauguration of Barack Obama, Macon Phillips, the White House Director of New Media, posted the first official Obama Administration blog entry from Whitehouse.gov.
  • the pseudonymous author of the defunct left-wing muckraker blog Media Whores Online has not yet been identified.
  • WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to support wildlife protection in Africa via the use of weblogs.
  • Owen Thomas, managing editor of New York City-based gossip and news blog Valleywag, writes most of the website's articles.
  • Wee Siew Kim, a Singaporean MP, had to apologise after scandal broke out involving an elitist blog entry made by his daughter.
  • Jim Zumbo was forced out of a 30-year career at Outdoor Life magazine, had his television show pulled from the air, and was dropped from sponsorship by companies including Remington and Cabelas due to a single blog post.
  • developmental biologist PZ Myers, who writes about evolution, cephalopods, politics, and atheism, is the top-ranked science blogger according to the journal Nature.
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