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As I'm sure I've mentioned before, I'm taking RTF 398T, "Supervised Teaching in Radio-TV-Film," so I can instruct my own class next semester. The primary project for the semester is creating a "dream course," which in my case is "Making Alternative Media," which will deal with making 'zines, blogs, and guerilla video and their subsequent distribution. Today we turned in test questions for the class. I've decided to post the multiple choice questions I created to see how well readers know alternative media history and distribution.

  1. What political/artistic movement believed society had devolved into a crass capitalist spectacle?
    1. Dadaism
    2. Situationism
    3. Anarchism
    4. Minimalism
  1. Public Access TV gained momentum with which historical development?
    1. The introduction of inexpensive digital video equipment
    2. FCC relaxation of ownership rules
    3. The creation of exclusive cable TV contracts with municipalities
    4. The uprising of May 1968
  1. Which best describes the practice of mimicking a corporate logo for political or cultural purposes?
    1. Detournement
    2. Copyright infringement
    3. Parody
    4. Adbusting
  1. Which of these technologies would you use to enable a user to watch part of a video as it downloads?
    1. Non-Linear Editing
    2. Compression
    3. Port Scanning
    4. Streaming
  1. What word is often used to describe social formations that emerge from the bottom up with no central authority?
    1. Arboreal
    2. Bulbous
    3. Rhizomatic
    4. Pastoral
  1. A leaderless organization that is still dominated by a few vocal members suffers from which social phenomenon?
    1. The Tyranny of the Majority
    2. The Tyranny of Structurelessness
    3. The Tyranny of Distance
    4. The Tyranny of Poststructuralism

I realize some of these are tricky and some are a little silly, but click "Yeah... And it dont stop" for the correct answers.

  1. What political/artistic movement believed society had devolved into a crass capitalist spectacle?
    1. Dadaism
    2. Situationism
      3.
    3. Anarchism
    4. Minimalism
  1. Public Access TV gained momentum with which historical development?
    1. The introduction of inexpensive digital video equipment
    2. FCC relaxation of ownership rules
    3. The creation of exclusive cable TV contracts with municipalities
      4.
    4. The uprising of May 1968
  1. Which best describes the practice of mimicking a corporate logo for political or cultural purposes?
    1. Detournement
      2.
    2. Copyright infringement
    3. Parody
    4. Adbusting
  1. Which of these technologies would you use to enable a user to watch part of a video as it downloads?
    1. Non-Linear Editing
    2. Compression
    3. Port Scanning
    4. Streaming
      5.
  1. What word is often used to describe social formations that emerge from the bottom up with no central authority?
    1. Arboreal
    2. Bulbous
    3. Rhizomatic
      4.
    4. Pastoral
  1. A leaderless organization that is still dominated by a few vocal members suffers from which social phenomenon?
    1. The Tyranny of the Majority
    2. The Tyranny of Structurelessness
      3.
    3. The Tyranny of Distance
    4. The Tyranny of Poststructuralism

Posted by McChris at October 29, 2004 03:39 PM
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I got 2 out of 6 right. Eh.

Posted by: elizabeth at October 30, 2004 12:35 AM

I got all but #3, which seemed tricky to me in that I'd say answers a, c and d were all roughly right. Can you elaborate?

And I don't think I'd have had a prayer of getting #5 right if you hadn't happened to explain the Rhizome Collective's name to me once.

I like this exercise. I may think about composing a quiz based on my experience at the iSchool in a semester or so. Who knows, perhaps you've spawned the grad-school meme from hell.

Posted by: Prentiss Riddle at October 31, 2004 01:21 PM
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