What Has Been the Effect of the Rapid Expansion of Internet

question 66

Multiple Choice

What has been the effect of the rapid expansion of Internet technology on the ability of presidential campaigns to manage the news?

• A) It has made managing the news somewhat easier.
• B) The effect is mostly neutral.
• C) It has made managing favorable news impossible and unfavorable news more difficult.
• D) It has made managing the news more difficult.
• E) It has had no effect on the ability of presidential campaigns to manage the news.

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Definitions:

Semiotics

The study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation, often applied in linguistic, cultural, and social contexts.

Pragmatics

The branch of linguistics concerned with the use of language in social contexts and the ways in which people produce and comprehend meanings through language.

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A type of art formulated by Kazimir Malevich to convey his belief that the supreme reality in the world is pure feeling, which attaches to no object and thus calls for new, nonobjective forms in art—shapes not related to objects in the visible world.

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