IGNOU Ph.D/M.Phil Journalism & Mass Communication Entrance Exam 2019 Question Paper

University : IGNOU
Exam : Entrance Examination
Degree : Ph.D./M.Phil.
Subject Code/Name : Journalism And Mass Communication
Year : 2019
Document Type : Question Paper
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IGNOU Ph.D./M.Phil. Journalism And Mass Communication Entrance Examination 2019 Question Paper.

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1. For calculating rank order correlation, which data type is most suitable ?
(1) Nominal
(2) Ordinal
(3) Interval
(4) Ratio

2. ‘R’ is a :
(1) Survey Collection Tool
(2) Data Analysis Software
(3) Big Data Crawler
(4) Citation Manager

3. ‘Digital Divide’ is in context of :‘
(1) Information haves and information have-nots
(2) Access to Computers
(3) Access to the Internet
(4) All the above

4. Data derived from reliable measurement or observation is known as :
(1) Experimental Data
(2) Empirical Data
(3) Ethnographic Data
(4) Electronic Data

5. Arrange the units of computer memory in ascending order.
(a) Terabyte
(b) Kilobyte
(c) Gigabyte
(d) Megabyte

(1) (a), (c), (d), (b) (2) (a), (d), (b), (c) (3) (b), (d), (c), (a) (4) (b), (c), (d), (a)

6. Sustainable Development Goal number 4 deals with :
(1) Poverty
(2) Gender
(3) Education
(4) Equality

7. Refers to the use of digital tools to achieve Social and Political change.
(1) Media Activism
(2) Online Activism
(3) Viral Movement
(4) Digital Trolls

8. Gaining knowledge about the way media institutions work and how they produce
content is known as :
(1) Journalism Training
(2) Mass Communication Education
(3) Media and Information Literacy (4) Communication Training

9. ‘Oligopoly’ in media industry refers to :
(1) Industry monopolised by large number of media Companies
(2) Industry monopolised by small number of media Companies
(3) Industry monopolised by medium number of media Companies
(4) None of the above

10. What is the purpose of pilot study in a research ?
(1) To gauge suitability of conducting full study
(2) To find respondents for full study
(3) To finalise methodology for full study
(4) To finalise sampling for full study

11. Identify the theory whose core idea is that ‘technology shapes the cause of human evolution.
1. Technology Controlled Theory
2. Technological Determinism Theory
3. Technology Dissonance Theory
4. Technological Resistivity Theory

12. In which communication setting, transactional analysis is most suitable ?
(1)Intra-personal communication
(2) Inter-personal communication
(3)Group communication
(4) Mass communication

13. USENET belongs to the period of :
(1) Pre Computer Network
(3) Client Network
(2) Pre WWW Network
(4) Internet

14. ‘Framing’ refers to the process by which the :
(1) Media places an information into frame
(2) Media places news story into frame
(3) Media places event into frame
(4) All the above

15. Non-parametric tests measure variables at :
(1) Ratio level
(2) Interval level
(3) Ordinal level
(4) Non-conditional level

16. Find ‘mean’ for the following dataset.
19, 24, 28, 29, 30, 34, 38, 42, 49, 51.51, 61, 64
(1) 35 (2) 40 (3) 45 (4) 50

17. Find ‘median for the following dataset.
19, 24, 28, 29, 30, 34, 38, 42, 49, 51, 51, 61, 64
(1) 35 (2) 36 (3) 37 (4) 38

18. Find ‘mode’ for the following dataset.
19, 24, 28, 29, 30, 34, 38, 42, 49, 51, 51, 61, 64
(1) 51 (2) 49 (3) 42 (4) 38

19. Find ‘variance’ for the following dataset.
19, 24, 28, 29, 30, 34, 38, 42, 49, 51, 51, 61, 64
(1) 201.8 (2) 202.8 (3) 203.8 (4) 204.8

20. Find ‘Standard deviation for the following dataset.
19, 24, 28, 29, 30, 34, 38, 42, 49, 51, 51, 61, 64
(1) 14.28 (2) 15.28 (3) 16.28

21. Who proposed ‘ABX Model of Communication ?
(1) Sven Windahl (2) James Dearing
(3) Maxwell McCombs (4) Theodore Newcomb

22. Term ‘Digital Natives’ refers to people who have :
(1) Inhabited the terrain of the internet from childhood
(2) Inhabited the terrain of the internet from adulthood
(3) Access to the internet occasionally
(4) Access to the internet always

23. ‘Creative Common (CC) gives license of :
(1) Complete freedom for share, use and build
(2) Complete freedom for share, use and build with attribution
(3) Complete freedom for share, use and built for non-commercial
(4) Complete freedom for share, use, build only under share alike

24. In ‘Information Society’, the information has became the central and most significant :
(1) Resource
(2) Raw material
(3) Commodity
(4) Natural source

25. A hypothesis that suggests that, changes in one variable cause changes in another, is referred to :
(1) Relational hypothesis
(2) Causal hypothesis
(3) Null hypothesis
(4) Associative hypothesis

26. Identify the “Open Source Software” from the following.
(a) Open office (b) Microsoft office
(c) Linux OS (d) MacOS
(1) (a) and (c) (2) (a), (c) and (d) (3) (b) and (c) (4) (b) and (d)

27. Who introduced ‘noise’ in a communication model?
(1) Shannon and Weaver (2) Denis McQuail
(3) Wilber Schramm (4) Harold Lasswell

28. Through ‘data triangulation method’, a researcher can enhance his/her study’s :
(1) Popularity (2) Validity (3) Accessibility (4) Readability

29. A construct is a combination of :
(1) Variables (2) Hypotheses (3) Control factors (4) Concepts

30. Pre-conceived beliefs about the characteristics of a group are referred as :
(1) Prejudice (2) Stereotype
(3) Racism (4) Hegemony

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