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Below are the scanned copy of Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) Question Paper with answer keys of Exam Name 'STATE MASS EDUCATION AND MEDIA OFFICER' And exam conducted in the year 2023. And Question paper code was '230/2023'. Medium of question paper was in Malayalam or English . Booklet Alphacode was 'A'. Answer keys are given at the bottom, but we suggest you to try answering the questions yourself and compare the key along wih to check your performance. Because we would like you to do and practice by yourself.
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Proxemics as a type of non-verbal communication is related to the use of :
(A) Personal and Physical space (B) Body signals
(C) Body touch ൯) Colour
The five essential elements of communication in Aristotle’s model of communication do not
include :
(A) Speaker (B) Speech
(C) Feedback (D) Occasion
The Newcomb’s ABX model was expanded with inclusion of an additional element C to
levelop the Westley and MacLean’s model of communication in 1957. The C denotes :
(A) Gatekeeper (B) Context
(C) Content (D) Culture
Which of the following is true about a mass media institution?
) Main activity is production and distribution of symbolic content
(11) Professional and bureaucratization in form
(III) Operate in the private sphere
7) Participations as sender or receiver is voluntary
(A) (0), (10) ೩೧6 (11) ൯ 0), (1) ೩೧4 (1)
൭ 00, CID and (IV) (D) 0), (0), (111) ೩೧4 (1)
In which type of communication models feedback would be missing :
(A) Action/Transmission models ൯) Interaction models
(C) Transactional models (D) Convergence models
‘Mass communication comprise the institutions and techniques by which specialized groups
employ technical devices to disseminate symbolic content to large, heterogeneous and widely
dispersed audiences’ was said by :
(^) Wilbur Schramm (B) Janowitz
(C) Max Weber (D) George Gerbner
Who commented ‘there are no masses, only ways to seeing people as masses’:
(A) Herbert Blumer (B) Raymond Williams
(C) Wilbur Schramm (D) Robert Park
The mass Communication process is not characterized by :
(A) Large-scale distribution ൯) One-directional flow
(C) Symmetrical relation (D) Impersonal and anonymous
Who was the first to define mass as a new type of social formation, by contrasting it with
group, crowd, and public :
(A) Raymond Williams (B) Denis McQuail
(C) Herbert Blumer (D) Elliot Friedson
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