(5) New Media, Participatory Popular Culture, Hate Watching, Will to Representation

Question 1

the news media exerts

Answer 1

a considerable influence over our perceptions of groups and lifestyles of which we have little first-hand experience.

Question 2

News media has the power to create and define

Answer 2

the boundaries of debates whilst also organising opinion and developing world views by providing structures of understanding into which isolated and unarticulated attitudes and beliefs may be fitted

Question 3

Hall says views the news not as independent journalism but as

Answer 3

an ideological practice - journalism is part of the state control apparatus
 just about conveying ideas, thoughts and values about subjects vs actual facts.

Question 4

When was the ‘our crime problem’ created?

Answer 4

50s-90s massive increase in crime, notion of normal ppl vs the criminals

Question 5

when did the crime drop occur?

Answer 5

after the 90s - no definitive academic answer yet as to why

Question 6

As a result of a perceived rise in violent crimes what occurred?

Question 7

Beccaria’s Just Deserts approach - crime should be

Answer 7

swift, certain, proportionate

Question 8

Penal populism

Answer 8

a media driven political process whereby politicians compete with each other to impose tougher prison sentences on offenders based on a perception that crime is out of control.

Question 9

How does penal populism result in moral crusades?

Answer 9

through the use of moral panics and folk devils by rule creators and moral crusaders

Question 10

What is an issue with penal populism

Answer 10

reflects the use of elite-interest groups to divert attention away from other major causes of crime (white collar/corporate crime etc) to serve the interests of the elite in maintaining control

Question 11

News power is the exertion of

Answer 11

considerable influence over perceptions of our groups and lifestyles of which we have little 1st hand experience

Question 12

What is the effect of news media power?

Answer 12

the organisation and development of world views by providing structures of understanding into which isolated and unarticulated attitudes and beliefs can be fitted

Question 13

news media can be viewed as what 3 types of practice?

Answer 13

1) professional (common sense journalism, news above all interests)
2) ideological (independent journalism an illusion - part of state’s controlled aparatus –> Chomsky’s propaganda model)
3) social (everyone is involved in practice)

Question 14

how does traditional news media get attention from readers?

Answer 14

as it’s 1 dimensional/monologue, use celebritification, sensationalism, graphics and emotion

Question 15

what are 2 features of new media?

Answer 15

multidimensional and interactional

Question 16

What does internet provide an opportunity for?

Answer 16

adversarialism - a new way to challenge authority, resulting in a distrust of institutions

-ve confrontational tone with a hyper-alterneness to negative

Question 17

3 aspects of trial by media

Answer 17

1) Criminality
2) Immorality
3) Incompetence

Question 18

Court of public opinion focuses on issues that

Answer 18

aren’t acknowledged by institutions as criminal but have some aspects of morality which are wrong –> extends what someone would actually be tried for in court

Question 19

What has new media created a desire for?

Answer 19

a will to representation - a desire to achieve representation and to communicate –> contests the theoretical distinction btw media and society (individuals now part of the news making process)

Question 20

What does a desire to be recognised through a will to representation result in with new media?

Answer 20

shock value –> controversy sells!! (Trump)

Question 21

Postmodern carnival of crime has a hyperfocus on

Answer 21

bad news and scandal - everything is a crisis etc