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Ch. 4 - The Role of the Media Flashcards

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What is the media?

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Any form of communication that targets a mass audience in print or electronic formats.

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What does the media define and shape?

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Boundaries between groups, social problems, and public debates.

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What are stigmatized others?

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People represented by the media as some kind of threat to decent people’s way of life.

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What are some examples of stigmatized others?

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Street youth, single parents, the mental ill, etc.

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What are absolute others?

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Those who are regarded as inherently and absolutely evil.

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What are some examples of absolute others?

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Psychopaths, terrorists, pedophiles, etc.

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What is the nature of stigmatized and absolute others?

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It is dynamic, others may find themselves along a continuum at different points in time.

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What are the two approaches to media study/analysis?

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Administrative and critical.

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What does the administrative approach to media study/analysis explore?

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The effects of media on thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Focusing in on cause and effect.

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What is the ultimate goal of the administrative approach?

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To learn how the effects of the media happen so that we can intervene.

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What does the critical approach focus on?

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How the media constructs events, issues, and identities.

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What does administrative research focus on?

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Advertising and violence.

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What do advertisers try to do?

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Get us to feel connected with their product.

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What distinction is drawn in advertising?

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Cognitively based ads and affectively based ads.

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What are cognitively based ads working on?

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Our thoughts about a product.

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What are affectively based ads working on?

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Our emotions over a product.

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What are the three types of product placement?

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Active, passive, and verbally referenced.

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What is passive product placement?

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A product just sitting in the background.

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What is active product placement?

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A character in the show actually using the product.

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What is the most researched topic in media studies?

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Violence.

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What question still remains in the area of media violence research?

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Whether exposure desensitizes people to violence or whether it stimulates feelings of vulnerability prompting violence as a wall of protection.

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What does framing refer to?

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The overall way that an issue is depicted in the media.

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What are the three times of frames?

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Conflict, human interest, and economic consequences.

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What are conflict frames?

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News stories that focus on the conflict between different groups.

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What are human interest frames?

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Stories that people would take interest in. E.g., Dog went to get help when owner collapsed, young girl raised money to build a hospital in Africa, etc.

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What are economic consequence frames?

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Focuses on the various costs and benefits of something. E.g., Cost of war on terror, benefits of building a school in a particular neighbourhood

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What are the 5 frames of race/ethnicity?

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Invisible, stereotypes, social problems, adornments, and white-washed.

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What is the invisibility frame?

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Certain racial minorities are not represented in media, so we end up with a skewed perception of who is and is not part of society.

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What is the stereotype frame?

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When minorities are included in media, they are presented in stereotypical ways.

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What is the social problem frame?

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Racial and ethnic minorities are framed as some kind of threat or social problem; a drain on society.

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What is the adornments frame?

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How different minority groups are presented as the “exotic other;” the reality in which these groups live is completely ignored.

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What is the white-washed frame?

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Minorities are presented as having experiences, perspectives, and identities very much like those of the majority.

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What are the four femininity frames?

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Feminine touch, ritualization of subordination, licensed withdrawal, and infantilization.

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What is the feminine touch frame?

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Meant to imply delicacy or sexuality.

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What is the ritualization of subordination frame?

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Ritualizing women being submissive to men or literally being placed below them.

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What is the license withdrawal frame?

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Making it seem as though women don’t have a thought in their head, featuring vacuous, vacant stares.

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What is the infantilization frame?

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Where adult women are presented as little girls or young girls are made to look older and sexualized.

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What are the implications of racial/minority frames?

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They may be erased from public consciousness, have their voices left unheard, media representations may become integrated into their identities, and it may have an impact on policy.

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What are the four masculinity frames?

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Villain, aggressor, pervert, and philanderer.

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What is there a trend towards in media ownership?

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Convergence, conglomeration, and concentration.

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What are the 4 points in the media-deviance nexus?

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Media as a cause of deviance, media constructs deviance and normality, media as a tool for deviance, and media as a site of the deviance dance.

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Where is media as a cause of deviance reflected?

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Studies of advertising and media violence.

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Where is media constructing deviance and normality reflected?

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Studies of media framing.

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Where is media as a tool for deviance reflected?

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Cyber deviance.

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Where is media as a site of the deviance dance reflected?

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Various points of view and debates within the media.

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What does cybercrime involve?

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Credit card fraud, identity theft, and hacking.

47
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What are 5 elements of the hacker subculture?

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Technology, knowledge, commitment, categorization, and law.

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What is involved in the technology element of hacker subculture?

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A passion and interest in how technology works that typically develops at a young age.

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What is involved in the knowledge element of hacker subculture?

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The quest for knowledge is important in hacking; refer to themselves on a basis of knowledge.

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What is involved in the commitment element of hacker subculture?

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Commitment to persist despite the obstacles/failures/challenges they will encounter.

51
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What is digital piracy?

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The illegal downloading of music, software, and video.

52
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How does the internet facilitate digital piracy?

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Anonymity, speed of transmission, and a shift in the mindset considering “ownership.”

53
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What are the three theoretical explanations about digital piracy?

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Differential association (learning techniques and motives), techniques of neutralization, and interpretive theories (identify formation and labelling).

54
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What is an example of differential association in digital piracy?

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Learning how to use a VPN.

55
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What are two examples of techniques of neutralization for digital piracy?

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Denial of injury: these companies have enough money already, it’s no big deal to download one song. Appeal to higher loyalties: financial resources should be an impediment to having access to these things.

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What is cyberbullying?

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Refers to the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group that is intended to harm others.

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What are three issues with cyberbullying?

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Anonymity, visibility, and permanence.

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What are three examples of cyberbullying?

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Spreading rumors, sharing private photos, harassing/threatening people online.

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What is the visibility issue of cyberbullying?

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Anyone can see what is online.

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What is the primary function of mass media?

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To deliver an audience to advertisers.

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What are the 5 Ss of media?

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Sensationalize, simplify, standardize, sell, and symbolize.

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Where does knowledge about deviance and crime come from?

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Media exposure.

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What does the media disproportionately focus on?

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Violence; and there is a lack of attention to underlying causes or relevant social issues.

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What type of process is media consumption?

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An active process.

65
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What does it mean for media consumption to be an active process?

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The meanings and interpretations people make of their media exposure are mediated by their own background experiences.

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What are three consequences of biased media exposure?

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Moral panics, the emergence of a risk society, and the demand for policy/legislative change.

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What is a moral panic?

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Believing that a relatively small problem is critically out of control.

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How do news media outlets frame deviance and crime?

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As a battle of good vs. evil.

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What is the proposed purpose of framing deviance as a good vs. evil?

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It establishes a moral order and reaffirms power relations.

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What is the proposed purpose of news stories individualizing and pathologizing deviance and crime?

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To promote social cohesion.

71
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What do news stories perpetuating a “crime does not pay” myth promote?

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Social control.

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