Critical Media Studies

Question 1

Everything is learned in two ways.

Answer 1

Somatically - through direct sensory perception of environment. (small percentage)
Symbolically

Question 2

indirect channels, second hand information.

Answer 2

medium

Question 3

about the social and cultural consequences of the revolutionary
capability.

Answer 3

Critical Media Studies

Question 4

Media split into 4 sub-categories.

Answer 4

1) print media
2) motion picture
3) broadcast media
4) news media

Question 5

Describes the historical epoch that began to emerge in 1960s shift of
economic mode of production, goods-based manufacturing to information-based services.

Answer 5

Postmodernity

Question 6

5 key trends

Answer 6

1) convergence 2) mobility 3) fragmentation 4) globalization 5) simulation

CMFGS (CALL ME FOR GOODNESS’ SAKES)

Question 7

Tendency of formerly diverse media to share a common integrated
platform ex. Use of pixels to create less distortion and decay over long distance.

Answer 7

Convergence

Question 8

Portable media

Answer 8

Mobility

Question 9

Wide varieties of expansion in media

Answer 9

Fragmentation

Question 10

complex set of social political and economic processes where the
physical boundaries are collapsing.

Answer 10

Globalization

Question 11

real without origin or reality.

Answer 11

Simulation

Question 12

process by which persons both individually and collectively learn, adopt
and internalize the prevailing cultural beliefs values and norms of a society.

Answer 12

Socialization

Question 13

What we learn.

Answer 13

Split to content and form, Content refers to the informational component
of a message.

Question 14

How we learn

Answer 14

form describes the cognitive component of a message. As way message is
packaged and delivered

Question 15

umbrella term used to describe an array of theoretical perspectives
which through diverse are united by their sceptical attitude humanistic approach.

Answer 15

Critical Studies

*the four A’s (attitude, approach, assessment, action)

Question 16

way of understanding the pressures and practices that

contrain it.

Answer 16

Attitude: Skeptical

Question 17

emphasizes self-reflection, critical citizenship and

democratic principles.

Answer 17

Approach: humanistic

Question 18

Determining whose interests are served by the media and
how those interest contribute to domination exploitation and asymmetrical
relations of power.

Answer 18

Assessment: political

Question 19

operate on the premise that scholarship should be action
oriented and social responsibility to identify injustice but to confront and
challenge it.

Answer 19

Action: Social Activism

Question 20

explanatory and interpretive tool that simultaneously enables and limits
understanding

Answer 20

Theory