Culture & Media

Question 1

How many hours of media becomes problematic and affects sleep and mental health?

Answer 1

9+ hours

Question 2

What are the 5 main uses of media?

5pts

Answer 2

• Entertainment
• Identity formation
• Coping
• High sensation seeking (personality associated)
• Socialization (especially for socially anxious adolescents)

Question 3

What is the cultivation theory?

4pts

Answer 3

• “Mean world syndrome”
• The more people watch TV, the more they will internalize a skewed view of reality
• 1st order effects: general beliefs about the world; perception of social reality
• 2nd order effects: specific judgements or attitudes towards social reality

Question 4

What is the social learning theory?

Answer 4

• Adolescents are more likely to mimic behaviors they see

Question 5

Uses and gratifications approach?

3pts

What is a list of possible uses and gratifications used to understand how adolescents choose which media to attend to and what they get from their choices?

5pts

Answer 5

• People as active media consumers; “free will”
• People differ in what they are interested in consuming
• People consuming the same product will respond differently to it
• Diversion- used to relax, have fun, relieve boredom
• Cognition- the media communications information on everything
• Social utility
• Withdrawal- “put earphones in and press play”
• Personal identity

Question 6

What is J. Brown’s model (media practice model)?

3pts

Answer 6

• Identity motivates the selection of media products
• Engagement with the media content
• Incorporate this content into their identities

Question 7

The correlation between two things is due to correlation with a 3rd

Answer 7

spurious causation

Question 8

The process by which children and adolescents acquire the attitudes beliefs and psychological aspects of their culture.

Answer 8

Enculturation

Question 9

What is assimilation, separation, marginalization and Integration ?

4pts

Answer 9

• Assimilation: giving up their own culture and identifying with the majority culture
• Marginalization: rejecting both their own culture and the majority culture
• Separation: identifying only with their own culture and rejecting the majority culture
• Integration: retaining their identification with their own ethnocultural group while also identifying with the majority culture

Question 10

Says that people form mental representations, such as schemas or scripts, and use them to interpret situations.

Answer 10

Schematic information processing theory