Exam 1 Flashcards
Media
Industries that create and distribute songs, novels, newspapers, movies, internet, TV shows, magazines, and other products to larger numbers of people
oral media
info passed along by teachers, storytellers, and poets
written media
info painstakingly written by monks, philosophers, and stenographers
print media
the wide dissemination of many copies of particular manuscripts
electronic media
info transmitted via telegraph or other rmachines
digital media
any info/sound or symbol transmitted by a digital device
media convergence
1) the technological merging of content in different mass media
2) has another business meaning
high culture
good taste, and higher education
low culture
commercial junk and for the masses
social scientific research
attempts to understand, explain, and predict the impact of mass media on individuals and society
cultural studies
explore how people make meaning, understand reality, articulate values, and interpret their experiences through use of cultural symbols in media
form
refers to the work’s style, techniques and media used, and how the elements of design are implemented.
content
refers to a work’s essence, or what is being depicted.
detribalization
to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.
retribalization
the act of forming or returning to a tribal group or division.
technological determinism
how existing technology changes and shapes humans
social construction of technology
how we shape existing technology
utopian perspective
impossibly ideal conditions especially of social organization.
dystopian perspective
often feels trapped and is struggling to escape.
moral panic
the process of arousing social concern
domestication
the processes by which innovations, especially new technology is ‘tamed’ or appropriated by its users.
social shaping
is the concept that there are choices’ (though not necessarily conscious choices) inherent in both the design of individual artifacts and systems, and in the direction or trajectory of innovation programs.”
codex
sheets of parchment paper sewn together alone one edge then bound with thin pieces of wood and covered in leather
printing press
invented by Johannes Gutenberg in germany. machine that helped print books faster
illuminated manuscripts
decorative colorful illustrations on each page and were often made for churches or wealthy clients
dime novels
paperback books sold for 5 or 10 cents each
pulp fiction
a reference to cheap machine made pulp paper dime novels
rivalry
A new medium competes w/ an old medium for attention, audiences have finite amounts of time for consuming media. Ex: Kids watching less TV, more video games.
convergence
2 (or more) old media come together to form a new media form. Ex: comic books/graphic novels.
complimentary
Old medium/new medium enter into a synergistic relationship where each feeds off of the other. Ex: Harry Potter books & films
partisan
biased news. sponsored by politicians, loves one group and praises them
objective
news that presents the facts without bias
penny papers
cheap, not serious, low culture papers, made int he thousands
yellow journalism
human interest stories, crime news, large headlines, was to digest
citizen journalism
activists and what not can turn into opinions and favorites
echo chambers
big networks that consciously cater to a certain group
digital revenue
money made by online services
specialization
the idea that magazines are made “special” to different groups of peoples
muckraking
when journalists dig deep to expose or uncover something or someone
photojournalism
use of photography to argue editorial content
polarization
refers to cases in which an individual’s stance on a given issue, policy, or person is more likely to be strictly defined by their identification with a particular political party
infinite demand
an insistent and peremptory request indefinitely
universality
the quality of involving or being shared by all people or things in the world or in a particular group
