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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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Media

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Industries that create and distribute songs, novels, newspapers, movies, internet, TV shows, magazines, and other products to larger numbers of people

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oral media

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info passed along by teachers, storytellers, and poets

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written media

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info painstakingly written by monks, philosophers, and stenographers

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print media

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the wide dissemination of many copies of particular manuscripts

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electronic media

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info transmitted via telegraph or other rmachines

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digital media

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any info/sound or symbol transmitted by a digital device

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7
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media convergence

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1) the technological merging of content in different mass media
2) has another business meaning

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8
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high culture

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good taste, and higher education

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low culture

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commercial junk and for the masses

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social scientific research

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attempts to understand, explain, and predict the impact of mass media on individuals and society

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cultural studies

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explore how people make meaning, understand reality, articulate values, and interpret their experiences through use of cultural symbols in media

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form

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refers to the work’s style, techniques and media used, and how the elements of design are implemented.

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content

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refers to a work’s essence, or what is being depicted.

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detribalization

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to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.

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retribalization

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the act of forming or returning to a tribal group or division.

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16
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technological determinism

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how existing technology changes and shapes humans

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social construction of technology

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how we shape existing technology

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utopian perspective

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impossibly ideal conditions especially of social organization.

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dystopian perspective

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often feels trapped and is struggling to escape.

20
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moral panic

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the process of arousing social concern

21
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domestication

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the processes by which innovations, especially new technology is ‘tamed’ or appropriated by its users.

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social shaping

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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.”

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codex

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sheets of parchment paper sewn together alone one edge then bound with thin pieces of wood and covered in leather

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printing press

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invented by Johannes Gutenberg in germany. machine that helped print books faster

25
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illuminated manuscripts

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decorative colorful illustrations on each page and were often made for churches or wealthy clients

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dime novels

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paperback books sold for 5 or 10 cents each

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pulp fiction

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a reference to cheap machine made pulp paper dime novels

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rivalry

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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.

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convergence

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2 (or more) old media come together to form a new media form. Ex: comic books/graphic novels.

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complimentary

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Old medium/new medium enter into a synergistic relationship where each feeds off of the other. Ex: Harry Potter books & films

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partisan

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biased news. sponsored by politicians, loves one group and praises them

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objective

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news that presents the facts without bias

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penny papers

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cheap, not serious, low culture papers, made int he thousands

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yellow journalism

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human interest stories, crime news, large headlines, was to digest

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citizen journalism

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activists and what not can turn into opinions and favorites

36
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echo chambers

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big networks that consciously cater to a certain group

37
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digital revenue

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money made by online services

38
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specialization

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the idea that magazines are made “special” to different groups of peoples

39
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muckraking

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when journalists dig deep to expose or uncover something or someone

40
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photojournalism

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use of photography to argue editorial content

41
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polarization

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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

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infinite demand

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an insistent and peremptory request indefinitely

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universality

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the quality of involving or being shared by all people or things in the world or in a particular group

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