Exam 3 study guide Flashcards

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The erosion of traditional distinctions among media

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Convergence

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The process of dividing audience members into segments based on background and lifestyle in order to send them messages targeted to their specific characteristics

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Audience Fragmentation

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3
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The integration, for a fee, of specific branded products into media content.

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Product Placement

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4
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A derogatory names sometimes applied to public relations professionals.

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Flack

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5
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Fake grassroots organization

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Astroturf

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Event that has no real informational or issue meaning; its exists merely to attract media attention

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Pseudo-Event

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In PR, any group of people with a stake in an organization, issue, or idea.

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Public

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8
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PR in support of social issues and causes

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Cause Marketing

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9
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In public relations, directly interacting with elected officials or government regulators and agents

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Lobbying

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10
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In PR, outright lying to hide what really happened

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Spin

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Public relations practice of countering the public relations efforts aimed at clients by environmentalists

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Greenwashing

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Combining public relations, marketing, advertising, and promotion into a seamless communication campaign.

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Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC)

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13
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Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events

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News

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Who said this and what were they defining:
The business of practicing and producing and disseminating information about contemporary affairs of general public interest and importance. It is the business of a set of institutions that publicizes… information and commentary on contemporary affairs, normally presented as true and sincere, to a dispersed and anonymous audience so as to publicly include the audience in a discourse taken to be publicly important

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Schudson’s definition of journalism.

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15
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How do we decide what’s news?

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1) Financial Pressures (ratings/clicks)
2) Political Pressures
3) Format (images?)
4) Audience reception/participation (social media feedback/crowdsourcing)
5) Society (cultural norms)

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16
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What are the 8 news values?

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Impact- how many people does the story impact

Timeliness- recency of the event/information

Prominence- Involve someone prominent?

Proximiy- closeness of an issue to the audience (could be geographic, could be more about shared values)

The Bizarre- unusual stories that capture attention

Conflict

Currency- a trend or issue that eventual bubbles up to the surface

Human interest- softer news

17
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Where does news originate?

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Naturally-occuring events: fires, hurricanes

18
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State laws that protect journalists from being found in contempt of court for refusing to reveal a source or other confidential information.

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Shield Laws

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A person who writes for newspapers or magazines or prepares news to be broadcast on radio or television

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Journalist

20
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How do people find news?

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30% of people get their news on Facebook.

Referral Traffic

21
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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The First Amendment

22
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Basically means that the government cannot censor the speech prior to publication/utterance

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Prior Restraint

23
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What are some examples of prior restraint?

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Licensing

Injunctions that prohibit publication

Informal coercion

24
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What categories of speech are NOT protected by the first amendment?

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Libel (conditional)

Incitement to violence/true threats

Obscenity

Threats to national security

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Freedom from interference by other people (in this case, the government)
Negative Freedom
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The possession of the power and resources to fulfill one's potential
Positive Freedom
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When was the First Amendment ratified?
1791
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People or organizations seeking publicity, often stories suggested or pitched by PR practitioners
Created News
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Journalists take the initiative, develop stories from beat or investigative reporting
Enterprise reporting
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Take a broader topic and break it to a more specialized area
Beat reporting
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What is the standard news cycle?
Breaking News Story continues to develop Long-term/Continuous Coverage
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Is law neutral?
(In theory) law is fair and applied evenly BUT law is crafted by people who are not neutral and are not perfect
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What are the guarantees within the First Amendment?
We are protected from Congress to respect the free exercise of religion, speech, press, right to peaceably assemble and right to petition
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Was the First Amendment originally conceived to prevent prior restraint?
Yes
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Is all speech protected by the First Amendment?
No