FINAL

Question 1

Why does Tryon suggest a “dislike of politics”

Answer 1

1) Inauthentic, 2) Corruption & greed –> accountability, hope/redemption

Question 2

• Tryon’s “Political spectacle”

Answer 2

the role of politicians and the media to construct idealized images of democratic engagement and national identity

Actors: Politicians & Media (TV, Radio, streaming, etc)
• Goal: “idealized images” of the Political (engagement, identity, values, purpose, etc.)
• Events: “romanticized image”, idealize some of this; in movies they will live to see another day,

Question 3

What does Political TV help do:

Answer 3

• Inform → what is happening?
• Understand → what is my opinion?
• Act → what should I do?

Question 4

What is mediated citizenship?

Answer 4

describe our relationship to politics and our perceived ability to participate in political dialogue.
Helps us to understand politics
• 2102 Pew Research: watchers of Political satire more knowledgeable than watchers of Political news
• Encourages or discourages our political participation
• Women’s Marches in 2016 -onwards (i.e. videos online
• Suggests particular participation activities (a form)

Question 5

What is Amanda Lotz’s 3 era’s?

Answer 5

1. Network era: set the role of political news & what counted as political news
   • ABC, NBC, CBS, CTV, CBC, Global (same news)
   • 2. Multichannel transition: more TV stations, including 24 -hour, & diversifying political TV
   • CNN, CP24, CBC Newsworld, MSNBC
   • News channels from around the world
   • New formats of Political TV on different channels
   • 3. Post-network era: unstable broadcasters & fragmented audiences
   (i.e. SunTV, Alex Jones)

Question 6

What is an echo chamber?

Answer 6

viewers select news, reinforce our own values

Question 7

How have Agents: Media corporations expanded?

Answer 7

Vertical integration: buy TV production, stations, editors, training, etc.
Buy everything to product the product
• Horizontal integration: expand to other forms of media (i.e. expanding to radio)?

Question 8

Political Enterainment Agents: Hall’s ‘primary definers’

Answer 8

political and corporate leaders who can define the parameters of a topic and set the agenda for what topics are worthy of attention and how those topics should be covered

Question 9

What is intertextuality?

Answer 9

“all textual meanings depend upon meanings cultivated in or proposed by other texts” - Directly challenges meanings, Responds to themes or narratives in politics or Political TV shows

Question 10

Gray: critical intertextuality = political parody

Answer 10

talk back to authoritative’ Political TV, 
recontextualize’ or ‘pollute’ meanings, 
• Reject political authority 
• Disempower the powerful 
• Empower the powerless

Question 11

• Gray: critical intertextuality vs. ‘symbiosis’

Answer 11

• Economic complicity = big audiences = big $ (i.e. Jon Stewart, beyond other late-night hosts)
• Textual complicity = used by the very ones they are criticizing (could not have the daily show without the politician’s behaviour)

Question 12

How does William’s define political TV?

Answer 12

melodrama of dysfunctional systems.

Expose & engage questions of social and political justice

Question 13

What are Tryon’s two types of Melodramas?

Answer 13

(1) political process, (2) national security

Question 14

What is supportive intertextuality

Answer 14

refers to texts, which serve primarily to promote or support other texts, such as advertisements, trailers, interviews, and promotional

Question 15

four major components of melodrama.

Answer 15

1) use of suspense
2) moral legibility- question of who the viewer will conclude deserves to survive the storyline.
3) space of innocence- need to believe that some kind of moral good can be located and restored.
4) Cautions against reading in terms of excess

Question 16

What is Sheuer’s ‘sound-bite’ society?

Answer 16

political messaging has become increasingly simplified, with TV “filtering out complex ideas in favor of blunt emotional messages that appeal to the self and to narrower moral-political impulses.

Question 17

What is the “shadow primary” or “Kock primary”

Answer 17

the Koch brothers’ projected influence on the 2016 election was so substantial that many observers claimed that Republicans were involved in a “shadow primary” or “Koch primary” focused not on collecting votes but on securing their endorsement—and the hundreds of millions of dollars in support that came with it.