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Question 1

Media

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Vehicles used to transmit info in acts of communication

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Past media

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Telegraphs

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Present media

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Smartphone apps

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Individual audience example

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Handwritten letter

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Mass audience

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Books, streaming movies etc.

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Trend of media use from 2001 to 2018

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Moved more towards the use of internet

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Simulmedia

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Using multiple forms of media at once

When taken into account for the 2001-2018 study, shows that media usage has been stable

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Variations when comparing younger and older ages in media use

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TV viewing versus internet use

Younger ages prefer streaming services

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People born after 2006 are

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Digital natives

Never lived in a world without social media

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Impact of media on individuals in society

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Defines social problems

Shapes public debates

Defines boundaries between groups

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Types of research used to study media

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Administrative research

Critical research

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Administrative research

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Looks at the effects of media messages on individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviours

who says what to whom, and with what effects?

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Administrative research is similar to more

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Objectivist deviance scholars who use positivist theories

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Administrative research

Advertising in the US

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US spends the most in the world in advertising (about 281 billion dollars)

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Administrative research

Product placement

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Can be physical (luxury cars in James Bond movies) or virtual

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Administrative research

Does media violence increase aggression

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Correlational studies found a small-moderate relationship that is statistically significant

Experimental studies found that people had less empathy, more acceptance of aggression to resolve problems, and an increase in aggressive behaviour

Individual variations are present

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Desensitization

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Exposure to violence makes people more tolerant of violence

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Emotional desensitization

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Lower levels of anxiety when watching a violent film

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Physiological desensitization

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Lower heart rates and blood pressure when watching a violent film

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Critical research

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The media constructs events, issues, and identities

Intertwined with structures of power in society

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Critical research is more similar to

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Subjectivist deviance scholars who use interpretive and critical theories

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Critical research media framing

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Framing is the overall way that an issue is depicted in social media

Affects what we notice about reality

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Media framing

Framing ethnic groups

indigenous people

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Absent in Canadian news stories, relative to population size

Stereotyped portrayals

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Implications of framing Micro level

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Understandings of self

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Implications of framing macro level

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Hegemony (one group having control over another), acceptance of stereotypes, social policies

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Critical research Trends in media ownership

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Convergence Conglomeration Concentration

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Convergence

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Individual companies own multiple forms of media

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Conglomeration

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Companies merge or buy out others, creating a larger company

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Concentration

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A small number of companies control most media products

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Largest media corporations in the world

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8 of the 10 largest are American 21st century fox was bought up by Disney, which further increased the ownership of major media corporations

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The media-deviance nexus states

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Media as a cause of deviance Media constructs deviance and normality Media as a tool for deviance Media as a site of the deviance dance Deviantization of forms of media

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The media as a cause of deviance

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As seen in administrative approaches to media studies

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The media as a cause of deviance advertising example

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Effects of alcohol ads with party-like scenes on underage drinking

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The media as a cause of deviance media violence example

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Increased aggression

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The media constructs deviance and normality

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Critical approaches to media studies

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The media constructs deviance and normality examples

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Framing of ethnic groups Media portrayals of youth crime

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Using media for deviance example

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Cyberdeviance

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Cyberdeviance

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Deviant acts that are committed using computer technology Includes cybercrime and digital piracy

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Cybercrime

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Hacking, hacktivism, phishing, cyberterrorism, cyber warfare

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Digital piracy

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A microdeviation

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The media and the deviance dance

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Differing points of view, debates, and resistance Media being used as a site of debate as well as a tool to socially control deviance (ie. exposing children exploitation) Also used as a tool for resistance

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Media being used as a tool for resistance examples

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Supporting decolonization (framing issues from Indigenous Peoples' perspectives) Journalists for Human Rights Importance of social media for marginalized social groups

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Deviantizing the media example

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Parental restrictions on children's media use Government censorship of media

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Deviantizing the media example Efforts of moral entrepreneurs regarding youth media

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Concerns about effects of media on youth behaviours Deviantization of media associated with "troublesome" groups of youth