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What is the ISPO?

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Want to promote and uphold the professional standards of journalism in the UK.

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Who are the men who controlled 2/3 of the UK’s newspaper market?

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Lord Rothermere
Rupert Murdock

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Althusser

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Dominant Ideology

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What is the manipulative approach?

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Media owners have direct control over content of the media, and they spread the dominant ideology resulting in media workers having little choice.
MARXIST APPROACH

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Curran and Seaton

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Media ownership and media manipulation

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Leveson Inquiry

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Links between media owners and gov with media support given to political parties.

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Neophiliacs

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Rise of new digital media and citizen journalism undermines influence of media.

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What is the Hegemonic Approach?

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Media owners rarely have direct control over the content of media, they leave this to employees. They don’t always spread dominant ideology as they cater for the audience.
NEO-MARXISM

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Global Village

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Refers to the way that mass media now operates on a global scale and can shrink barriers of space and time.

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Low Culture

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Insulting term used to suggest popular or mass culture not high culture.

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High Culture

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Seen as lasting and artistic or literary value. Admired and valued by intellects and elites

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Popular Culture

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Liked and enjoyed by ordinary people.

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Mass Culture

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Commercially produced culture, entertainment for sale to ordinary people.

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Giddens 2010

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forms of high culture are now used to produce products for mass popular culture.

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Strinati 1995

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elements of high culture have become a part of popular culture and vice versus. No single mass culture

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Marcuse 2002

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media emphasises on fun and relaxation and undermines our ability to think critically about the world.
Type of social repression

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Sterger 2005

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globalisation is a set of global processes that goes into social globality.

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What is the cultural imperialistic view of media?

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Idea that one culture has been spread across the globe, widening cultures and reducing variety.
Influenced by MARXISM

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Cultural Imperialism

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Imposition of Western Cultures on non-western cultures and undermining cultural independence and local cultures.

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Media Imperialism

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Suggestion that the media, particularly the internet have led to imposition of Western Cultures on non-western cultures.

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Cocacolonization

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When the western world - specifically America - pushes their culture onto the non-western world through products like coca-cola.

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Cultural Homogenization

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Process of where characteristics of cultures are lost and erased and blended into one uniform culture.

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Pluralistic views of the global popular culture:

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Pluralists argue there is no such thing as popular or mass culture. New media gives consumers enormous choice and doesn’t dumb down content.

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Compaine 2005

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Global competition is expanding sources of information and entertainment rather than dumbing down.

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Hydridization

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process of the creation of a new hybrid culture when aspects of 2 or more different cultures combine.

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Tomlinson 1999

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Globalisation doesn’t involve cultural imposition on the Western World.

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Mcdonaldization

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refers to the homogenisation and standardisation of the world as a result of globalisation and capitalism.

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What is the Glasgow media group

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has shown a series of studies over many years that the news is a sequence of socially manufactured messages produced with the dominant ideology.

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Philo and Berry 2011

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Many traditional reports can be biased.

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Ashuin 2012

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Citizen journalism can overcome bias. Ashuin showed alternative views are available if people continue to post them.

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Bivens 2008

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Citizen journalism has been used to expose illegal and corrupt activities politicians, public services have been engaging in which traditional reports wouldn’t publish.

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Churnalism

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Churn + Journalism
News articles are produced based on pre-packaged material in press releases provided by sources such as spin doctors and news agencies.

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Almy et al 1984

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Representation of the media
Media portrays of gender are reinforcing the dominant ideology - presenting men to be superior.

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