Media

Question 1

Mass media

Answer 1

• A means of communication to reach the common masses
• No personal interaction between the sender and receiver

Question 2

New media vs social media

Answer 2

• Digitized, interactive, and technological media
• Sharing of ideas, thoughts, and info through digital communities, and virtual networks

Question 3

Function vs dysfunction of mass media

Answer 3

• Provide information, entertainment, transmit values
• Foster mass panic, increase social conformity, the opium of the people (addiction)

Question 4

Technological perspective

Answer 4

• The medium/tech that transfers the message has more effects than the message

Question 5

Conflict perspective

Answer 5

• Media being used as a profit-making tool rather than for the good of the public
• Serves the interest of the few
• Influenced people’s values

Question 6

Current issues in media

Answer 6

• Bias in news
• The desensitization of violence
• Censorship

Question 7

Misinfo vs disinfo vs malinfo

Answer 7

• unintentional distribution of false info
• Intentional distribution of false info
• Manipulate real info for malicious purposes

Question 8

Quantitative and qualitative

Answer 8

• Over/under-representation of a group relative to the population
• Stereotyping of status, role, and characteristic

Question 9

Social media issues (personal)

Answer 9

• Needs to keep up
• Fomo
• Fears of being watch
• Addiction

Question 10

Social media issues (social)

Answer 10

• Cocooning effects/isolation
• Authenticity of identity
• Oversharing
• Addiction