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1
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Sociologists are interested in ______ as Durkheim believed _______ represented certain articulation of thoughts

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Language

Language

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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

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A theoretical explanation based on the idea that language influences thought

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Media

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Technological processes that facilitate communication between and sender and receiver

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Mass media

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Sending a message from one source to multiple people

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Types of mass media

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Internet, tv, newspapers

These are mediums of messages

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__________________ of media refers to how the Media is increasingly owned by a small number of people and organizations

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Corporate concentration

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Corporate concentration of the media can limit the free exchange of ideas and diversity of content we receive

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Two types of media diversity

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1) idea diversity

2) demographic diversity

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Idea diversity

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The range of viewpoints expressed in the media marketplace

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Demographic diversity

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How the media addresses the interests of a diversity of people from a variety of races, ethnitixies, sexual orientations, and classes

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Journalists consider ______ to be newsworthy.

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Crime

If it bleeds it leads

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Newsworthiness Values (12 in total)

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Threshold 
Predictability 
Simplification 
Individualism
Risk
Sex
Celebrity
Proximity
Violence 
Spectacle and graphic imagery 
Children 
Conservative idealogy and political diversion
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Threshold

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Asking whether a story is significant enough to be of interest to a national audience

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Predictability

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Vital resources are often committed to pre-planned events

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Simplification

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A crime story must reduced to a minimal number of parts and themes

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Individualism

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Stories must have a human interest appeal and be easy to relate to

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Risk

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We could all be victims with little attention given to crime avoidance

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Sex

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Sexual violence and female offenders being portrayed as sexual predators

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Celebrity

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Media is attached to celebrities or high status people

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Proximity

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Both spatially and culturally

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Violence

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Fulfils the media’s desire for drama

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Spectacle and graphic imagery

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“This image may be disturbing to some”

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Children

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Either victims or offenders

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Conservative idealogy and political diversion

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Ignore this

25
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In the media, people of color are often presented in ______ and ________ ways

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Derogatory and unflattering

26
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Ideal victim

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White, weak, female, sick, very old,

Going about respectable and legal activities

Unrelated with the offender

Victimized by ethnic minority male

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Police are often seen as _______ that are able to fight crimes quickly and effectively

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Heroic crime fighters

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Darker side of policing

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The side that is about abuse of power and inability to solve crimes

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New media

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Defined as accessible on demand, digital and is interactive

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Social media

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Creation and sharing of online information

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With the rise of media, it has led to ___________

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Cyber bullying

32
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Sousveillance

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The recording by a citizin or witness of an incident or activity to hold a bureaucratic organization to account

Filming the police

Top down

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Global digital divide

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Measure the gap between the digital access and use of technologies across countries

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Media literacy

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A concept devoted to individuals regaining control over their media consumption

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Three stages to media literacy

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Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3

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Stage 1 of media literacy

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Become aware of ones own media diet

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Stage 2 of media literacy

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Learn specific skills of critical viewing

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Stage 3 of media literacy

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Question who is behind the media you are consuming and who is responsible for the message

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