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Media Key Terms Flashcards

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Advertising

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Commercials on TV or online aimed to sell something

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Agenda Setting

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News channels focusing on a political issue to make people think its important

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Audience selection

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Airing Childrens cartoons in the morning when kids are watching, then adult things at night

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Bias

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A news channel only reporting positive stories on a police party because the owners support them

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Broadcasting

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TV channels airing shows

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Censorship

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banning certain books or movies from being shown in a country as they contain controversial ideas

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Citizen journalism

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When people post breaking news via recordings they’ve taken

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Convergence

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using your TV to access streaming services

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Cultural effects approach

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When something becomes popular after being shown in a movie or worn by a celeb.

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Democracy

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People voting in elections to choose their leaders

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Digital Divide

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Some students being able to do their homework online whilst others don’t have internet at home

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Distortion

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Editing models to make them fit beauty standards

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Diversification

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When TV shows feature characters of many ethnic backgrounds etc

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Dominant values

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Portraying family as the most important thing in life via TV dramas

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Exaggeration

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eg. News channels making a small car accident seem like a major disaster

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Folk Devils

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eg. Blaming video games for youth violence after a school shooting

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Gatekeeping

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news editors deciding what stories will make it to the front page of a newspaper, or at all

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Globalisation

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Eg. Fast food chains expanding their locations globally and adapting to different cultures and climates

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Hypodermic-syringe model

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People imitating behaviour they see in movies, like stunts

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Imitation

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Copying something you see in the media, like a dance

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Indoctrination

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Teaching children in schools that their country is always right and that the others are wrong

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Interactivity

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Leaving comments on a news post, voting on polls etc

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Invisibilty

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Excluding certain people from advertising like disabled people to make it seem like they don’t exist

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Labelling

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Referring to a person who has committed a crime as a criminal etc

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Lifestyle

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TV shows portraying the life of a person living and working in the city etc, or a reality show that follows the wealthy

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Marxist

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mass communication

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Media content

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Media culture

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Media representation

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Moral panic

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Narrowcasting

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New media

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News Values

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Newsworthiness

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Norm-setting

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Opinion polls

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Pluralist

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Postmodern/Postmodernist

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Propoganda

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Public/private funding

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Public service broadcasting

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Role models

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Scapegoats

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Sensationalism

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Social control

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Social media

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Socialisation

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Stereotyping

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The press

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Traditional media

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