Media - Random Bits

Question 1

What does disinformation lead to?

Answer 1

a lack of trust in public institutions and social division

Question 2

What is internet activism?

Answer 2

Grassroots movements using the Internet, especially social media, to mobilize, organize protests, raise awareness and funds, etc.

Question 3

What is hacktivism?

Answer 3

2. Hacktivism: Refers to the use of computer networks as a means of protest to promote political ends.

Question 4

What is Alternative media?

Answer 4

Media that represent and give voice to people ignored by mainstream news media

Question 5

What is culture jamming

Answer 5

A reapproproation of our mental space that has become saturated with commercial messages.

Question 6

What is the internet

Answer 6

A global system of interconnected computer network system using Internet protocol suite to link devices worldwide

Question 7

What is the web

Answer 7

The World Wide Web: the collection of web pages that you view when you are online on a computer or other device

Question 8

What percentage of the worlds population has access to internet

Answer 8

57%

Question 9

What is the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

Answer 9

• Web 1.0: desktop online shopping. web 2.0: social medias, mobile, cloud services.

Question 10

What percentage of Facebook’s revenue comes from advertising.

Answer 10

97.5

Question 11

What is the information panopticon

Answer 11

Technological systems use transparency to assert power, control, and authority over users. Data is collected on a user using various technologies: Google gps, fitbit health statistic, biometrics in India, facial recognition, and then that information is being used by businesses and governments to control their populations

Question 12

What are 4 principles of journalism

Answer 12

o Loyalty must go to the citizens
o Objective in reporting news
o Be balanced not to favour one side of the issue
o Defend democracy

Question 13

What are the 5 bias filters present in news media

Answer 13

1. Size, Ownership, and Profit Orientation
2. The Advertising License to Do Business
3. Sourcing Mass Media News
4. Flak and the Enforcers
5. Anti-Communism

Question 14

Describe 1. Size, Ownership, and Profit Orientation

Answer 14

newspapers survive with large investments from big coorps they need to please

Question 15

Explain 2. The Advertising License to Do Business

Answer 15

 Media must have the largest audiences possible to attract companies who want to advertise with them

Question 16

Sourcing Mass Media News

Answer 16

 “Official” sources (i.e. the state or huge private businesses) provide most of the information to journalists. These

Question 17

Flak and the enforcers

Answer 17

 News media seeks to avoid flak: negative response to a media statement or program – can be damaging: lawsuits, boycotts, etc.

Question 18

Anti-communism/ the need for enemies

Answer 18

 News media has to fit into the dichotomous frame of the political world: us vs. them.

Question 19

Joint venture

Answer 19

partnership between two businesses

Question 20

oligopoly

Answer 20

a market where a few sellers dominate

Question 21

conglomerate

Answer 21

Company that operates across several business sectors

Question 22

Media cross ownership

Answer 22

ownership of multiple media businesses by a person or corporation

Question 23

Concentration of media ownership

Answer 23

Due to mergers, fewer and fewer firms control a large shares of the market.

Question 24

Describe postwar american culture

Answer 24

1.Leisure time (economic growth)
2. Television – common references: nation-building
3. Suburban consumer culture – conspicuous consumerism- homogenous white middle class –
4. Levels out former religious and ethnic differences
5. Race and gender inequalities remain
6. Consumption becomes rituals, spirituality

Question 25

What is the difference between Americanization and american cultural imperialism?

Answer 25

Americanization is the process of American brands and values being adopted by global cultures. American cultural imperialism refers to how American culture is pushed onto other cultures, and how parts of those cultures will be limited or misappropriated

Question 26

How is Americanization limited?

Answer 26

 Global digital divide
 Proptectionism
 Indigenization,-

Question 27

How is protectionism achieved in Canada

Answer 27

1. Restrict American content (quotas) – 60% of tv
2. Subsidize Canadian content
3. Created public cultural institutions