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Media Revsion- Deck 1 Flashcards

50 Media Questions

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What are the 4 features of New Media?

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Convergence, Interactivity, User power, Accessibility

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Which sociologist wrote Global Village?

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McLuhan

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Name 5 news values identified by Gatlung and Ruge

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Frequency, familiarity, negativity, unexpectedness, unambiguity, personalisation, meaningfulness

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What term do Marxists use to describe institutions such as the media?

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Ideological State Apparatus

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5
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Name three forms of traditional media

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Newspaper, radio, analogue TV

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Which media model suggests that the audience are passive puppets of what they watch?

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Hypodermic Syringe Model

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What was the Leveson enquiry?

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Government enquiry into the hacking of mobile phones by the News of the World

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What term is used to mean that the media determine what is significant in terms of the news?

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Agenda setting

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What is meant by cultural homogenisation?

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Whole world becomes the same

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Who first used the term symbolic Annihilation in reference to women and the media?

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Tuchman et al.

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What did Baudrillard mean by simulacra?

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Boundaries between reality and media become blurred.

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What term does Curren and Seaton use to describe those who are negative about new media?

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Cultural pessimists.

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What is meant by the term horizontal integration?

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Cross media ownership- companies owning lots of different types of media.

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Who argues that competition between the media companies is healthy and creates a balanced range of media products?

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Pluralists

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Name 3 stereotypes of children that are seen in the media.

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Cute, consumers, little angels/devils, victims, prodigies, accessories.

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Define mass media.

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Forms of communication which reach a larger audience.

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What terms means 2 or more related businesses work together e.g to promote and sell film, toys etc more effectively than they could individually.

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Synergy

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Identify 5 common representations of disability in the media according to Barnes.

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Pathetic, object of violence, sinister, mysterious, super cripples, object of ridicule, their own worst enemy.

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Who talks about retributive masculinity?

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Gauntlett

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According to Gan how do editors act as gatekeepers?

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They decide what is new and what is not.

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Which body regulates the press in the UK?

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Independent Press Standards (IPSO)

21
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What term means the uncritical over-reliance by journalists on ‘facts’ produced by government spin doctors and public relations experts?

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Churnalism

22
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What term means owning all stages in the production, distribution- and consumption of a product?

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Vertical integration

23
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What are the three filters before media affects the audience?

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Selective filter, selective perception, selective retention

24
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Who linked the moral panic about gangsta-rap gun crime?

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Watson

25
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Give one example of public broadcasting media

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BBC

26
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Which sociologist is associated with the cult of feminitity?

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Furguson

27
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What are the four main perspectives of media ownership?

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Marxism, Neo-marxism, Pluralist, Postmodern

28
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What term means including a limited number of minority group members only because it is felt that it is expected?

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Tokenism

29
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What are the 4 main functions the media performs for individual audiences according to Blumer and McQuail

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Diversion, Personal Relationships, Personal Identity, Surveillance

30
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McQuail, Blumer et al suggested that the media is consumed by people in what 4 ways?

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To entertain, to understand, give a sense of identity and social solidarity.

31
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What is meant by popular culture?

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Cultural products liked and enjoyed by the mass of ordinary people. Associated with mass culture.

32
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Identify 4 ways that old people are stereotypically represented as in the media.

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Grumpy, a burden, infantile, demented or confused, second childhood.

33
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Which sociologist associated the idea of moral panics and folk devils created by the media?

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Cohen

34
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Which sociologist is associated with the concept of Churnalism?

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Davies

35
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What is the role of the BBFC?

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To review films and video games and give age recommendations.

36
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What is the cult of femininity?

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The promotion of a traditional ideal where excellence is achieved through caring for others, the family, marriage and appearance. Ferguson claimed that teenage girl magazines traditionally prepared girls for feminised adult roles.

37
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What are the 6 media models?

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Hypodermic syringe model, selective filter, two-step flow, uses and gratifications, cultural effects, reception analysis

38
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What is the disinhibition effect?

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Effect of media violence where the audience believe that in some social situations violence is acceptable.

39
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Who is the owner of the News Corps media group?

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Rupert Murdoch

40
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Name 3 stereotypes of teenagers that are seen in the media.

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Sullen, criminal, over-sexualised, anti-authority.

41
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What term means relieving tensions e.g screen violence provides a safe outlet for other people’s violent tendencies

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Catharsis

42
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Who are the digital underclass?

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A group of people mainly from the lowest social classes who are increasingly disadvantaged in comparison to those who have full access to the internet and other digital media effects.

43
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What area of the media was the focus of research by Greg Philo?

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Media Effects

44
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Give one criticism of the cultural effects model.

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Impossible to measure, suggests audience passivity.

45
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Who talks about the working class being demonised by the media in their book, “Chavs”?

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Owen Jones

46
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In what ways does Van Dijk suggest that black people are represented in the media?

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As a threat to the majority of the population or as invisible.

47
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Which sociologist is associated with the Two Step flow model of media effects?

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Katz and Lazarfield

48
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What term does Curren and Seaton use to describe those who are positive about the new media and its benefits?

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Neophiliacs

49
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What are the Glasgow University Media Group?

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A group of academics who have carries out extensive research into television-based news coverage.

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