Media Revsion- Deck 1

Question 1

What are the 4 features of New Media?

Answer 1

Convergence, Interactivity, User power, Accessibility

Question 2

Which sociologist wrote Global Village?

Answer 2

McLuhan

Question 3

Name 5 news values identified by Gatlung and Ruge

Answer 3

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Ideological State Apparatus

Question 5

Name three forms of traditional media

Answer 5

Newspaper, radio, analogue TV

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Hypodermic Syringe Model

Question 7

What was the Leveson enquiry?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Agenda setting

Question 9

What is meant by cultural homogenisation?

Answer 9

Whole world becomes the same

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Tuchman et al.

Question 11

What did Baudrillard mean by simulacra?

Answer 11

Boundaries between reality and media become blurred.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Cultural pessimists.

Question 12

What is meant by the term horizontal integration?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Pluralists

Question 14

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

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Define mass media.

Answer 15

Forms of communication which reach a larger audience.

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

Synergy

Question 17

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

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Who talks about retributive masculinity?

Answer 18

Gauntlett

Question 19

According to Gan how do editors act as gatekeepers?

Answer 19

They decide what is new and what is not.

Question 20

Which body regulates the press in the UK?

Answer 20

Independent Press Standards (IPSO)

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Churnalism

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Vertical integration

Question 23

What are the three filters before media affects the audience?

Answer 23

Selective filter, selective perception, selective retention

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Watson

Question 25

Give one example of public broadcasting media

Answer 25

BBC

Question 26

Which sociologist is associated with the cult of feminitity?

Answer 26

Furguson

Question 27

What are the four main perspectives of media ownership?

Answer 27

Marxism, Neo-marxism, Pluralist, Postmodern

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Tokenism

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Diversion, Personal Relationships, Personal Identity, Surveillance

Question 30

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

Answer 30

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

Question 31

What is meant by popular culture?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

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

Answer 32

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

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Cohen

Question 34

Which sociologist is associated with the concept of Churnalism?

Answer 34

Davies

Question 35

What is the role of the BBFC?

Answer 35

To review films and video games and give age recommendations.

Question 36

What is the cult of femininity?

Answer 36

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.

Question 37

What are the 6 media models?

Answer 37

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

Question 38

What is the disinhibition effect?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Who is the owner of the News Corps media group?

Answer 39

Rupert Murdoch

Question 40

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

Answer 40

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

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Catharsis

Question 42

Who are the digital underclass?

Answer 42

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.

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Media Effects

Question 44

Give one criticism of the cultural effects model.

Answer 44

Impossible to measure, suggests audience passivity.

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Owen Jones

Question 46

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

Answer 46

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

Question 47

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

Answer 47

Katz and Lazarfield

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Neophiliacs

Question 49

What are the Glasgow University Media Group?

Answer 49

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