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COMM 105 - Mass Media (Eastern University) > Midterm > Flashcards

Midterm Flashcards

1
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Herbert Gans news characteristics (1)

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Capitalism

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Herbert Gans news characteristics (2)

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Small-town pastoralism

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Herbert Gans news characteristics (3)

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Ethnocentrism

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Herbert Gans news characteristics (4)

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Altruistic democracy

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5
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Herbert Gans news characteristics (5)

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Individualism

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Herbert Gans news characteristics (6)

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Moderatism

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Herbert Gans news characteristics (7)

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Social order

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Herbert Gans news characteristics (8)

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Leadership

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9
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Who invented the phonograph?

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Thomas Edison in 1877

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Who invented the gramophone?

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Emile Berliner in 1888

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11
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Interpersonal Communication

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Communication between two people

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Intrapersonal Communication

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Communication you have with yourself

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13
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Group Communication

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Communicating with 2+ people

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14
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Mass Communication

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When an individual sends messages to a large audience

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15
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Cognitive Dimension

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Ability to intellectually process information communication by the media

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16
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Emotional Dimension

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Understanding the feeling creates by media messages

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17
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Aesthetic Dimension

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Interpreting media content from an artistic point of view

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18
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Moral Dimension

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Understanding the value of the message.

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19
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Transmission Model (SMCR)

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a dated model of one direction flow of messages

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Ritual Model

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Media use is interactive ritual

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Publicity Model

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Looks at how media attention makes a person important

22
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Reception Model

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Looks at how audience members derive and create meaning out of media content

23
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Agenda Setting

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Media tells public what to think about

24
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Cultivation Analysis

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Mean world syndrome

25
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Social Learning

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We extract key information from the situations we observe

26
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Synergy

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A combination of effects that is greater than the sum of the individual effects

27
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Short Head

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a large number of people interested in buying a limited number of products

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Long Tail

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a limited number of people are interested in buying a lot of different products

29
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Pictographs

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pictures painted on a rock or cave walls

30
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Ideographs

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Abstract symbols that stands for a word or phrase

31
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Writing originates in Egypt or Mesopotamia

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Approx. 3500 BC

32
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Approx. 2000 BC

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Phonography begins

33
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1700-1500 BC

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Alphabets developed

34
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3100 BC

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Egyptians developed papyrus

35
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240-105 BC

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Paper was developed by Chinese

36
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1455

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Gutenberg develops movable metal

37
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Penny Press

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Sold on the street for two cents

38
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1833

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Benjamin Day’s idea The New York Sun

39
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Yellow Journalism (1)

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The battle between Pulitzer & Hearst

40
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Yellow Journalism (2)

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Popularized comics, including yellow kid

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1844

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Telegraph message sent over wires

42
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1890s

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Marconi develops wireless telegraph

43
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1905

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Fessenden makes Christmas eve broadcast with voice

44
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1920

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First radio station in Pittsburgh

45
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1922

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BBC was created

46
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Death of social music

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rise of the personal soundtrack

47
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LP

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Long-playing record 23 minutes of music per side

COMM 105 - Mass Media (Eastern University) (1 decks)

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