Poli Chapter 11 Media Flashcards
What determines mass media product??
5 filters
Economic filters Regulatory filters Technological filters Organizational filters Idealogical filters
What are the economic filters
Largely private profit driven finance by advertisements small ownership market
Over 70% of Canadian media is owned by bell CTV and global
Audience size important Product producers small number Link between politics and marketing Support for status quo Public-sector relatively small value of cultural products peculiar to Canada generally low
What are regulatory filters
Regulation comparatively light in print media
Law of defamation human rights commission’s
Hate speech split run edition” policy
Regulation of Internet slight in Canadian another and Western democracies
Provisions of the criminal code
Federal and provincial human rights laws
Canadian content guidelines for TV radio
What are technological filters
Visual character of TV lens itself to
- personalization and sensationalism
- social forces and factor is not always evident
Images powerful for whoever can shape them and have them aired
Politician/political parties explicitly use capacity of TV to Shape thinking eg Stephen Harper at Tim Hortons and attack ads
Interest groups and social movements
What are organizational filters
Needs and routine procedures of organizations influence what is reported and how it is covert timelines use of pseudo-events use of experts
Importance of predictability anchors timing content style
People perceive to be influenced officials perceived to have power and more likely to make the news
Being seen on the news automatically confers credibility and Legitimacy
Visual appeal:prioritize most dramatic or most dramatic or visual film footage
What are ideological filters
Do media have left of centre biases??
Studies suggest perhaps mass media tend to confirm and reinforce existing opinions rather than change opinions
Focus on conflict and controversy
Government officials and powerful private interests
Naturally gives impression that those in media are anti-establishment critics
Why does the media often get fooled
Those reporters quit job by each 30
Journalists vulnerable to manipulation
Very tight timelines
May join public relations firms in government
One journalist to every four public relations worker
Serious effects of public appetite for infotainment
What is mediated democracy
Citizens depend on media to act a intermediary btwn them and poli leaders
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What’s politics of spin
Poli info delivered to consumer with biases
Turns of a phrase to present story from certain angle
Key details hidden from public scrutiny
What is party press
Early newspapers that relied on government advertising and that were blatantly partisan
Readership elites operators sympathetic to pp
What is the press gallery
Each legislature has a press gallery comprised of accredited journalists who are assigned to cover government and legislative proceedings granted special access to interact with public officials
What is the fourth estate
Informal term for the media implies the Free Press is so vital to democracy that it is on par with three branches of government executive legislative and judiciary
What is Andrew Chadwicks four categories of E government
G2c - gov to citizens
G2b - gove to business
G2e - gov to employees
G2g - gov to gov
What was the open data pilot project of 2011
Critics say government bombarding people with quantitative data which Doolittle to assist them with understanding the rationale for policy reasons
What is horse race coverage
When media prioritize reporting on who is winning as indicated by latest polls all giving scanned attention to contestants who are forecast to lose or issues at the heart of the campaign
