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What are the three societies that media takes a role in?

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  1. Agriculture
  2. Industrial
  3. Information
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define: Rear-view thinking

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using the past to create the future

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What is the Agricultural society’s nature of mass communication?

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One-way print
EX. album passed through family
(-) some generations were illiterate
(-) relied on oral tradition

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define: hard technology

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tools we use to accomplish tasks

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define: soft-technology

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how we use hard technology

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What is the Industrial society’s nature of mass communication?

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One-way print and electronic media

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How did the work hours change from Agricultural to the Industrial Society?

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18-12

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define: compulsory education

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Since people had to read how to use new machines, they had to be literate

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What types of media developed in the Industrial Society?

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  1. Radio baseball games
  2. Records
  3. Television
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What is the nature of mass communication in the Information Society?

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Interactive Media

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define: subjective truths

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  • Post-Modernism Era

when we had a gap, we were able to check facts -> now there is no gap in time

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Every ___ years information is projected to _____.

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7 / double

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How do the Information Society and Agricultural Society relate?

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Because of all the info of the information society - we are now going back to having LESS FREE TIME (like that of the AS)

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___% of workers have information jobs

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54

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In agricultural and industrial society, the amount of people performing tasks has…

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gone down

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In the service industry, the amount of works has ________. Why?

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Increased / quick, easy jobs -> need to support the businessmen

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17
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Which work force has the largest growth?

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information society

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18
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What are the three types of media?

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  1. mass media
  2. personal media
  3. telecommunications media
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What do all three types of media have in common?

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They involve point to multipoint communication

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20
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define: Half-Life

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the rate at which technology changes

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21
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In the information society, everything is ______ affected.

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globally

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22
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define: Mediamorphosis

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Roger Fidler

- the media is ever-evolving

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What are the principles of mediamorphosis?

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  1. Coevolution and coexistence
  2. Metamorphosis
  3. Propagation
  4. Survival
  5. Opportunity and need
  6. Delayed adoption
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define: coevolution and coexistence

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as each new form emerges and develops, it influences the development of other existing forms.
EX. Old DVDs come with Blu-Ray DVDs

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define: metamorphosis

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new media emerges gradually from old media

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define: propagation

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  • new media propagate dominant traits from earlier forms
  • REAR VIEW MIRROR thinking
    Reason why younger generations can adapt to new technology so much faster
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define: survival

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all forms of media are compelled to evolve and adapt

EX. old cell phones were 15-20 pounds

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define: Opportunity and Need

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  • a new media is not adopted on technological merits alone

EX. VHS over Beta - even though VHS was worse quality, it had more time footage

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define: delayed adoption

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take longer than expected to become commercial successes

EX. computers invented before WW2 but recently given superior purpose

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define: Convergence of Media

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THEORY: integration of media into common technological base

EX. smartphones

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define: Diffusion of Innovations

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process whereby innovation spreads in a social system

EX. Twitter - we select by medimorphosis which works best

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32
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What are the factors leading to digital convergence?

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  1. Interactive (we want 2 have what we want)
  2. Demassified (information is personalized)
  3. Asynchronus (We live in this world, Ex. Morning people and night owls. Opposite = SPECIFIC times)
  4. Convenience (info reached easily EX. alphabetizing names on Excel)
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33
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define: Technological Convergence

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merging of print, audio, video into digital media format

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34
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define: Economic Convergence

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merging of internet and telecommunication companies with traditional companies

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35
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define: Cultural convergence

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occurs when one group embraces long-standing traditions and practices of another group

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36
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define: sustaining innovations

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using a device long-term

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define: disruptive innovations

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this will destroy other innovations

EX. cell phones did to land lines did to telegraphs

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38
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What is Saffo’s 30-year rule?

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first decade: excitement, little penetration
second decade: lots of flux, beginning of penetration
third decade: technology taken for granted

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39
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What are Roger’s 5 critical attributes of successful diffusion?

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  1. Relative Advantage: has to have advantage over current technology
  2. Compatibility: b/c u know iphone 4 -> u understand iphone 5
  3. Complexity: u have 2 make technology change seemless
  4. Observability: If your phone is better people will notice
  5. Reliability: A cable system to be active during Super Bowl Sunday…or lights
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What is Fidler’s 6th Principle?

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Familiarity: level of comfort

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What are the stages of Diffusion? AIDTA

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awareness, interest, decision, trial, adoption

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What does the adoption curve answer?

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How do we know new technology will be a high-seller?

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What are the first two categories of the adoption curve?

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  1. Innovators

2. Early Adapters

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What are the last two categories of the adoption curve?

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  1. late adpaters

4. laggards

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What are the factors affecting diffusion?

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Brian Winston’s Supervening Social Necessities:

  1. Economics
  2. Technological
  3. Social
  4. Regulation
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In Brian Winston’s Supervening Social Necessities, what is the economic factor?

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meets needs of company/purchase power of the market

EX. Not about value/technology you develop, but economic times

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In Brian Winston’s Supervening Social Necessities, what is the technological factor?

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compatible / technological infrastructure

EX. You want to have SEEMLESS phases into new technology

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In Brian Winston’s Supervening Social Necessities, what is the social factor?

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acceptance/need

EX. MAc Vs. PC

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In Brian Winston’s Supervening Social Necessities, what is the regulation factor?

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governmental support/trade support

EX. most technology is shipped from abroad

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define: Analog

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continuous variation / all information is transmitted (including noise)
(-) with replication, loses clarity

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define: Digital

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takes samples / translates waves into series of 1s and 0s (binary code)
(-) loses some of sound

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52
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What’s the advantages of digital over analog?

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  • less noise (forced to mask some of content)
  • easier to manipulate (green screen w/ diff. variables)
  • compressible (we can compress full volumes of books onto a simple CD)
  • intelligent channels (behavior is changed depending on nature of content - adjusting room temp to feel comfortable)
  • integrated networks (you don’t need a bunch of connections EX. cell phone does more than call)
53
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define: Marshall McLuhan’s Global Village

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  • immediate transfer of info
  • globe now smaller/reachable
  • common experiences define by media
54
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What are the 3 types of communication?

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  1. Intrapersonal - comm. w/ self (diary)
  2. Interpersonal - face-to-face or machine assisted
  3. Mass Communication - point to multi-point (newspapers, television, radio)
55
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What’s the U.S.’s biggest export?

A

MEDIA

56
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What is the correlation function of mass communication?

A

interpreting information and editorializing or prescribing action

57
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Who created the linear communication model?

A

Shannon & Weaver

58
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define: cognitive filter

A

your mind, interests, emotions

59
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What does the gatekeeping model state?

A

we often live our lives through a specific reporter

60
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define: Uses and Gratifications Theory

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people take an active role in choosing media for the purpose of gratifying needs

61
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______’s typology of needs: cognitive, affective, personal integrative, social integrative, escapist

A

Alex Tan’s

62
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define: Expectancy-Value Theory

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we select media with certain expectations (read TIME to find out about news, etc.)

63
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define: Play Theory

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  • Origins in Freud’s pleasure principle

- We seek to replicate pleasurable experiences through media – pleasure determined by consumer

64
Q

define: Hegemony

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Marxist strategy / Antonio Gramsci

- by dominating media, you can manipulate power to stay in power

65
Q

What idea did McCombs and Shaw come up with?

A

Agenda Setting

66
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define: agenda setting

A

Media sets the agenda of what are considered important issues (GATEKEEPERS)

67
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Spiral of Silence

A

Noelle-Neuman
- society threatens deviant individuals with isolation
EX. Solomon Asch’s line-length test

68
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define: Digital Divide

A 
creates a two class society:
those WITH technology and those WITHOUT
69
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Digital Divide is also known as ____________________

A

Information Gap Hypothesis

70
Q

Who presented the idea of Media Bias?

A

John Street

71
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define: Partisan Bias

A

A cause is deliberately promoted

72
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define: Propaganda Bias

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Make a case for a policy but don’t explicity state it

73
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define: Unwitting Bias

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editorial judgements What do we lead with?

74
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define: Bias by selection

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reader makes a judgement off of main story

75
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define: Bias by experience

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EX. Alumni says it’s great…you check out JMU

76
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define: Bias by market

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EX. stores around JMY now compared to in 1750s…

  • Corporate: they tell you the now, not what’s down the road
  • Government: controls what media puts out
77
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define: Print Bias

A

1st admendment issues

- less regulation

78
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Why is bias in the media good?

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  • people want slanted news
  • advertisers gain from knowing biases of media’s audience
  • you know where to find info
79
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Why is bias in the media bad?

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  • system puts pressure on consumers to seek ALL perspectives
  • audience lack skills in critically analyzing messages
  • inept media literacy
80
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What are the 3 effects research methods of media?

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  1. Content Analysis
  2. Surveys
  3. Experiments
81
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define: content analysis

A

they train on asking/identifying what violence is

- or what is considered to be violent

82
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define: Hypodermic Needle

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says violence “injects” everyone and makes them bad

83
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What’s another term for the Hypodermic Needle Hypothesis?

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Magic Bullet Hypothesis

84
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What are the 2 kinds of copycat actions?

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Prosocial: EX. families see T.V. show highlighting prevention and empathy for Breast Cancer in 60s
Antisocial: EX. kids see T.V. show and go out and start burning cats

85
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define: selective exposure

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we select programs that we want to see

86
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define: selective attention

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how you focus IN; how attentive you are

87
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define: Selective Perception

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how we INTERPRET the message

EX. diff. views in a relationship

88
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define: Selective Retention/Recall

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50% of what you just saw/heard, you remember -> by the end of the day - you barely remember anything

89
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define: Selective Behavior of Social Categories

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You have to look at how media says what is expected

EX. professor chewed chewing tobacco while playing baseball b/c it was expected

90
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define: The two-step flow of media effects

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I show you something –> You follow

EX. online teaching

91
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Media effects can be ______

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indirect

92
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define: The multi-step flow of media effects

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one person communicates to another

EX. Wesley Mcclain Model

93
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define: Opinion Leader

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political process:

- someone who can SWAY your beliefs and attitudes

94
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define: Crystallization

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political process:
this where media sharpes vague attitudes we have
EX. when your signing up for class, you think lectures are dumb. Professor secures idea.

95
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define: Reinforcement

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You have this idea, how by listening to media, it strengthens it

96
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Who presented the social learning theory?

A

Albert Bandura

97
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Albert Bandura

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Social Learning Theory

Bobo Doll experiment on kids: aggressor vs. non-aggressor

98
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Social Learning and Media

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Watching media depicts how we deal/address certain social interactions (behaviors, rewards, justifications)
EX. Georgia Suburban Study

99
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Social Cognitive Theory

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Media can teach us to model behaviors, values, beliefs

100
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George Gerbner

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Cultivation Theory - Movie called Killing Spree - Studied Media Violence

101
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What is Cultivation Theory?

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George Gerbner - Stalagmite Theory: repeated exposure to violence over a period of time impacts the viewer

102
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Who were the first to do research on media violence affecting kids?

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Payne Fund Studies

103
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define: Magic Bullet Theory

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Media effects on us are immediate

104
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define: Cultivation

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Gerbner: stable system of messages/images shapes our conception of the world and everyone around us

105
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define: Mean World Syndrome

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Gerbner: Studies found heavier TV viewers = more fear of a violent world

106
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define: homogenized messages

A

one message for EVERYONE

107
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Priming Effects

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We give short exposures that prime an outcome.

EX. If we expose kids to wrestling, why are we surprised people body slam eachother?

108
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AMA declares violence as a ________________

A

major health problem

109
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define: Media Catharsis

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we see what we wish we could see in real life

110
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define: Disinhibition

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media decides what we do/believe in

111
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define: Imitation

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Ex. Kid wants a packer’s Jersey or Abercrombie jeans because everyone else is wearing it

112
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define: Desensitization

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Ex. This is what rambo does

113
Q

How are women portrayed in media?

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underrated/not as women in power

114
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Who is the most unrepresented group in the media

A

Women

115
Q

Helen Gurley Brown

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Brought attention to the women’s role of independence in her novel “Sex and the Single Girl”

116
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Raoul Cortez

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Latino Media - believed we can use media to guide them to do better (Education)

117
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Frederick Douglass

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Black American Pioneer - “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” published in England

118
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Who was a pioneer for Gay and Lesbian American Media?

A

David Goodstein (The Advocate)

119
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define: yellowface

A

using white actors to portray asian americans

120
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define: Time displacement

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Social & Health Concerns in the media - kids becoming more consumed in media

121
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Closed Societies

A

When government control weeds out unwanted messages

122
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What are the four types of systems?

A
  1. Libertarian
  2. Social-Responsibility System
  3. Authoritarian System
  4. Soviet-Communist
123
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What is the most dominant type of system in the world?

A

Libertarian (independent government)

124
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Authoritarian System

A

A government controls all branches of the media

  • media used as propaganda
  • Iran, Libya, and Burma
125
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Which system is unmotivated by profit?

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Soviet-Communist

EX. China and Cuba

126
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define: High-Cultural Context

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Japan, China, Saudi Arabia

- consumer depends on shared understanding of the context

127
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define: Low-Cultural Context

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U.S., Canada, U.K.
- There’s no need for contextuality
EX. Family Guy / Wipeout
- Meaning is understood right away

128
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define: Cultural Imperialism

A

Spread of culture into society of another; generally without consent

129
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define: Cultural Hegemony

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when powerful corporations exert enormous influence on the global media

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