TCWLAST Flashcards

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SOCIAL MEDIA CATEGORIES

Blogging services, video and photo blogging tools, podcasting, and micro-blogging.

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Messaging and communication:

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SOCIAL MEDIA CATEGORIES
Essentially, all of the social, business, and special-interest networking services.

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Communities and social groups:

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SOCIAL MEDIA CATEGORIES

Specialty services that allow you to upload photos and videos to the web, and to manage those images.

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Photo and video sharing:

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SOCIAL MEDIA CATEGORIES

: Services that allow users to identify online content with keywords, and share the links. You get the descriptions and some opinions, but not the actual content.

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Social bookmarking and tagging

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SOCIAL MEDIA CATEGORIES

Websites that allow users to add and update content from their browsers. Wiki has become the generic term.

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Collaboration and cooperation:

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SOCIAL MEDIA CATEGORIES

Services such as Yelp and Epinions, which provide user-generated reviews of everything from books to restaurants.

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Opinion and reviews:

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SOCIAL MEDIA CATEGORIES
in which you interact with other users in real time through avatars. Second Life is the most famous, but online role playing games, such as World of Warcraft, fit this definition, too.

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Virtual worlds: Rich environments

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six bases and Types of social power:
is the ability to give rewards when others comply with your wishes. This may not work from one setting to the next. For example, an employee might laugh at a boss’s joke, but the boss’s neighbor might not.

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Reward Power

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six bases and Types of social power:
is the opposite of Reward Power. It’s the ability to deliver punishments. While _____ can be effective in the short-term, it creates resentment and individuals will try to end the relationship.

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Coercive Power

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six bases and Types of social power:
(This is where role models come into play) is when somebody wants to be like you. They identify with you. You are their reference model. They find you attractive in some way and they model your behavior or thinking

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Referent Power

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six bases and Types of social power:
is power that comes from a position or role. It’s positional authority. For example, you “should” or “ought” to listen to your parents, or your boss.

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Legitimate Power

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six bases and Types of social power:
also “Knowledge is power” is where expertise or knowledge is the source of power. This is where credentials, awards, and know-how play a role. You end up deferring to greater knowledge for the area of expertise, such as a doctor or mechanic.

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Expert Power

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six bases and Types of social power:

is the most transitory type of power. Once you give your information away, you give your power away. For example, you share the secret, your power is gone. It’s different from other forms of power because it’s grounded in what you know about the content of a specific situation.

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Informational Power

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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines the ________ as “the gap between individuals, households, businesses and geographic areas at different socio-economic levels with regard to both their opportunities to access information and communication technology

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digital divide

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maybe defined as special kind of social communication characterized by a unique audience, communication experience, and communicator.

The source that the majority of the general public uses to get their news and information from is considered

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Mass Media

also referred to as mass communication

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which can be defined as the dissemination of messages widely, rapidly, and continuously to large and diverse audiences in an attempt to influence them in some way.

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mass communication,

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PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES IN MASS MEDIA

Aggressive media coverage of an issue can make people believe an insignificant issue is important. Similarly, media coverage may underplay an important issue.

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Agenda Setting:

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PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES IN MASS MEDIA

People evaluate politicians based on the issues covered in the press.

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Priming:

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PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES IN MASS MEDIA

How an issue is characterized in news reports can influence how it is understood by the receivers; involves the selective inclusion or omission of facts (“bias”).

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Framing:

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addresses the validity of theories, the nature of good and evil in media programming, the question of universals, problems of relativism, and the rationale for morality in a secular age.

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Metaethics

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TYPE OF ETHICS

concentrates on the justice or injustice of societies and institutions.

has received the most attention in media ethics,

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Normative ethics

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TYPE OF ETHICS

uses social science methodologies to report on how ethical decision-making actually works in journalism, advertising, public relations, and entertainment.

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Descriptive ethics

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TYPE OF ETHICS

is the branch of ethics in which people define what is morally right or wrong by the actions themselves, rather than referring to the consequences of those actions, or the character of the person who performs them.

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Deontology (or Deontological Ethics)

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A ____ approach to ethics is based on the concept of seeking a “telos” in ethical decision-making.

is a Greek word meaning “end” or “goal”;

is concerned with how choices will affect a particular desired moral outcome.

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teleological

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A ____ approach to ethics is based on the concept of seeking a “telos” in ethical decision-making.

is a Greek word meaning “end” or “goal”;

is concerned with how choices will affect a particular desired moral outcome.

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teleological

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the position that moral decision making is contextual or dependent on a set of circumstances.

holds that moral judgments must be made within the context of the entirety of a situation and that all normative features of a situation must be viewed as a whole.

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Situation ethics, also called situational ethics,

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social institution that involves unified system of belief and practices that recognizes the sacred.

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Religion

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____ comes from the Greek katholikos, the combination of two words, kata (concerning), and holos (whole).

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Catholic

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____The church believes these sacraments were instituted by Jesus and that they confer God’s grace.

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Protestant-

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shares much with the other Christian Churches in the belief that God revealed himself in Jesus Christ, and a belief in the incarnation of Christ, his crucifixion and resurrection.

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Orthodox-

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Fastest-growing religion in the world

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Islam

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is the largest denomination of Islam

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Sunni

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believe that just as a prophet is appointed by God alone, only God has the prerogative to appoint the successor to his prophet

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Shia

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It is the largest religion in India and third largest religion in the world with 1.1 billion followers. ______ believe in Dharma (ethic/ Duties), Artha (prosperity/ work), Karma (Action/ intent, and consequences).

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Hinduism