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Mass Communication

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Teechnology-enabled process by which messages are sent to large, faraway audiences

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Mass Media

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Strictly speaking, mass media are the vehicles through which messages are disseminated to mass audiences. The term is also used for industries built on mass media.

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Social Media

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Internet-based communication platforms for the interactive exchange of user-generated content

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Media Literacy

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competences that enable people to analyze and evaluate media messages and also to create effective messages for mediated delivery.

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Demassification

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Media’s focus on narrower audience segments

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Sub-mass audience

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A section of the largest mass audience, with niche interests

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Narrowcasting

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Seeking niche audiences, as opposed to broadcastingg’s traditional audience building concept

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Halftone

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Reproduction of an image in which the various tones of gray or color produced by variously sized dots of ink.

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Persistence of Vision

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Fast-changing still photos create the illusion of movement

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Digital

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Technology through which media messages are coded into 1s and 0s for delivery transmission and then decoded into their original appearance

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Media convergence

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Melding of print, electronic and photographic media into digitalized form

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Gatekeepers

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Media people who influence messages en route

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Filter

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Receiver factor that impedes communication in various types, informational, physical, psychological

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Linotype

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Complex machine with typewriter like keyboard to set type into line from molten lead.

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Venture Capitalists

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investors who take substantial risk, typically in a new or expanding business

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Conglomeratttion

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Process of companies being brought into common ownership but remaining distinct entities

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Cooperative

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An organization owned and run jointly by members that share profits or benefits

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1789 Postal Act

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Provided government discounts for mailing newspapers

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Philanthropy

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Generous donation for good causes

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Underwriting

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On-Air acknowledgements of non commercial broadcasting sponsors

21
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Oligopoly

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An industry in which a few companies dominate production, distribution

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Monopoly

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Single company dominates production, distribution in an industry, either nationally or locally.

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Chain newspaper

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Owned by a company that owns other newspapers elsewhere

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Market penetration

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Sales per capita

25
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Muckraking

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early 1990s term for investigative reporting

26
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Trade books

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General-interest titles, including fiction and nonfiction

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e-books

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digital files of book content that are stored, searched, sampled, downloaded and paid for online for use on computer, dedicated reader or cell phone

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Harry Potter Effect

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Impact of single best-selling book

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Penny Papers

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Affordable newspapers introduced in 1833 created unprecedented mass audience

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Publisher

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Magazine or newspaper’s proprietor

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Payola

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A bribe to promote a product, like airplay for a music

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Playlist

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a list of songs that a radio station plays

33
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Federal radio act

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1927 law establishing government regulation of radio

34
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First Amendment

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Provision in US Constitution against government interference with free citizen expression, including media content

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Localism

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Issuing broadcast licenses for service to a specified community and its environs

36
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Frequency Modulation

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Radio technology with superior fidelity. Signals travel in straight linnes

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Amplitude Modulation

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Radio technology with great range. Signals follow curvature of earth

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Arbitron

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Radio listener survey company

39
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Star system

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Makin actors into celebrities to increase the size of movie audiences

40
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Studio system

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When major studios controlled all aspects of the movie industry

41
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Federal Communications Act

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Revision of federal radio act in 1934 to include television

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Indies

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Minor movie studies; not among Big Five

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Documentary

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A video examination of a historical or current event or a natural or social phenomenon

44
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Fairness Doctrine

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A US government requirement from 1949 to 1987 that broadcast presentations had to include both sides on competing public issues

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Blockbuster

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A movie that is a great commercial success; also used to describe books

46
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B-movie

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Low budget movie, usually with little artistic aspiration

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Time Shifting

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Ability of viewer to change when they access programming

48
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Feedback

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Response to a message

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