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Media Conglomerates

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small and midsized companies that come together to form bigger company that controls a lot of the market share. Disney and AT&T

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Concentration

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When a handful of firms dominate an industry

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Cross-Promotion

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Using 1 media to promote products owned by the same company. Disney using its TV station to promote new Star Wars Toys

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Horizontal Integration

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Same product not the same industry own one level of production or distribution. For instance Disney owns movies, TV, news, marketing, and other companies but doesn’t make cameras.

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Vertical Integration

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Same industry but not competitive products, multiple levels. Kills competitions like Steel company from guided age.

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AT&T and Time Warner

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Two large companies that merged so AT&T now a horizontally integrated company controlling many products and sources that are in competition of each other.

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Independent media

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Media that breaks away from conventional norms like star system, clear narrative structure and conventions. A24

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Legacy TV

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Broadcast cable or channels

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Open TV

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Independent on demand connects more peer to peer TV

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Narrowcasting

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Transmitting TV to niche audience or small species dialed group.

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World Wide Web

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Internet form of communication that connects servers with common IP address. First person is Time Burners-Lee.

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Dial-up vs Broad Band

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Using the Telephone system to dial up internet versus cable faster internet on its own service that is easier to access.

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Digital Media

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umbrella term for electronic data/texts and images. Social media and news from TV

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4 Main concepts of Digital Media

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  1. Automation: people automatically do it
  2. Ethereality: No physical presence so easier to distribute
  3. Multimedia: combination of various types
    Interactivity: Dialogue between humans and computer
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Net Neutrality

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Everyone and every site given the same speed of internet no matter what. Keep competition open.

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FCC

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Government body responsible for regulated Media, Internet, and Television. Radio and Satellite are included.

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Surveillance Culture

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Everyone has agreed to be watched over by media and what we post being public means that anyone can find us.

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Panopticon

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Michel Foucault the prisoner complex that people act different if they think they are being watched so built and giant tower that prisoners couldn’t see into to make them think they were always being watched.

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Representation

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How things are portrayed int eh media, how editing effects the version of reality, somatic vs symbolic learning

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Systems of Representation

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Sorting objects, people, and events, into correlated metal ideas. Connecting the dots between events and the metal map of how the world works.

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Disproportionate Representation

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When media under represents groups and demographics of society as compared to actual representation.

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Symbolic Annihilation

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Lack of presence of certain groups saying those those groups are not worth representing. (Native Americans and People with Disabilities)

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Social Class

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social stratification based on income, education, tastes, and heritage

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American Dream

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The idea that if people work hard enough they can achieve their dreams.

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Neoliberalism

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The idea that seeks to liberate government control of the market complicated ability to climb social ladder

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Meritocracy

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Merit based system where people are promoted based on skills. Doesn’t always happen in America

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Stereotypes of the working class

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The divides between upper and lower, blue and white color, redneck vs urban. What people wear and how that signifies what class they belong in.

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Essentialism

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How gender defines identity

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The Gender Spectrum

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The range of how people feel from masculine to feminine.

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Hegemonic masculinity

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The stereotype of men that emphasizes white, middle class, straight males over other men. That to be masculine one must fall into all of these categories.

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Emphasized Femininity

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The portrayal of being feminine as unequal to men, white hero caring emotional thin and small

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The Male Gaze

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The look at how woman are portrayed in media is based on how men see them because film and media is a men dominated field. Therefore the camera sees woman as objects to be looked at in one way creating a stereotype.

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Race

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Affiliation based on social constructed groupings

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Ethnicity

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Affiliation based on shared geographical roots, background, ancestors, religion, or culture

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Stereotype

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Fitting a group of people into one form or idea that is perpetuated by that groups portray in media. Blacks in the 1960’s

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Assimilation

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Showcasing races in media without mentioning their race. Everything is fine and race plays absolutely no factor reducing the racism to individual problems and not something society needs to deal with.

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Pluralist

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Media portraying a minority race as separate but equal. Fresh Prince of Bel Air, black people in white people lives. Race is homogenous. Doesn’t address racism though or the greater world.

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Multiculturalist

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More diversity of race and races so that they are not strict to one set of stereotypes or ideals. In the end, it does make more progress at addressing racism and race

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Heteronormative

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Views that men like woman being white middle class the “American normal” Mainly referred to which identities are standard.

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Queer Representational Trends

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In more recent years very positive with increases in representation and characters on shows becoming reoccurring and main cast. However, a lot of the representation can come from one show or one station so progress still needs to be made.

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Queer Contextually

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Eve Ng idea about how context informs

  1. The validity of reading a queer text
  2. the political and economic feasibility of having a canonical character
  3. the quality of the canonical LGBTQA+ character

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