COMM 110: EXAM 1
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Media
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Communication channels through which news, entertainment, education, data, or promotional messages are disseminated. Namely these are a means of communication that reach or influence people widely. Media includes every broadcasting and narrowcasting (demographics) medium such as newspaper…
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Mass Media
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The mass media are diversified media technologies that are intended to reach a large audience by mass communication, generally through the auspices of organized corporate entities.
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Personal Media
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Personal media grants control over the outcome of the communication process to the user (e.g., VCRs, personal computers, video games, etc.)
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Democracy
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Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Democracy allows eligible citizens to participate equally—either directly or through elected representatives—in the proposal, development, and creation of laws. It …
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Education
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Education is a form of learning in which knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, research, or simply through autodidacticism. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on t…
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Citizenship
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nthe state of being vested with the rights, privileges, and duties of a citizen
nthe character of an individual viewed as a member of society (often defined as the Nation); behavior in terms of the duties, obligations, and functions of a citizen
nthe quality of an individual's response …
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Critical Thinking
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Critical thinking is a type of reasonable, reflective thinking that is aimed at deciding what to believe or what to do. It is a way of deciding whether a claim is always true, sometimes true, partly true, or false.
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Media System Orientation
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The structural organization of the media which guides the production of content and the societal logics related to the dissemination of information/knowledge therein
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Authoritarian
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¨Media as mouthpiece; 1 person, North Korea
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State (Theocracy/Party)
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¨Media as mouthpiece; group of people (paternalism) China
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BBC Educator
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BBC Educator
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Commercial
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USA Product oriented
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Democratic Participant
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Media as conducted for public participation
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Symbolic Culture
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nSymbolic culture is a concept used to differentiate the cultural realm constructed and inhabited uniquely by Homo sapiens from ordinary "culture", which many other animals possess.
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Corporation
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An incorporated entity is a separate legal entity that has been incorporated through a legislative or registration process established through legislation. Incorporated entities have legal rights and liabilities that are distinct from its shareholders and may conduct business for either p…
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Commodification
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Transformation of goods that may not be originally thought of as goods. ex. Water, people
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Commercialism
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Process a new product goes through to get to the market
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Public Sphere
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The public sphere is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action.
The public sphere 'is also distinct from the official economy; it is not an arena of market relations …
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Journalism
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The central purpose of journalism is to provide citizens with accurate and reliable information they need to function in a free society.
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Gatekeeping
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Gatekeeping is the process through which information is filtered for dissemination, whether for publication, broadcasting, the Internet, or some other mode of communication. Gatekeeping occurs at all levels of the media structure - from a reporter deciding which sources are chosen to incl…
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Soft News
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Soft news focuses primarily on content related to commentary, entertainment, arts and lifestyle issues.
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Tabloidization
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Tabloidization refers to a change in emphasis from the factual to the sensational; a change in the style of journalism away from politics and foreign affairs towards entertainment and celebrities; to emphasize the tawdry and sensational
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Bias
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Media bias is the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening the standards of journalism, rather than the perspect…
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Accidental Exposure
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Accidental exposure – with fewer news channels/outlets people were exposed to more information and viewpoints because there was a larger audience to appeal to
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Accidental Exposure
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Narrowcasting – with an increase in the number of news channels/outlets people can now seek out the information they’re more ideologically and politically aligned with
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Bennet
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Please review!!!
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Revolving Doors
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Both Industry and Government benefit, war
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Lobbyist
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RNC,DNC money fundraising, where the companies get their power over the officials
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Propaganda
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Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed towards influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of an argument. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in a…
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Political Advertising
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▪Political advertising is a form of campaigning used by political candidates to reach and influence voters. It can include several different mediums and span several months over the course of a political campaign. Unlike campaign finance, there are very few regulations governing the proce…
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Public Relations
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▪Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing the flow of information between an individual or an organization and the public. The aim of public relations by a company often is to persuade the public, investors, partners, employees, and other stakeholders to maintain a certain point …
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Sound Bytes
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A sound bite is a short clip of speech or music extracted from a longer piece of audio, often used to promote or exemplify the full length piece. In the context of journalism, a sound bite is characterized by a short phrase or sentence that captures the essence of what the speaker was try…
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Spin
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In public relations, spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through providing an interpretation of an event or campaign to persuade public opinion in favor or against a certain organization or public figure. While traditional public relations may also rely on creative presentation of the …
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Spin
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In public relations, spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through providing an interpretation of an event or campaign to persuade public opinion in favor or against a certain organization or public figure. While traditional public relations may also rely on creative presentation of the …
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Nationalism
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•Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a nation
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Censorship
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•Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body. It can be done by governments and private organizations or by individua…
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Terrorism
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•Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, often violent, especially as a means of coercion. The concept of terrorism may be controversial as it is often used by state authorities (and individuals with access to state support) to delegitimize political or other opponents,[and potentially…
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Embedded Journalism
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Euphemism
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•A euphemism is a generally innocuous word, name, or phrase that replaces an offensive or suggestive one. Some euphemisms intend to amuse, while others intend to give positive appearances to negative events or even mislead entirely.
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Patriotism
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Devotion to one's homeland or country
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Ideology
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Devotion to one's homeland or country
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National Security
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•National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic power, diplomacy, power projection and political power by government operatives
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State Terrorism
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•State terrorism has been used to refer to terrorist acts by governmental agents or forces. This involves the use of state resources employed by a state's foreign policies, such as using its military to directly perform acts of terrorism. The concept is also used to describe political rep…
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COMM 110: EXAM 1