Exam 1

Question 1

Media

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Industries that create and distribute songs, novels, newspapers, movies, internet, TV shows, magazines, and other products to larger numbers of people

Question 2

oral media

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info passed along by teachers, storytellers, and poets

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written media

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info painstakingly written by monks, philosophers, and stenographers

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print media

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the wide dissemination of many copies of particular manuscripts

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electronic media

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info transmitted via telegraph or other rmachines

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digital media

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any info/sound or symbol transmitted by a digital device

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media convergence

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1) the technological merging of content in different mass media
2) has another business meaning

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high culture

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good taste, and higher education

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low culture

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commercial junk and for the masses

Question 10

social scientific research

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attempts to understand, explain, and predict the impact of mass media on individuals and society

Question 11

cultural studies

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explore how people make meaning, understand reality, articulate values, and interpret their experiences through use of cultural symbols in media

Question 12

form

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refers to the work’s style, techniques and media used, and how the elements of design are implemented.

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content

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refers to a work’s essence, or what is being depicted.

Question 14

detribalization

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to cause to lose tribal allegiances and customs, chiefly through contact with another culture.

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retribalization

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the act of forming or returning to a tribal group or division.

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technological determinism

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how existing technology changes and shapes humans

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social construction of technology

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how we shape existing technology

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utopian perspective

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impossibly ideal conditions especially of social organization.

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dystopian perspective

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often feels trapped and is struggling to escape.

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moral panic

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the process of arousing social concern

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domestication

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the processes by which innovations, especially new technology is ‘tamed’ or appropriated by its users.

Question 22

social shaping

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is the concept that there are choices’ (though not necessarily conscious choices) inherent in both the design of individual artifacts and systems, and in the direction or trajectory of innovation programs.”

Question 23

codex

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sheets of parchment paper sewn together alone one edge then bound with thin pieces of wood and covered in leather

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printing press

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invented by Johannes Gutenberg in germany. machine that helped print books faster

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illuminated manuscripts

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decorative colorful illustrations on each page and were often made for churches or wealthy clients

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dime novels

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paperback books sold for 5 or 10 cents each

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pulp fiction

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a reference to cheap machine made pulp paper dime novels

Question 28

rivalry

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A new medium competes w/ an old medium for attention, audiences have finite amounts of time for consuming media. Ex: Kids watching less TV, more video games.

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convergence

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2 (or more) old media come together to form a new media form. Ex: comic books/graphic novels.

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complimentary

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Old medium/new medium enter into a synergistic relationship where each feeds off of the other. Ex: Harry Potter books & films

Question 31

partisan

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biased news. sponsored by politicians, loves one group and praises them

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objective

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news that presents the facts without bias

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penny papers

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cheap, not serious, low culture papers, made int he thousands

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yellow journalism

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human interest stories, crime news, large headlines, was to digest

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citizen journalism

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activists and what not can turn into opinions and favorites

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echo chambers

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big networks that consciously cater to a certain group

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digital revenue

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money made by online services

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specialization

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the idea that magazines are made "special" to different groups of peoples

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muckraking

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when journalists dig deep to expose or uncover something or someone

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photojournalism

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use of photography to argue editorial content

Question 41

polarization

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refers to cases in which an individual's stance on a given issue, policy, or person is more likely to be strictly defined by their identification with a particular political party

Question 42

infinite demand

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an insistent and peremptory request indefinitely

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universality

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the quality of involving or being shared by all people or things in the world or in a particular group