media Flashcards
(43 cards)
Who argued that satellite and cable TV channels offer an appearance of choice but are actually homogeneous and repetitive?
McChesney (2000)
Who found that the number of media-controlling corporations in the USA dropped from 50 in 1983 to 22 in 1992?
Bagdikian (2004)
Who noted the concentration of ownership in British print media, historically and today?
Curran (2003)
Who used the term ‘technocratic managerial elite’ to describe those in control of media from a pluralist view?
Galbraith (1967)
Who argued that the media functions as an ideological state apparatus (ISA)?
Althusser (1971)
Who described the media as the new ‘opium of the people’?
Miliband (1973)
Who argued that the separation of interests between owners and controllers in media is more apparent than real?
Murdock and Golding (1977)
Who is associated with the Propaganda Model and the idea of the media using five filters to shape opinion?
Chomsky
Who used the terms hyper-reality and simulacra to describe media’s creation of its own reality?
Baudrillard
Who argued that ‘the media are the message’?
McLuhan and Powers (1992)
Who questioned the idea that the media ‘is the reality it represents’ and noted other influences like interpersonal relationships?
Strinati (1992)
Who first attempted to list ‘news values’?
Gultang and Ruge (1965)
Who argued that journalists offer a ‘preferred reading’ to guide audience interpretation?
Hall (1980)
Who studied the Mods and Rockers and argued media exaggeration created a moral panic?
Cohen (1972)
Who, with colleagues, argued that media and state created a moral panic around ‘mugging’ and scapegoated black youths?
Stuart Hall
Who contributed to Audience Reception Theory and discussed encoding and decoding of media messages?
Stuart Hall
Who studied women’s magazines’ influence on femininity and called it a socialisation into a ‘cult of femininity’?
Marjorie Ferguson (1983)
Who proposed digital liberation from new media via decentralisation, globalisation, harmonisation, and empowerment?
Negroponte (1995)
Who discussed ‘wikinomics’, the development of open economic systems using large creative pools?
Tapscott and Williams (2008)
Who suggested conglomeration in new media ownership decreases digital diversity?
Schecter (2000)
Who highlighted positive effects of new media on family relationships and noted that conflicts about screen time were more problematic than screen time itself?
Livingstone et al (2018)
Who discussed opportunities for identity exploration in virtual worlds such as Second Life and World of Warcraft?
Rajendran (2018)
Who researched Filipina migrant workers using new media to keep in touch with children?
Madianou and Miller (2011)
Who noted that cyberbullying is common in societies with high digital activity and worsened by social media anonymity?
Sittichai and Smith (2015)
