REPRESENTATION KEY WORDS

Question 1

What is representation in the News?

Answer 1

• How people, events, issues are constructed in the media (via framing, anchorage etc)

Question 2

Mediation?

Answer 2

• The process a text goes through before it reaches audiences. (selection, editing etc)

Question 3

Anchorage?

Answer 3

• text that accompanies an image (for contextualision)

Question 4

News values?

Answer 4

• Guidelines used to identify which news stories are the most newsworthy, and appealing to audiences.

Question 5

Which theorists identified list of news values?

Answer 5

• Galtung and Ruge (1973)

Question 6

Free press?

Answer 6

• A news industry that isn’t restricted/censored by the goverment in their opinions or political beliefs.

Question 7

Fourth Estate?

Answer 7

• Refers to the role of the news in informing the public and holding the powerful accountable to safeguard democracy.

Question 8

Homogenous news

Answer 8

• When newspaper offer similar opinions on the news
  = which reinforces dominate cultural ideas.

Question 9

Media plurality?

Answer 9

• Having different newspapers, TV channels, and online news platforms (BBC, The Guardian) to provide a variety of perspectives.