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Comm 101 UWO
Comm 101 Oshkosh
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Communication
Undergraduate 3
10/11/2011

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John Campbell
Definition
Published by authority
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James Franklin
Definition
The Hell-Raiser Club
Published without authority
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John Peter Zenger
Definition
Truth as defense for libel
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Benjamin day
Definition
Penny Press guy, New York Sun
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James Gordon Bennet
Definition
Perfects Penny Press
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Henry Raymond
Definition
Created NY Times *All the news that's fit to print*
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Joseph Pulitzer
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Yellow Journalist, "big bussiness", "turns away"
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William Randolph Hearst
Definition
San Fran Chronicle, sympathy for underdog, anti-big corp.
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Benjamin Franklin
Definition
Media Mogul, General Magazine
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Joseph Dennie
Definition
Early literary magazine, Portfolio
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Hertz
Definition
Early Inventor, Physicist
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Marconi
Definition
Father of Radio, Inventor
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KDKA
Definition
Frank Conrad, 1920, First commercial radio station. no advertisements, selling & creating radio stations
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Edward Murrow
Definition
"In London", WWII Radio
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Orson Welles
Definition
"Golden age" of radio, Hindenberg disaster, War of the Worlds
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Roget
Zworykin
Definition
Persistence of Vision
Tubes
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Famsworth
Sarnoff
Definition
Scanning
NBC 1939
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Process
Definition
No beginning, middle or end
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Structure
Definition
process goes on, (learning doesn't stop once this class is over, you remember things)
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Noise
Definition
whats been introduced into the signal that distorts the message being transmitted (white flakes, static)
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Gatekeeper
Definition
What is and isn't going to get through
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Feedback
Definition
delayed response from audience
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Fidelity
Definition
How accurately a device reproduces its affect (sound or picture)
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Denotative meaning
Definition
Dictionary meaning
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connotative meaning
Definition
personal meaning or something you have assosiated with another thing
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Whorfian hypothesis
Definition
language determines thought
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Paralinguistics
Definition
front size, style
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Proxemics
Definition
Communication by space, body space
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Haptics
Definition
Communication by touch
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Kinesics
Definition
Facial expressions, body gesture
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Vidistics
Definition
Grammar of Tv/film
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non-verbal communication
Definition
continuous, more universal, hard to control, always present
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Yellow journalism
Definition
Little to no research on content, use catchy headlines
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Sensationalism
Definition
taking emotional, dramatic, stories and playing it up to get people to read
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Muckrackin Era
Definition
Going after big business, fighting for the common man. *Standard oil = huge business
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DeWitt &Lila Wallace
Definition
Readers Digest
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Henry Luce
Definition
Time & Life
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Cyrus Curtiss
Definition
Ladies Home Journal
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Toll Broadcasting
Definition
AT&T - Long distance lines, pay to broadcast whatever you want, WEAF = First Advertising
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NBC Into
Definition
AT&T-NBC
RCA-ABC
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UIB into
Definition
CBS
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ComCast owns
Definition
NBC, MSNBC - bought from GE
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Viacom owns
Definition
CBS
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Disney owns
Definition
ABC
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Fox owned by
Definition
Rupert Murdock
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Freeze
Definition
FCC grants no additional TV licenses
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Sixth Order and Report
Definition
VHF continues (2-13)
UHF added (14-83)
Reserves 10% of channels for education
Adopts NBC, compatible color TV system
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UHF problems
Definition
Reception of signal
Strength of signal
Lack of programming
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UHF solution
Definition
Making TVs that could actually get signals with bigger broadcasting reception
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