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Communications 101 Final Terms
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Undergraduate 1
04/25/2011

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Public Domain
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Fair Use
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Digital Rights Management
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GirlTalk
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Public Sphere
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Copyright
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Purpose of Original Copyright laws
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Lawrence Lessig
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Marketplace of Ideas
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Music as a tool of social control
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Music as a site of resistance/revolution
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Artists want to get paid for music, people want it free; debate over copyrights
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Mass culture
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No space for innovation/originality
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Culture Industries
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Urban Blues Queens
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1920s: draws attention to experiences of working-class African-American women through mass culture to the world; themes of dislocation, hardship, longing, desire; opposite of Girl Groups
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60s Girl Groups
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purely $$$ motivated; strength found in lyrics; young multi-racial audience;
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Punk
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70s movement in response to economic situations for working-class youth in Britain; collectivism --> individualism; musical and fashion rebellion
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Representation
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assigning of meaning through language and in culture
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Language
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Culture
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Representation & Reality
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makes sense of the world, but also constructs it; does not reflect reality
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Framing
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Difference
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differences make meaning
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Classification
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putting people into differences; expectations
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Essentialization
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Hierarchy
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unequal; feature of the group is the cause of the groups position
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Naturalization
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The Gaze
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How women should be looked at; How women invite you to look; Body cut-ups
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Semiotics
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study of signs and symbols
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Denotation
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Connotation
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Langue/Parole
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Langue- shared meanings
Parole- individual meaning, meaning can shift
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Encoding/Decoding
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Encode- makes meaning
Decode- understand meaning
Implies there is a clear-cut meaning but it doesn't exist
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Material effects of representation
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"Chicago fans"
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Feminism
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rights for women
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Femininity
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social expectations of women
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Truth value
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how much of a statement is true; journalism
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Type v. Stereotype
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Type exists; Stereotype adds judgment
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Representation and identity
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gain identity through representation
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Representation and nationality
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build-up on "who's in, and who's out"; what is the norm, what is not
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Orientalism
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Justified colonialism; traces still remain
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Subjects v. Objects
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subjects- have power to describe/ascribe social position; they have power
objects- consume; look at; use as accessory
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Objectification
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making someone an object; who is doing the looking and for whom is it being produced?
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Base
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Economy and institution
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Superstructure
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Religion & Culture
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False Consciousness
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ruling class = ruling ideas; keeps inequality in favor of those in power
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Hegemony
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How those in power, stay in power
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Consent
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How people accept social relations/ social standings
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Common Sense
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unquestioned norms and assumptions in everyday life; its changing and violated (gay people holding hands & women do things outside of the house)
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Gramsci
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model of power; consent & contest social relations; hegemony; common sense
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Althusser
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how people are conditioned to behave; either institutions force or persuade people how to behave
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Foucault
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power operates through discourse; knowledge; surveillance; subject positions; how people are disciplined
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Discourse
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ongoing process by which knowledge and culture (behavior) are constantly created and adjusted and it reflects the current power structure; how you and I know how to act in society and how we can make them act in a certain way
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Power as productive, circulating
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power is not longer (top-down) but passes through us and circulates through society; discourse doesn't go away after influence, it produces behaviors real things
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Power/knowledge
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not only is knowledge in power, but power decides how knowledge is used; power makes knowledge "true"
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Discursive formation
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how discourse is formed; all related way s in which given set of ideas and meanings is constructed, subjects positioned
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Regime of truth
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Subject position
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discourse creates the roles and what rules are made for those roles and what consequences you have for breaking those rules
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Anti-feminism
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Fragmented subjectivity
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multiple identities in conflict with each other (Asian men)
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Feminine Mystique
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stereotypes of women in the media
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Biology destiny
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women are meant to bear children and take care of them
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Maternal instinct
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nuturing, passive, and inherently domestic
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Women portrayal (50s-90s)
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Virgin/whore binary
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One is good for home, one is not. Cannot be both.
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Symbolic annihilation
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the systematic underrepresentation of a particular group or groups and/or media representations that favor stereotypes and omit realistic portrayals
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the gaze
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men are active; women are passive
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women's bodies in advertising
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used to sell products
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Surveillance of women's bodies
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body image is crucial for women, they must keep their bodies under surveillance
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Girliness
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Celebrates and mocks girliness
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Embedded feminism
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feminism gains attitudes and achievements are woven into our culture fabric
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Enlightened sexism
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resurrects sexist stereotypes of women because "it's okay, because equality has been achieved"
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Post-feminism
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ideology that insists feminism's goals have been achieved; thus feminism is done, focus on other things
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Image v. image of representation of women in the media
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Mixed messages
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struggle in the media between embedded feminism and enlightened sexism
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What defines success for women?
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Hegemonic masculinity
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aggressive; ability to kill; self-reliant; resilient; emotionless; power over women; guardians
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1980s men
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New age guy; sensitive
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1990s
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Gay men were more accepted; on TV; but still stereotyped; rise of metro-sexual; "LAD" masculinity = boys will be boys
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Hypermasculinity
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Extreme example of hegemonic masculinity; lone fighter; do anything to make it through
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Metrosexual
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New guy who cares about what they look like; cares about fashion
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Race
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not a category of nature; ideology through which inequality is produced and maintained
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Racism
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idea that outward differences indicate inner differences
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Minstrelsy
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Jim Crow
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Jim Dandy
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Role of music
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Jazz entered the mainstream music media, but still seen as more free and no rules
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Uses of stereotypes
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Racial formation
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process of assigning meaning to racial differences and constructing racial categories
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Racial project
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mode of explaining social differences using racial ideas to justify inequality (unequal access to resources)
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Struggle for Blackness
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struggle over who gets to identify black people and culture; whites stereotyping black culture that have challenged racism and produced cultural forms that whites have loved and adopted
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Representation and containment
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How do representations contain/limit threats represented by a minority identity
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dimensions on which stereotypes operate
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Whiteness
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the standard against which other races are compared to; self-controlled, disciplined, ambitious, rational, intelligent
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Racial Comity
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want for racial harmony
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Racial hostility
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Racial segregation
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Role of media
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Entman & Rojecki say that media portrayals of Racial comity/hostility affect racial attitudes
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Intersectionality
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(Crenshaw & Kimberely) discourses of race, gender, & class intersect in influencing and shaping peoples' positions and social outcomes
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Media representations of class
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Showing the "American Dream"; middle class and white color represented well; blue collar/working class severely underrepresented; when poor is portrayed, it shows them gaining upward mobility
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Markers of class membership
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Invisibility
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Sexuality
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neither gender nor sexuality are not characterless; there is a continuum of behaviors and patterns; society tries to order them into male/female, straight/gay, to control and police their desires
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Queerness
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How have LGBT been represented in the media?
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no portrayal of queer sex or affection, always given design jobs, paired with straight people
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Why do representations change?
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Changing society; capitalism = new markets; niche marketing; audience segmentation
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Citizenship
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How does discourse over race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, age affect how you are treated as a citizen; are you given social political, cultural, and legal freedom? full rights?
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The importance of news
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In democracy the people govern, so people need accurate and reliable information; give topics of discussion in the public sphere
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The Press
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actual product of the news, and the people who get it, make it, produce it, and own the outlets
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The Fourth Estate
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watchdog
check and balances to help keep govt honest and serving the public
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The ideal of objectivity
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the want and importance of being objective in reporting news and being unbiased; but realistically it is unattainable
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Issue dualism
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there are two sides to a story in the news; but in reality there are more than two sides
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"all news is views"
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everything is biased; nothing can be perfectly unbiased
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Origins of news
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started as business and political, but developed overtime
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Partisan era
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primarily political or opinion news; only rich got the news
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Penny Press
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News was cheap, therefore more accessible; a bigger market was achieved; focused on events rather than opinion; became a commodity, no longer just for general good; emphasis on speed and attention = competition
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The "scoop"
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whoever got "the scoop" got the news first
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News agencies
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associated press, 1848;
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Commercial Era
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Era of competition among news business; yellow journalism = downplays legit news for eye-catching news
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Objective Era
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journalism schools to teach ideals; reliable content; people trusted media; journals had more power and presented more professional news
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Pulitzer
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promoted good journalism; Pulitzer prize
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News Analysis
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deeper of analysis of news; not only this happened but what does this mean; it's bad because it sways opinions
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Fragmented Era
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more news outlets; different views on news; little agreement on different facts and interpretations
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News values
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1. newness
2. threshold, if it affects more people you should cover it
3. proximity
4. negativity
5. predictability
6. continuity
7. composition, whats on the cover
8. personalization
9. entertainment
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Newsworthiness
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impact on nation or large number of people; significance on past or future; novelty (if it is new); TV - if it has a lot of images and pictures
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News peg
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recent event or public official's statement which is used as a handle on which to hang other related stories; something that happened to enhance the story
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News hole
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Advertisement first, left over space for news stories
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Why do we get the news we do?
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news values with a bias towards conflict, agendas of public officials, journalistic ambitions, ratings, profit pressures, press release, entertainment values, pressures from advertisers, censorship, time/technological/economic constraints, news routines
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Official sources
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members of Congress, presidential aides, people with the insides of politics, relationships with people who an provide sources of news
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