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| Print and electronic means of communication that carry messages to widespread audiences |
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| flow of content across multiple media and the accompanying migration of media audiences |
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| Functionalist View (media) |
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Socialize us
Enforce social norms
Confer status (make issues significant)
Promote consumption (supports economy, provides info) |
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| Narcotizing dysfunction (Functionalist) |
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| Phenomenon in which the media provide such massive amounts of information that audience becomes numb and fails to act on the information |
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| media reflect and exacerbate divisions of society and world; media monitoring (people's usage and choices) |
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| How material must travel through a series of checkpoints before reaching the public |
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| Digital divide (Conflict) |
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| Low-income groups, racial and ethnic minorities, rural residents, and citizens of developing countries have less access to latest technology |
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| Dominant ideology (Conflict) |
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| Set of cultural beliefs and practices that help maintain powerful social, economic, and political interests |
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| Unreliable generalization about all members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group |
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| share conflict theorists’ view that mass media stereotype and misrepresent social reality |
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| Interactionist View (media) |
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especially interested in shared understandings of everyday behavior; stereotypical views of gender
-->Rise of Internet facilitated new forms of communication and social interaction |
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| Someone who, through day-to-day personal contacts and communication, influences opinions and decisions of others |
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