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Mass Communication
chapters 16-20
27
Internet/New Media
Undergraduate 1
12/09/2009

Additional Internet/New Media Flashcards

 


 

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Term
Duty to Self
Definition

  • self preservation
  • safety
  • wined and dined 

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Duty to Audience
Definition

  • what the audience wants
  • violence in humor
  • at whose expense?

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Observational Learning
Definition

  • the theory that people learn behavior by seeing it in real life depictions

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Cathartic Effect
Definition

  • saying violence in the media has no harm because seeing it on TV means it won't happen in real life

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Catalytic Theory
Definition

  • says that if you see it on TV, it will be mirrored onto real life

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Aggressive Stimulation
Definition

  • theory that people are inspired to violence by media depictions

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Timeliness in Media
Definition

  • be timely and accurate 

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Code of Ethics
Definition

 

  • statement that defines acceptable, unacceptable behavior
  • earliest adopted by Cannons of Journalism of the American Society of Newspaper editors in 1923

 

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Intellectual Property
Definition

 

  • creative works
  • products produced by mass media companies

 

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Copyright 
Definition

 

  • protects the ownership rights of creative works, including books, articles, lyrics

 

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Permissions
Definition

 

  • grant of rights for a 2nd party to use copyright protected information

 

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George Gerbner
Definition

 

  • speculated that democracy is endangered by media violence

 

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First Amendment
Definition

  • congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech and the press

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Equal-time Rule
Definition

  • government required stations to offer competing political candidates the same time period for the same rate of advertising

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Media Attention
Definition

  • definition of status conferral

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Agenda Setting
Definition

  • media tell people what to think about not what to think

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Negative Advertsing
Definition
a political campaign advertisement usually on TV in which a candidate criticizes the opponent rather than emphasizing his or her own platform (mudslinging)
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CNN
Definition

 

  • 1976

 

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Authoritarianism
Definition
top down governance, such as monarchy or dictatorship
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Libertarian
Definition
basis of democratic governance 
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Cultural Dominance
Definition
part of the definition of cultural imperialism which is one culture's over another dominance 
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Herbert Schiller
Definition
western culture flooding the planet
Term
desensitizing theory
Definition
tolerance of real life violence grows because of how the media depicts violence
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Wilbur Schramm
Definition
concluded that tv has minimal effects on children
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Ethics
Definition
the moral basis we use to resolve dilemmas
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Aristotle Theory
Definition

  • defended portrayals of violence
  • believed that watching violence allowed individuals to vicariously release pent up everyday frustration that might otherwise explode dangerously

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