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| Print, Video, Internet, TV, RAdio |
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| Mass Media characteristics |
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Ability to reach a large amount of people simultaneously, requiring use of technology to transmit a message to people.
1-way communication.
Audience has great deal/choice.
Aim message to attract biggest audience possible.
Influence society and shapes them.
Reaches a large/vast audeince. |
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High definition
Doesn't leave much to be filled in or completed by the audience
Low audience participation (you take it all in the way its presented)
entertainment purposes
examples: tv, radio |
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low definition
provides little info so consumers have to form their own opinions and actively fill in info to understand the message
examples: books, newspapers, telephone |
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Wrote "the media is the message"
if the content is obliterated by the channel, "what" we say is of little importance- only "how" we choose to deliver it.
makes you think about media as media itself, not as content
Hot/cool media |
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| two models of communication |
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What does media do to us?
SMCR (sender-message-channel-receiver)
starts from a source
assumption of "direct effect" (you'll go buy an item immediately after viewing commercial) -who says what -to whom -through which channel - with what effect |
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It's what we do with the messages we receive, our choice.
meaning it is what you do with a message not culture aiding the message
constructed of shared meaning among people
provides a common picture of reality
media provide us largest source of info that creates shared reality
interpreted message by people based on a shared reality.
no such thing as THE reality; only our shared reality
No such thing as a real news story or false opinion (all fiction) |
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Standardized conception or image of a specific group of people or objects
"mental cookie cutters"--they force a simple pattern upon a complex mass and assign a limited number of characteristics to all members of a group |
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| Characteristics of Sterotypes |
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More simple than reality
Acquired secondhand; people acquire (and absorb) stereotypes from cultural mediators rather than from their own direct experience with the groups being stereotyped
all stereotypes are false
our way of ascribing meaning to other people, events, cultures that we don't know anything about (filling in the gap) |
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| Presidential military order |
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Gives the president power to detain non-citizens suspected of terrorism
person can be held w/o charges being filed, w/o a court hearing, and this person is not entitled to a legal consultant
"enemy combatants" term given to those held under military order |
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| base in cuba where detainees are held for suspicion of terrorists acts holding them w/o habeus corpus from around the world. us calimed detainees not entitled to protection of geneva convention |
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| article 1 section 9 of us constitution |
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| writ of habeas corups shall not be suspended unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safty may require it" |
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| detainees can challenge their sentence for unlawful imprisonment. presioners can file a petition against their current sentence and/or be released from custody. most efficient safeguard of the liberty of the subject when filing a petition |
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| suspension of habeas corpus |
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| suspended twice by lincoln and grant |
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| geneva conventions or us constitution |
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international laws that are supposed to protect civiilian detainees at time of war under the 4th convention for the guantanamo bay circumstances. us admin argues for aid of the convention and argues violation of us law. the Bush administration tried to argue that the detainees were
not actual prisoners of war, and therefore could not protected by the Geneva Convention. |
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a person can't be tried for the same offense twice (double jeopardy); nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use w/o just compensation.
department of defense issued an internal memo stating that prisoners will in the futre be entitled to protection under the geneva convention. |
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