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Media Institutions
Riley Fall 09
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Undergraduate 3
09/21/2009

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Term
Millenials
Definition
born after 1980, free spending, tech saavy, optimistic, serious, short attention spans
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Media Literacy
Definition
having a knowledge of media history. legal and thical restrictions,
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Human Communication
Definition
Source --> Message --> Channel --> Receiver
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interpersonal communication
Definition
between or amongst individuals
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mediated communication
Definition
involves an interdisposed device as a medium
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Mass Communication
Definition
involves a large widespread audience
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Elitist Stage
Definition
when only a small amount of the nation can afford the media
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Popular Stage
Definition
nations population is better educated and more literate so it is more prosperous and it can appeal to a mass audience
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Specialized Stage
Definition
when a large part of a popualtion becomes more educated, affluent and urban.
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Cultural Imperialism
Definition
porduces resentment abroad but business firms in other nations now own many US media companies
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How many book US companies are foreign owned?
Definition
4 of 5
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Economies of Scale
Definition
as more units are produced, each costs less
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synergy
Definition
combinations of media types whereby the whole is hoped to be greater than the sum of its parts
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Cross Merchandising
Definition
one medium promoting the products or services of another having the same owner
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Group Ownership
Definition
ownership of multiple outlets of the same media
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Monopoly
Definition
one company dominates market
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Oligarchy
Definition
market controlled or dominated by a few companies
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Who were the four pioneers of communication?
Definition
Paul Lazarsfeld, Kurt Lewig, Carl Houland, Harold Laswell
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Types of Cultural Studies
Definition
Gender and Political
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Marxist Media Criticism
Definition
beleives that capitalism has made us too materialistic. Thinks that media have enabled that have to subjegate the have nots
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Conglomerate
Definition
big companies owning many types of businesses
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Vertical Integration
Definition
one company owning different parts of the same industry so they both distribute and produce (ex. newspapers buy papermill)
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Horizontal Integration
Definition
one company owning different kinds of businesses (newspaper buys radio and magazine)
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Combined Integration
Definition
company grows both horizontally and vertically
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What are the three reason cited for Media Concentration?
Definition
Economies of scale, synergy, and global competion
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What are the three reason cited for Media Concentration?
Definition
Economies of scale, synergy, and global competion
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Research and Scholarship are both meant to add onto existing knowledge
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Research is quantitative and scholarship is qualitative
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Denotative meaning
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Dictionary meaning
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Connotative Meaning
Definition
emotional value of the word
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Empirical Research
Definition
scientific efforts to examine facts in order to test theory
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Different Views of Media's violence's Effects
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1) Viewing Violence can cause aggression
2) People who are aggresive watch violent movies
3) Both aggression and viewing violent content depend on some other factors
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Powerful Effects Model
Definition
Media have strong effect on behavior
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Minimal Effects MOdal
Definition
Media has little effect on behavior
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Mixed Effects MOdel
Definition
some of both. sometimes one and sometimes the other
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Flow Theory : Bullet Theory
Definition
Media effects flow directly from sender to audience
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Flow Theory : Two Step Flow
Definition
media effectsgo from sender via opinion leaders in audience
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Flow Theory : Multi Step
Definition
media effects go from sender to audience via multiple or layered opinion leaders
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Social Learning Theory
Definition
we learn by observing others in media
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Individual Differences Theory
Definition
media affect different individuals in different ways
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Cultivation Theory
Definition
media both shape and distort our views of the world
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Agenda Setting Theory
Definition
media tells us what to attend and what to value
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Albert Bandura's Socialization Studies
Definition
when fed stereotypes, audience tend to accept them
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Parts of the Individual Different Theory
Definition
Innovators
Early Adopters
Early Majority
Later Majority
Laggards
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Uses and Gratification Theory
Definition
we pick our media by our need (i.e. news, conversation)
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Oral Culture
Definition
news and other information passed by word of mouth and preserved in memory, song and ritual
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Early Materials for Book Publication
Definition
papyrus, parchment
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Most early books were in Latin
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Term
The first printing press was from China around 1220 AD and they used movable type from wood.
Definition
Guttenberg made his in 1450
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Incunabula
Definition
Earliest books
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Four Big Changes of the Industrial Revolution
Definition
news paper-making system
steam powered rotary press
linotype for setting type
lithography
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Chapbooks
Definition
cheaply made paperbacks about American history
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Dime Novels
Definition
10 cent, cheaply made books that were popular with Civil war soldiers
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5 Types of Book Publishers
Definition
major, university, small, vanity, online
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Three Types of Book Editors
Definition
Aqquisition: person you talk to first and looks at manuscripts
Development: helps with story and proofs
Copy EditorL grammar
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Six types of Books
Definition
trade books: general public
textbooks : students
scholarly: advanced scholars
reference: dictionaries
professional : ones for trade or occupation
speciality books: yearbooks?
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Public Journalism
Definition
the idea that newspapers should not just report what happens but should take part in brining about events
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First American Comic Feature?
Definition
The Yellow Kid
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tabloid
Definition
a paper of small page sizes
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partisian Press
Definition
early newspapers aligned with politcal parties
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Stamp Act
Definition
English tax of one penny for every copy of a newspaper printed
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Editorial Page
Definition
devoted to opinion, not straight news
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Hard News
Definition
reporting on financial, poltiics
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Soft News
Definition
features
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Penny Press
Definition
papers sold on streets for one penny rather than by subscription
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Yellow Journalism
Definition
sensationalized journalism , use of illustration, more crime, more investigative in the 1890s
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jazz Journalism
Definition
sensationalized journalism of the 1920s, big decade of tabloid newspapers
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Four Types of Newspapers
Definition
National dailies
Local Dailies
Weeklies
Foreign Language
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Pulp
Definition
a low quality magazine printed on low quality paper about celebrities, or romance
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digests
Definition
magazines that print short versions of articles that have first appeared somewhere else.
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special interest magazine
Definition
aimed at niche markets
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consumer magazine
Definition
read just for pleasure
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trade magazine
Definition
information about certain fields
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little magazines
Definition
literary magazines
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pass-along circulation
Definition
how many people other than the subscription buyer read the magazine
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