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New Media Effects
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Communication
Undergraduate 4
01/26/2010

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Cool media
Definition
Requires brain to work to interpret.
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hot media
Definition
Natural. Does not require much work for brain to interpret. Ex Radio
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Flexible or inflexible.
Definition
the variety of messages that can be communicated through a certain format.
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Professional or amateur.
Definition
The amount of production value. Professional exemplifies these effects.
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disarming
Definition
gets pas your defenses. does not engage your critical mind.
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Unique and valuable.
Definition
To the audience. Genuine and special.
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open to interpretation.
Definition
Closed means what it means on surface. open is up to the recipient.
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Culturally consistent.
Definition
PSAs more likely to have an effect.
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Provovative.
Definition
more likely to ilicit an emotional reponse.
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Long term/short term audience.
Definition
The longer children watch a show, the more they get from it.
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Isolated/integrated.
Definition
With someone ore by yourself audience.
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Familiar or unfamiliar with produciton methods
Definition
more likely to pick up on effects.
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Interactive/ non-interactive
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Can the audience change the outcome.
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Centrally controlled media system
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Controlled by one or more agents.
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Politically influential.
Definition
Can have a variety of effects.
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Personal goals
Definition
Understanding. Orientation. Play
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Media Goals
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Profitability. political protection. Legitamacy. Business Stability.
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ambiguity
Definition
increses desire for understanding.
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Threat
Definition
Increses desire for orientation.
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Media Agenda
Definition
System Wide Agenda and individual outlet agenda.
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Personal agenda
Definition
collective and individual agendas
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when is agenda setting likely?
Definition
relevance to people. Presidential primary example.
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Issues are...
Definition
what to think about.
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attributes are...
Definition
how to think about issues.
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Issues
Definition
Healthcare, Lobbying...
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Attitude
Definition
General predisposition toward an option. positive or negative. the kind of thinking we do about something depends on out attitude towards it.
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Attitudes can be..
Definition
Unconscious or conscious.
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attitudes are...
Definition
relatively flexible beliefs.
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Mcguire believes...
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Attitude forming is a long, drawn out process and a waste of time. Manipulating input variables.
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Cognitive response theory
Definition
People approach things with their background and self motivated involvement.
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Valence
Definition
favorableness of a message. the higher, the more likely to elaborate.
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Extent
Definition
number of distinct thoughts that a message inspires.
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Thoughts have...
Definition
generally low confidence, they can be changed.
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The valence, confidence and extent of thoughts can..
Definition
be the basis for beliefs.
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Peripheral processing
Definition
Not thinking carefully abotu every message. Driving down road example.
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Central processing
Definition
Thinking more deeply and elaborating on a thought. Interest is very important.
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Accessibility
Definition
context or psychology: the thoughts that are at the top of our mind, tip of tongue. Available thoughts at the front of your mind. Attitudes are accesible.
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To promote central processing..
Definition
1. Make it relevant. Hit home, important to you.
2. Use questionable sources. They will question it!
3. shady people get other people to think!
4. Unexpected facts will spark elaboration and research.
5. Repetition.
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Stereotypiing is...
Definition
creation or reinforcement of simple representations of a group of people. usually inaccurate.
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exemplification
Definition
cognitive processing of stereotyping
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beliefes about reality are formed by...
Definition
exemplars. Pictures in our heads.
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Media choose...
Definition
Images according to criteria to engage CP and create exemplars.
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We encoutner only a (blank) in our lives.
Definition
Subset of the univers we choose to exemplify.
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Emamples learned
Definition
faster than abstractions. Retained longer and more easily called to memory.
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direct experience
Definition
is more personal and emotioanlly arousing.
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Peopel are
Definition
Poor calculators. Memory is biased by exemplars.
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Parameters are...
Definition
actual fact about a population that stats try to estimate.
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Exemplars dominate...
Definition
our memories of news stories.
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Priming is
Definition
associating one thing with another. Establishment of neural networks. Pizza example.
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Priming establishes
Definition
neural networks keeping certain thoughts acesible. Prepares us to think and act. Allows to store things then retrieve when it is appropriate.
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Neural networks:
Definition
Memory as concept nodes. connected in a variety of ways. Not always coherent.
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Collected beliefs about situations...
Definition
Mental nodes. they have more coherence and endure longer.
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Mental models can be
Definition
static or dynamic. they can accomodate new information.
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Role of advertising is to induce...
Definition
priming. audiences develop associations and expectations.
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Primed thoughts influence...
Definition
interpretation: what is going on. Other statements understood.
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