Unit 6

• Meidalandscape


  The forms of media precent in a certain context
• Legacy media


  Forms of media that have origins in the distant past
• New media


  Forms of media that have emerged more recently
• Net neutrality


  A principal of equality and detachment with respect to hoe information on the internet is treated by network providers
• Conglomerate


  A corporation made up if several different widely diversified companies
• Monopoly


  A company that has exclusive controle over a particular product or service
• Prosumers


  People act as both customers and producers within the same setting
• Stereotypes


  An overgeneralziation about a group, often based of assumptions
• Media literacy


  The ability to recognize, critically asses, and make informed choices about the message contained in mass media forms
• Reach business 


  A form of new media like youtube in which users are able to expose themselves to a vast number of views
• Categorization


  A for of framing that refers to the overall framework used to label an event by the media
• Sizing


  One of the properties in media framing that is based on the overall importance of the event in the overall flow of the news, or how much or little attention it gets
• Desensitization


  A theory that proposes that repeated exposure to violence lessons its emotional and physiological impact
• Augmented reality


  AN enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being views through a device
• Manufactured consent 


  A term put forth by Herman and Chomsky based on the idea that media concentration encourages the diffusion of propaganda
• Agenda setting


  refers to the argument that the media are more successful in telling people what to think about than in telling its audience what to think
• Identification


  One of the properties in media framing that involves the use of words that encourage or discourage association or a connection with the central figures in the news story
• Crown


  According to interactionist theorist, _____ is intertwined with media, which is evident in the increasing popularity of things like in app purchasing
• Propaganda


  A type of model within conflict theory in which the role of mass media is to ush a particular agenda, that of corporate elite
• Social learning


  A theory based in the premise that people learn by observing the behaviours of others and then go on to copy that behaviour
• Cultivation


  A theory that maintains that violence has a cumulative effect on people, which causes us to adopt a mean world syndrome
• Generalization


  A property in media framing based on the extent to which a media story is connected to a larger political system or issue
• Bitcoins


  A for of digital current mined on the internet and later exchanged for the goods and services
• Agency


  A form of framing that represents the inclusion of particularwords that suggest where responsibility for an event lies