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COM 275 exam 2
Effects of Mass Communication
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Undergraduate 1
03/02/2009

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Term
Ritualized Use
Definition

PASSIVE recipient!

-People are effected by the media they use

(use the media out of habit)

-Typically emotional

(audience as a mass is passive)

 

Term

Instrumental Use

Definition

ACTIVE user!

-People choose the media they use for their own purposes

(use media for a reason)

-Typically informational

Term
Social Groups or Public
Definition

source=society

level=macro

-pre existing audience group based on a common interest seeks out media to satisfy interest

-demand comes from society level subgroups such as...

political (Rush Limbaugh)

religious (700 Club)

regional (Fox Sports Detroit)

professional or social networks (Big Ten Network)

Term

Source driving content creation...

         Societal Demand             Media Innovation

 

 Macro        social group or public        medium or channel     

(public)                                                audience

 

   Micro          gratification set          audience for particular

(individual)                                              medium

Definition

Macro/Micro Chart

Term
Medium or Channel Audience
Definition

source=media

level=macro

  • medium identification becomes part of identity and forms a group.
  • groups that emerge around a new technology.
Term
examples of Media or Channel Audience
Definition
  • E-Bay Groups
  • On-Line Gamers
  • Science Fiction Junkies
Term
Audience for Particular Media
Definition

source-media

level=micro

  • fans and fandom
  • often mimic star pattern in dress, speech, consumption
  • individuals rather than groups.
Term
examples of Audience for Particular Medium
Definition
  • Programs (Grey's Anatomy, Star Trek, Madden)
  • Celebrities (Britney Spears, Slayer, Tom Cruise)
  • Chris Krocker
Term
Gratification Set
Definition

source=society

level=micro

  • individuals choose media to solve pre-existing needs.
  • media content caters to individual's felt need.
Term
examples of Gratification Set
Definition
  • Information (news)
  • Social Connection (facebook)
  • Emotional Regulation (loud music)
Term
Television Uses and Gratifications
Definition
  • Learning
  • Habit
  • Companionship
  • Arousal
  • Relaxation
  • Escape
  • Passing Time
Term
Video Games Uses and Gratifications
Definition
  • Challenge
  • Competition
  • Arousal
  • Diversion
  • Fantasy
  • Social Interaction
Term
How are Television and Video Games uses and gratifications Similar?
Definition
  • Social Interaction
  • Passing Time
  • Arousal
Term
How are Television and Video Games uses and gratifictaions Different?
Definition
  • Television is used for learning
  • Video Games are used for competion, challenge, and fantasy.
Term

active audience

Definition

-selection or use of the media is

  • goal directed
  • purposive
  • motivated

(assumption)

Term

media use for gratification

Definition

-conscious or unconscious

-cognitive, emotional, or social

 

 

 

 

 

(assumption)

Term

social and psychological factors

Definition

-social interactions

-personal experience

-other media use

 

 

 

 

(assumption)

Term

competition and mediation

Definition

-other things may satisfy our needs better

 

 

 

 

 

 

(assumption)

Term

1. Active Audience

2. Media  use for Gratification

3. social and psychological factors

4. competition and mediation

 

Definition

The Four Assumptions of Uses and Gratifications

Term
IMITATION
Definition
Basic idea of Social Learning is...
Term

Attention-Choosing the model

Retention-Remembering the action

Production-Doing the action

Motivation-Reinforcement

Definition
The steps in Social Cognitive Theory
Term

It is a neo-associative network model of the mind.

 

Definition
The basic idea behind priming is that...
Term
  • Memory consists of memory codes and the most common codes are made up of nodes and links.
  • Memory is associative.
  • Nodes are linked together which is why we recall things.
Definition
How is memory conceived in priming and what is it made of?
Term

Social Cognitive Theory

Definition
Theory that suggests that some of the most important models in today's world are found in media sources.
Term
Social Cognitive Theory
Definition
Studies media vilolence in children.
Term

neo-associative network

Definition

 

a complex network of pathways that connect associative ideas, thoughts, feelings and concepts.

Term
 activation.
Definition
How are links built and maintained?
Term

Catharsis

Definition

 

Theory developed...From Aristotle's idea that inaccessible human emotions can be experienced via drama

Term

Catharsis

Definition

 

Theory that says...Viewing violence reduces aggressive feelings by symbollically discharging violent tendencies.

Term

Desensitization

Definition

 

Theory that says...Repeated exposure to violence in media can numb viewers to the consequences of violence.

Term

Desensitization

Definition
Theory that says...Viewers are more likely to engage in aggressive behavior and allow aggressive behavior to go on without helping.
Term
Arousal
Definition
a non-specific drive state
Term

Arousal

Definition
Theory that says...The viewer acts as if they would normally, except more intensely
Term

How agression is measured.

 

Definition

Behavioral

-noise blasts, time to seek help, rating RA

Attitudinal

-paper and pen-do you think violence is a good idea, story completions

State Measures

-paper and pen-MAACL, hostility measures, semantic differential scales

Term
Media Watchdogs
Definition

Players involved in the media violence debate.

Term

Media Watchdogs

Definition

Believe that portrayals of violence in media are harmful to society.

Term
organizations of media watchdogs
Definition

religious groups

professional groups(AMA,APA)

parent groups(PTA)

some media researchers

Term
self appointed watchdogs
Definition

David Grossman

Media Wise

Term
Media Watchdogs
Definition
Want media violence regulated an/or eliminated.
Term

The Government's Response

The Industry's Fear

The Courts

Definition
Issues involved in the media violence debate
Term
The Government's Response to the media violence debate
Definition
Television and film producers have been sued for violent content.
Term
The Government's Response to the media violence debate
Definition
several states have sought to eneact laws making the sale of violent video games to minors illegal.
Term
Missouri, Indiana, Washington, Michigan, California, Illinois, Florida
Definition
States that have sought to enact laws making the sale of violent video games to minors illegal
Term
Industry Fear
Definition
If media are deemed illegal for use by minors than Walmart and other huge retailors will not carry the media. Walmart will pressure the companies to change the media.
Term
Industry Fear
Definition
There will be a chilling effect on content.
Term
Industry Fear
Definition
Media producers will not want to risk producing certain media because of Walmart.
Term
The Courts
Definition
Questions such as are the media prootected speech, are the media harmful to society, are the media worse than the other forms of protected media are raised when discussing which issue related to the media violence debate?
Term

solutions to the media violence problem

 

Definition

Voluntary ratings systems

-MPAA, ESRB, 'explicit lyrics' labels, TV Ratings

V chips

Cable Locks

Safe Harbors

Term
research
Definition
sexually explicit materials
Term
industry
Definition
pornography
Term

courts

Definition
obscenity
Term

75%

 

 

5 sex acts

Definition
What percent of music videos conatin sex and on average, how many sexual acts are performed in each?
Term

56%

 

 

 

23%

Definition
What percent of television have sexual content and what percent have sexual behaviors?
Term
32 to 1
Definition
What is the ratio of unmarried people having sex to married people?
Term
17.5
Definition

On average how many sexual acts are performed in an R rated movie?

Term
Major themes in Porno Magazines
Definition
Themes that appeal to men are usually...
Term

Major themes in porno movies

Definition

reciprocity (37%)

domination/control (28%)

exploitation/coersion (26%)

autoeroticism (9%)

Term
Effects of exposure to highly explicit sexual content
Definition

arousal transfer

desensitization to sexual images

cultivation/attitude change

deviant sexual behaviors more normal

sexual desire stronger

partned becomes less attractive

belief that rape victims are more deserving

Term
effects of sexually violent media
Definition

the perceptions that slasher films are not degrading to women, enjoyable, less offensive, less violent, and that violence against women is not bad are...

Term

more likely to become aroused

Cline's Four Factor System

Definition
effect of porn on sexual offenders
Term

Addiction

Escalation

Desensitization

Illegal Behavior

Definition
Cline's Four Factor System
Term
hard news
Definition

personalized news

(what's going on in society)

Term
hard news
Definition
controversial news
Term
hard news
Definition
actual or concrete news
Term
hard news
Definition

novel or deviant news

(new or different)

Term
hard news
Definition
linked to ongoing news concerns
Term
hard news
Definition
inoffensive, credible, packageable, local news
Term
crisis news
Definition

a subset of hard news

(generally part of hard news)

Term
crisis news
Definition
natural or man-made threat that poses an immediate and serious threat
Term
news
Definition

keeps people aware of an event and galvanizes social attitudes

Term
soft news
Definition
focuses on human interest and personalities
Term
soft news
Definition
fastest growing facet of news
Term

1. when news is an important or high impact event-rapidly

2. the timing of the release of the news-where people are determines how they find out

3. audience demographics

Definition
3 factors effecting speed of news diffusion
Term

micro knowledge gap hypothesis

Definition

 

Better educated people usually hold jobs of higher status than less-educated people,and they tend to be better informed anout current events knowledge related through the news media, whether print pr broadcast.

Term
the information rich keep getting richer, and the information poor never catch up
Definition
Micro knowledge gap posits that...
Term
macro knowledge gap
Definition

News media is a condult between major societal structures

(role of media is to facilitate communication between Government Industry and Eductaion)

Term
Agenda Setting Theory
Definition
Theory that claims..."Media may not be successful in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling readers what to think about."
Term
Agenda Setting Theory
Definition
Theory with the hypothesis: People's agenda of news importance will match media agenda of news importance.
Term
gatekeeping
Definition
the editorial process by which news and information is selected (or not) for publication
Term
agenda building
Definition

Consists of PR Funtion and News Values

Term
PR Function
Definition

high percentage of 'news'

compete to focus attention on particular issues

 

Term
news values
Definition

timliness (event happened recently)

proximity

prominence

consequence

human interest

Term
issues
Definition
ongoing topics of national or local interest covered in the news
Term
events
Definition
discrete happenings in time
Term

institution process analysis

message analysis

cultivation analysis

Definition
3 parts of the cultural indicators project
Term
ritualistic gratification
Definition

habitual and time consuming

-focus on medium

-diffuse motives (pass time, relaxation, habit)

-less intentional and non-selective

-heavier viewing patterns

Term
instrumental gratifications
Definition

active use of media for entertainment or information

-focus on specific content

-information motivations

-higher perceived realism and attention

Term
mainstreaming
Definition

over time heavy viewing may diminish differences among viewers

(political/religion, urban/rural, white collar.blue collar, etc.)

Term
resonance
Definition
effect of cultivation is magnified when real world experiences match television messages
Term
cultivation
Definition

TV has replaced religion as a social story teller

TV portrays a restricted and inaccurate view of the world

Term
cultivation
Definition

Heavy TV viewers learn the lessons of TV

Heavy viewers begin to see the real world as being like the TV world

Term
at the most 16%
Definition
relative percent of black people in the media
Term
3%
Definition
relative percent of latinos in media
Term
1%
Definition
relative percent of asians in the media
Term
less than 1%
Definition
relative percent of native americans in the media
Term

Stage 1

Definition

What stage in minority portrayal?

exclusion of any minority portrayals from particular group

Term
stage 3
Definition

What stage in minority portrayal?

minority characters appear as police officers or detectives-regulators of the existing state of society

Term
stage 2
Definition

What stage in minority portrayal?

minority character portrayed as a buffoon or stereotypically

Term
stage 4
Definition

What stage in minority portrayal?

minority characters may appear as good guys or bad guys-the entire range of roles is open to them

Term
5 portrayal elements that create a high risk for learning aggressive behaviors
Definition

1.perpetrator is an attractive role model

 2.violence seems justified

3.violence goes unpunished

4.consequences to the victims are minimal

5.violence seems realistic to the viewer

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