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Media and Society
Chapter 3
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09/05/2006

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Agencies of socialization
Definition
Groups that contribute to an individual's behaviors, values, and roles.

Ex. Parents, School, Friends, Siblings, Mass Media, Personal Experience.
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Aggressive cues model
Definition
Likelyhood of people reacting negatively to violent content, group specific.

Ex. Women, Forgeiners
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Catharsis
Definition
The idea that being exposed to violence in the media gratifies people's innate aggressive drive and thus reduces it's manifestion in real life. Social cognitive theory disproved this notion.

Ex. Shooting people on TV will make you less likely to want to do it.
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Causality
Definition
Behaviors are caused by direct experience and systematic observation.
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Classical Conditioning
Definition
Responses are conditioned by experiences, and related stimuli create similar responses.

Ex. Dangers and injuries, distortions of natural forms
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Cocoon effect
Definition
Effect caused by surrounding ourselves with info and opinions that only we affirm.

Ex. Watching Tv that leans to our own views.
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Content analysis
Definition
Computing the proportion of certain words or context as a whole in TV programming to to discover what the content is perceived as.

Ex. 1994 four TV networks a 1.5 million dollar research project to analyze TV content, 10 network shows were found to be highly violent. Cable was found to have much greater levels of violence.
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Crystallization
Definition
Is the sharpening or exceptance of more neutral views.

Ex. If a person approaches a campaign from neutral ground, then crystallization is to occur.
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Dessensitization
Definition
Becoming more accepting of violence in our mist by being exposed to it often. Less trusting of nieghbors

Ex. video game violence
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Digital Divide
Definition
Gaps that remain between income, racial, and education groups due to internet access limits over a prolonged period.
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Ethnographic research
Definition
research adapted to specific ethnic cultures.

Ex. Lull 1982 conducted a 90 family observation of who controled the TV in the house. The father was claimed to have less power then was actually observed.
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Excitation Transfer
Definition
Provoked individuals exposed to explicit materials are more likely to engage in the behavior.

Ex. XXX is likely to cause arrousal and changes in attitude.
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Experimental research
Definition
Research with controlled variables, independant and dependant. Advantages are evidence of causality, Control, Low cost, replication of experiment is easy by other scientists. Disadvantages are artificiality, experimenter bias, and small pools making limited scope.
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Focus group
Definition
Group Interviewing, with moderator, to gather info for a research project, develop a questionaire for surveys, Understand a phenomenon.
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Four Factor syndrome
Definition
A sequential series of behaviors observed by a clinical psychologist of sex offenders, from long term exposure to porn. Addiction, escalation, desensitization, imiation.
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Hard News
Definition
Classified as reporting on an event that took place or publicized within a 24-hour period and addresses issues of ongoing concern.

Ex. Crisis news
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Soft News
Definition
News stories that don't bear specific immediate concern.
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Media Bashing
Definition
Pointing to harmful effects caused by the desensitizing of violent, sexual, and hate on our society, due to prolonged media coverage of it.
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Media effects
Definition
changes in cognitions, attitudes, emotions, or behavior, from exposure to mass media.
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Media impacts
Definition
the full spectrum of effects accompanying the various relationships identified between the media and society.
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Survey Research
Definition
Sample selections, questionnaires used to study environmental variables.
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Reactivity
Definition
The very process of being observed may influence a subject's conscious performance.
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Triangulation
Definition
Supplementing observational data with data gathered by other means

Ex. Questionaires or archived records with observations
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Stimulation Model
Definition
A direct causal relationship of violent content and aggressive behavior.
Term
Vicarious reinforcement
Definition
Observed reinforcement works the same as actual reinforcement.

Ex. Children seeing a video of scolding from behavior, will not exert that same behavior, for fear of the same scolding.
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Involvement
Definition
Refered to as the amount of control exercised over a medium by a user and the level of cognitive processing required for impact.

Ex. High involvement - print media, causes the user a full effort in absorbing the material.
Low Involvement - Broadcast, the user plays no role in the presentation speed. Does not require as much focus.
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Reinforcement
Definition
Strengthening or advocacy of present attitutes and opinions.
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Knowledge Gap hypothesis
Definition
Wealthy have more access to knowledge, poor have less.

Ex. Sesame Street was designed to close this gap.
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Advertising Wearout
Definition
Over exposure to advertising causing irritation, over targeted markets.
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