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Journalism 101
Shoemaker Final
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Journalism
Undergraduate 1
12/14/2008

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Functions of Mass Media
Definition

Surveillance, socialization, diversion

 

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Mass Media Technological Foundations
Definition
Print, Chemical, and Digital
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Characteristic of Mass Media
Definition
Pervasiveness, Information Source, Entertainment Source, Forum of Persuasion
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Intrapersonal Communication

Definition

talking to oneself, developing thoughts and ideas

*dear diary*

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Interpersonal communication
Definition

conversation between two people *face to face*

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Mass communication models
Definition
models that help us understand the communication process
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Basic model
Definition
sender, encoding, transmission, decoding, receiver
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Narrative Model
Definition

description of process in words - not schematic

who says what?  In which channel?  To whom? With what effect

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concentric circle model
Definition
useful radiating model of the mass communication process
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status conferral
Definition
when the media covers an issue, person, or event gives said object status
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news coverage criteria
Definition
uniqueness, information importance, timliness, proximity
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two-step model
Definition
media effects on individuals are through opinion leaders
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Gerbner studies
Definition
speculated that democracy is endangered by media violence - determined that there is no conncection between violence and media
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McLuhan's research
Definition
He predicted bringing back tribalization, it engages the mind and the senses, called the new global village = instant connection to every human being
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Fourth Estate

Definition

by Edmund burke

Clergy, nobility and commoners

Printing press introduced estate and it plays a watch dog role

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CNN effect
Definition

24 hr news

when you have visuals and sound its much more effective than print alone

-it's one thing to read about people starving, but another to actually see in in color, sound and live

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The Four Estates

Definition
executive, judicial, legislative, media watchdog role
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Agenda Setting
Definition

the idea of mass media setting a schedule

creating awareness, establishing priorities, perpetuating issues

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Sound Bites
Definition
getting smaller, less information, impacts
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Fair and Balanced
Definition
bias media, doesn't mean that we give everyone equal coverage, jus that they get fair coverage according to the situation
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Elitist Media
Definition

national geographic, Christian science monitor

(academic publication)

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Populist Media
Definition

tabloids

(popular publications)

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Framing

Definition

reporter bias

-defining issues-framework of how we judge a particular issue

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desensitizing theory
Definition
not sensitive to real violence
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uses and gratifications
Definition
how people use the media to satisfy needs
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Hypodermic needle model
Definition
oval model, through the media I can control your thought processes - still works in military, basic training, what you see, read and hear
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Public Broadcasting Act of 1967
Definition
Notion that set up all the public broadcasting programs that are funded by the government and donations, do not depend on advertising
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Communications noise
Definition
example would be years between the professor and students, or hunger language barriers
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speculation

Definition

publisher initiatives

-give money to famous people who have done significant things to write a book about it

Michael Phelps should

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royalties
Definition
authors share the books income
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royalties
Definition

authors share of a book's income usually 15%

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advances
Definition

upfront money for an author to sign a contract with a publisher

 

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earn-outs
Definition
if you sign with a publisher and thenmake more royalties than your advance
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agents
Definition
person who represents an author and finds a publisher to negotiate a contract
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promotion
Definition
appearances, book-signing, etc.
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book distribution trends
Definition
mega-bookstores, electronic books
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newspaper circulation trends
Definition
not looking good right now, cirulation is depleting
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reading usage measures (RUM)
Definition
what do you read in the magazine, what do you remember seeing
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clustering
Definition
buying newspapers with adjoining circulations to cut operating costs
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types of newspapers
Definition
national, daily, weekly
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national
Definition

USA today, WSJ, Christian Science Monitor, etc.

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USA today media impacts
Definition
in 2005, 2.3 million circulation
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magazine readership and wealth
Definition
the more money you have, the more magazines you read -correlation betwen level of education and magazine readership
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magazine focus
Definition

so many magazines our there, if you have vice, chances are that there is a magazine for it

Broad Focus

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Inverted pyramid writing
Definition

journalistic style, put the imporatnt stuff at the top and when you get the end you know it's the end because there is nothing more to say

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penny press
Definition

sell advertising and mass produce newspapers and make it affordable to everyone, people were moving from the farms to the city

-distribution to masses

-economic factors - industrialization, urbanization, immigration, literacy

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off the record
Definition
things that aresaid that are not in the story, not wrote down, don't say anything that you don't want to be seen in print
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Golden Mean
Definition
do unto others as you would have done unto you
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Potter's box
Definition

4 components

method to work through ethical issues

-focuses on the situation facts, values underlying choices, principles

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shield laws
Definition
laws that protect reporter from revealing their sources, federal level
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ABC
Definition
ad rates based on cirulcation
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Web
Definition
everyone has a website - every magazine and newspaper- influence of web
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polling confidence levels
Definition

95% confidence level with a sample size of 384

370 min.

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sample sizes
Definition
survey/sampling ideas
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aribtron
Definition
service that evaluates listenership on the radio, who is listening to what, the more ears that are listening to your radio station, the more you can charge for adverstising
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cohort analysis
Definition

marketing tool o identify marketing targets by common characteristics-watch a specific group- "nobody wants to become their parents"

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Types of media research
Definition
survey, sampling and polling
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edison
Definition

he invented the phonograph

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Farnsworth
Definition
potato farmer that developed the television
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de forest

Definition
inventer whose projects included the audion tube
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marconi
Definition
produced the first wireless transmission
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PRP sharing

Definition

person to person file sharing, the issues surrounding this, intellectual property involved

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Busness model movie/recording
Definition
creation, production, promotion, distibution
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industries
Definition
newspaper, magazine, recording, etc
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Social contracts
Definition
old- I will provide you information but in return you have to promote my commercials. Today, that it breaking down
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Movie chemical technology
Definition
were going from film to digital today, issues such as cost and theft. It is much easier to steal a digital file than a 50 ft movie reel
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TV/movie industry relationships

Definition
Movies usualy do better when promoted on tv and shown after they are out of theatres
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Regulation of broadcast
Definition
FCC (federal communications commission)
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radio comunications act
Definition
airwaves are public property, it has carried over to TV
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media consumption habits
Definition
TV markets are up, 200 markets
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Moore's Law

Definition
silicon chips, their capacities double every 18 months
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product placement
Definition

someone drinking a coke in a movie, it is not a commercial, just placed within the show itself

-relatively new field

-try to get a product placed in a movie, or tv show

-Gatorade to dump on the coach

 

 

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Beginning of Internet
Definition

ARPAnet. National Science foundation linking college research, Internet

Vinton Cerf- coding that allows machines to talk to one another

Lexix Nexis- first database with full text

Berners-Lee- created protocols, WWW, URLs

Ray Tomlinson- @ sign

Netscape- Andreesen

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television markets
Definition

Largest market is in NY, smallest in Glendale, MT

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web measurement
Definition
click throughs, hits and visits. ways to charge for advertising
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digital divide
Definition
the economic distinction between impoverished groups and social groups with the means to maintain and improve their economic well being through computer access
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Ray Tomlinson

Definition
invented the @ sign
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Hays code

Definition
the decency of film code (rules for movie industry) violence and sex. developed into todays rating system
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Miller v California
Definition
a court case about the rating system of movies
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Movie financing
Definition
studios and private investors
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Radio formats
Definition
American top 40, hank, ATF
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Academic and private media research
Definition

academic- public,

private- paid for by companies and therefore not available to everyone

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sweeps
Definition
4 times per year, the television gets rated, viewership is promited, Nielson discovers how good the channel is and sets the rate for ads
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psychograpic and geodemograpic
Definition

psychograpic- stats such as behavior and lifestyle

geodemograpic- locations, regions, age, gender

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Public Relations
Definition
a tool for business, government and other institutions to establish and maintain beneficial relationships with affected groups and individuals
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Advertorials
Definition
You buy a piece in the newspaper to state and editorial opinion
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Ivy Lee
Definition
Father of PR in 1906
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Functional areas of PR
Definition
research, advocacy, event planning, media relations...
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crisis management
Definition
who talks to the media and the employers when there is a public crisis
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Institutional advertising

Definition

when a compnay is being promoted, not the product itself

"Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there"

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Advertising eras
Definition
premarketing, mass communications, research, web
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Nielsons
Definition
the most influencial company in the TV industry
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FTC/Post Office regulation of advertising
Definition
Federal Trade Commission/regulatory group that watches over the Food and Drug Postal Service and the FCC
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First Amendment protections
Definition
Freedom of speech, right to assemble, right to petition, freedom of religion, redress of grievances
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James Madison
Definition
the author of the 1st amendment
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Libel
Definition
written defamation
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Slander
Definition
spoken defamation
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Prior Restraint

Definition
prohibiting expression in advance or before it is made, court ruled it unconstitutional
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Arts Criticism
Definition
Fine because arts are in the public domain
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Copywright laws-protection

Definition
protects intellectual property from theft
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Protecting a trademark
Definition
better to use product names as adjectives, also cease and desist letter to violators
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Levels of control over advertising
Definition

regulation and controls

-store level

-community level

-censorship (local and national)

*national security

*community value

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FOIA
Definition

Freedom of information Act

-Federal act-petition the government for release of information

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1996 Communications Decency Act

Definition
struck down, denied
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Intellectual property
Definition
what can be copywrighted; ideas that have commercial value, such as literary or artistic works, patents business methods, and industrial processes
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Definition of advertising

Definition

a tool that uses mass and other media forms to bring together consumers and sellers of products, servies and issues.  Par of the field labeled Persuasive Comunication

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Function in an ad agency
Definition
creative account management, media plannin, etc.
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CPM
Definition

cost per thousand

cost for advertising

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News generated by PR
Definition
60-80%
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IMC, issue advocacy
Definition

a function a PR - advocating an issue

ex. world hunger

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