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Media And Society
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03/22/2006

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Term
What is Globalization?
Definition
The Worldwide Spread of Media
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What is Cultural Imperialism?
Definition
Unequal flow of media from a dominant culture to the rest of the world.
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What is cultural proximity?
Definition
The desire of the audience to see programming from cultures that are similar to theirs
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What is the Authoritarian Model?
Definition
Government Controls Media to maintain authority
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What is the Totalitarianism Model?
Definition
Outright Control over Media
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What is the Libertatian Model?
Definition
Complete Free Expression in the Media
Term
What is the Social Responsibility Model?
Definition
Free Expression with some limits, an emphasis on self censorship
Term
What is the Developmental Model?
Definition
A cooperation between government and media. Media is brought in in order to allow a developing country to break into the Media Market
Term
Define Media Representation.
Definition
The construction in Mass Media of aspects of reality such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and abstract concepts
Term
What are the three ways we can change perceptions of groups.
Definition
Make people laugh, showpeople an idealized version of a group, or show people a superhero version of a group
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What is the spiral of silence.
Definition
Suppression of a less popular view, the majority is strengthened, and the minority is silenced
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Define Censorship.
Definition
Control over media content by those in power
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What is the Harm Principle?
Definition
Media shouldn't harm people
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What is the Moralism principle?
Definition
Society should control morally offensive content
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What is the paternalism principle?
Definition
Morally offensive content should be controlled to protect us from ourselves
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What is the offense principle?
Definition
People should be protected from being offended in public
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What is prior restraint?
Definition
Banning or censoring information ahead of publication
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How many people sit on the FCC board?
Definition
Five
Term
Define indecency.
Definition
Material that describes or depicts sexual or excratory activities at times of day where there is a reasonable risk that children are in the audience
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