Journalism
The collective name for the group of seven factors that journalists and editors consider when deciding which stories to publish or broadcast.
What are "news values"?
These are "acts, statutes, or laws that have been passed by Parliament or a provincial legislature".
What is legislation?
This is the term used to describe an industry sector dominated by a small number of large corporations.
What is oligopoly?
technology is seen as value neutral
What are instrumentalist theories?
This is a model of mass media that is centrally managed and that disseminates information one-way to a wide audience that cannot respond back in kind (like TV and radio).
What is the centralized (or traditional) model of mass media?
This is what happens when journalists, in the interests of "balance", try to portray two unequally valid sides to a story as equally valid (such as hosting a debate between someone who agrees with the broad scientific consensus on climate change, and someone who does not).
What is "false equivalence"?
The Broadcasting Act assigns responsibility for creating Regulations affecting media to this government agency.
What is the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)?
Labour, Technology, Capital, and Material Resources.
What are the four categories of resources any media company must control in order to function?
technology causes changes in behaviour
What is technological determinism?
The abbreviation "CRTC" stands for this full name of a Canadian government agency.
What is the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunication Commission?
This is the "news value" that describes where stories refer to the cultural or geographic relevance of a story for a particular media audience.
What is "proximity"?
This is a trend in international trade which results in "pressures from other countries and corporations to allow more foreign investment and cultural products to flow into Canada", and has had a significant shaping effect on Canadian media policies since the 1920s.
What is trade liberalization?
This concept (synonym hint: "hidden grasper") is used by Adam Smith to describe how market freedoms make the world a better place for everyone.
What is the "invisible hand" of the market?
Because it was not designed to reflect a broad range of skin tones, this is often pointed to as a classic example of how ideology is encoded into the design of technologies (critical theory).
What is early colour film (or, what is Kodak film)?
This refers to a process of reviewing and managing our exposure to data surveillance with the apps and devices we use.
What is a "data detox"?
The "news values" approach to understanding journalism ignores this.
What is "how stories are constructed or told" (or "how news is branded and packaged as a commodity")?
This is the statute that sets out the mandates for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
What is the Broadcasting Act?
This industry sector in Canada relies on significant grants, subsidies, and tax incentives to function at all.
What is the film industry?
users determine the meaning of a technology
What are social constructivist theories (or what is SCOT)?
This concept refers to advertising that disguises itself as journalism.
What is advertorial?
This conception of journalism as a practiced art refers to "how through words, images, sounds, and story themes, journalists provide context for a representation of reality."
What is framing?
This historic principle of telecommunications (which is used to guarantee equal levels of telephone service at equal cost) is closely related to the idea of "network neutrality".
What is common carriage?
Up, up, and away! This term refers to the concentration of firms within a
specific business that extends a company's control over the entire process of production.
What is vertical integration?
modern technology imposes a technocentric logic of efficiency on everything
What are substantivist theories?
The group Reporters Without Borders publishes this document each year.
What is the World Press Freedom Index?