Weeks 1-3
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That's News To Me!
Around the World
Method to the Madness
100

The name of that infamous horse.

Clever Hans

100

When a student posts a funny meme for friends, but their professors, parents, and future employers also see it refers to this term.

context collapse

100
A community with limited or no local news sources. 

News desert

100

A large volume of media products flow from the West, especially the U.S., and thus shape other cultures in a form of domination.

Cultural Imperialism

100

This research tradition is commonly associated with interviews and focus groups.

Interpretivism

200

A linear, one way process of viewing communication as the sending and receiving of a message from sender to receiver.

Transmission

200

These five parts, Invention, arrangement, style, delivery, and memory, form this classical rhetorical theory. 

Five canons of rhetoric

200

Journalism for public good and journalism as public good.

Public Interest Journalism

200

Refers to the movement of media content, ideas, culture from non-Western regions and challenges American (or any single culture)in international communication.

Global counter flow

200

This concept refers to how knowledge is constructed or the nature of knowledge.

Epistemology

300

theorist of medium is the message

Marshal McLuhan

300

In an opinion poll, the “confidence level” indicates...

The estimate that reflects the opinions of the whole population

300

This means state capitals play an important role as the epicenter of the nation's key public debates as state governments serve as staging grounds for national policies and local level. 

Statehouse Journalism

300

Tencent working with Warner Bros is an example of...

Co-production

300

This experiment found that people will likely follow orders when instructed by an accepted authority figure.

The Milgrim Experiment

400

The hero rose at dawn, and he took his spear, and he called to his brothers, and they marched to the great river, and the sun burned strong upon them, and the people waited on the far shore…is an example of which oral culture characteristic?

Additive

400

When the majority opinion gets louder and the minority opinion becomes quieter.

Spiral of Silence

400

As a result of passing this law, six media corporations control 90% of media industries. 

1996 Telecommunications Act 

400

This country restricted foreign films in their country and also imposed high taxes on them to use for their own local media. 

France

400

The concerns with this approach are positionality, polysemy and audience, and persuasive interpretation.

Critical approach

500

Media that is artificially created or modified using technology, especially AI. It can include visual, auditory, or multimodal content, such as text, images,videos, voice, and data.

Synthetic Media

500

This rhetorical concept refers to the opportune moment or saying the right thing at exactly the right time.

Kairos
500

Media Consolidation + ________________ = Problems for Journalism

Collapse of payment model

500

We discussed competition from different local markets and the strength of their media industry. Name AT LEAST two of these local markets.

Nollywood, K-Wave (South Korea), Bollywood

500

This pair of research traditions differ in how strongly they believe in objective truth, one claims it can be known with certainty, while the other argues we can only approximate it through careful, evidence-based inquiry.

Positivism and post-positivism

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