Political Communication
Agenda Setting
Framing
Bennett & Baym
100
These types of effects describe how news media affect individuals (including influence on voting behavior)
What are micro-level effects?
100
This second level of agenda setting occurs when the press chooses to focus on certain aspects of a story, shaping the way viewers think about an issue
What is attribute agenda setting?
100
This kind of framing study examines the effects of news frames on viewers
What is frame setting?
100
The Daily Show, Colbert Report, and the Onion use this type of humor to critique traditional news media
What is satire or parody?
200
Human-interest stories and stories that are not fast breaking or significant in nature are considered this kind of news
What is soft news?
200
This term describes the control over the flow of news information by media professionals or governments
What is gatekeeping?
200
This type of frame refers to news that is reported in a general context, involving historic trends, policies, and statistics
What is a thematic frame?
200
This news bias describes how news stories are often focused on individuals rather than issues
What is personalization?
300
This effect refers to the reaction during a crisis when the media and the public are less critical of government leaders and policies
What is a rally effect?
300
Occurring when exposure to a message activates related thoughts in the mind of the viewer, this effect provides a conceptual basis for agenda setting
What is priming?
300
This kind of framing study examines how frames are constructed by news professionals
What is frame building?
300
Parody pieces in the Daily Show critique this tendency of news media to exaggerate certain aspects in order to make a better story
What is dramatization?
400
This effect describes how national unity is fostered during a crisis, partly through extended media coverage
What is solidarity building?
400
Voters who display more of this characteristic tend to consume more news media and are more susceptible to agenda setting effects
What is need for orientation?
400
This type of frame refers to news that is reported in terms of individual cases or events
What is an episodic frame?
400
This new bias describes how news media often follow the "now this" format, isolating stories from their larger context
What is fragmentation?
500
This concept describes the gap in political knowledge between people of high and low socio-economic status, and how that gap is increasing
What is the knowledge gap hypothesis?
500
This columnist wrote a book about how the news media shape the public's perception of the world, coining the term "psuedo-environment"
Who is Walter Lippmann?
500
This theory tells us that how we perceive information is dependent how we receive that information (a point of reference)
What is prospect theory?
500
Baym uses this term to describe the Daily Show's unique blend of news and entertainment
What is discursive integration?
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