Chapter 1 + 2
What are the three themes this course will discuss?
1. Technology
2. Democracy
3. Capitalism
Find the WRONG answer:
Shooting from a low angle:
a. makes the subject appear weaker, diminished, victimized
b. creates directional lines upward
c. implies power and gandeau
d. can make the subject appear larger/taler
a. makes the subject appear weaker, diminished, victimized
What is the idea that there is an elite class that has a certain set of accept "values" among the lower class?
Hegemony
True or False: The media is said to have a liberal spin because this message is reinforced by Democrats.
False: It's repeated by Conservatives
True or False: The Partisan Era was during the Civil War (late 1800s)
False: This was during the American Revolution (1700s). The Commercial Era was during the 1800s.
True or false: According to the textbook, we live in the early stage of a/an electronic revolution
False! It's a digital revolution
Who is the better learning assistant?
ME aka Sunny
What is the season and the character associated with a Romance?
a. kings/spring
b. pawns/loners/fall
c. knights/summer
q. quarter/plus
c. knights/summer
According to Michael Schudson's Eras, which citizen came first?
a. Rights-Bearing citizen
b. Deferential citizen
c. Informed Citizen
d. Monitorial Citizen
a. Deferential
What is ethnocentrism?
a. a form of journalism that is extremely dramatized. There tends to be more fiction than fact
b. the idea that journalism favors small over the large and rural over the urban
c. reporters will judge other countries based on how they compare to American ideoogies
c. reporters will judge other countries based on how they compare to American ideoogies
Out of these media metaphors, which metaphor does a "bad job of socializing our children"?
a. interloper
b. information
c. propaganda
d. commerce
e. distraction
f. curriculum
g. art
curriculum
When the Kodak Brownie camera came to use, they made it acceptable/popular to society that smiling was normal
True
What is the season and the character associated with a Melodrama?
a. kings/spring
b. pawns/loners/fall
c. saints/fools/winter
d. cheater/summer
b. pawns/loners/fall
True or False: According to the textbook, news coverage of how hard it is to live off minimum wage jobs has DECREASED in recent years.
a. true --> it has decreased
Name one positive effect that blogging had on journalism. What effect did blogging NOT have on journalism?
a. Increased transparency
b. Sense of community
c. Context
d. Adopting a neutral pose
d. Adopting a neutral pose
Which media metaphor relates to: media corporations will give us what we want and media are an extension of the free market?
media as commerce --> the media also promotes consumerism
Which critical approach, when analyzing an image, examines: its composition, the level of symbolic meaning, and its ability to evoke realism
Narrativist approach
How should we react to citizens to narratives that support hegemony?
a. resist, limit, alter, and challenge
What is the telecommunications act?
It worked to increase competition and reduce conglomeration in the American media industry
What were some characteristics of newspapers in the partisan press era?
a. relied on sensationalism
b. were Penny papers and yellow journalism
c. advocated for and against political issues
d. cost 10-12 dollars yearly
e. appealed to elites
f. appealed to the common people/workers
g. cost a penny
h. were subsidized by political parties
d. cost 10-12 dollars yearly
e. appealed to elites
c. advocated for and against political issues
h. were subsidized by political parties
True or false: In the textbook, Lakoff and Johnson believe the metaphors don't construct reality but instead the metaphors describe and reflect reality
False --> they believe that the metaphors construct reality
Composition
it is important to be media literate and comprehend how the media supports hegemony. Essentially, we must “____________________________” those stories so that we can recognize how it does not represent our experiences, interest, and democratic practices.
a. dominant, negotiated, oppositional
b. oppose, negotiate, reject
c. constructionist, narrativist, reflectionist
d. resist, limit, alter, and challenge
d. resist, limit, alter, and challenge
What Supreme Court case made the first amendment applicable to corporations and unions?
Citizens United V. FEC
Joseph Pulitzer and William R. Hearst are closely associated with which Era?
Market Era