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100
A pathway through which a transmitter sends all features of a message.
Channel
100
Using parts of another's work without giving credit.
Plagiarism
100
During a live report concerning drug addiction in a particular neighborhood, you are seen walking down the street.
False light
100
Age, race, gender, income, and marital status.
Characteristics of an audience member that an advertiser will use to target its products.
100
An approach to media regulation where owners of firms must be avid supporters of the government regime.
Authoritarian
200
Handles all interstate and international communications.
FCC
200
The industrialized production and distribution of messages through technological devices.
Mass communication
200
A company that holds several mass media firms and places them under its corporate umbrella.
Conglomerate
200
A societal gap between those with access to technology and those who do not.
Digital divide
200
Beginning in the 1500s, book printers began to challenge the ideas of what institution.
The Catholic church.
300
A system of principles about what is right that guides a person's actions.
Ethics
300
The ability to download audiovisual material.
Podcasting
300
Unauthorized use of a person's name or likeness in an advertisement or other commercial context.
Appropriation
300
These two numbers are used to convert media messages digitally.
0 and 1.
300
Creating online sites, podcasting, RSS feeds, and blogging.
Ways in which the newspaper industry has adapted to online competition.
400
An increase in the number of mass media and mass media outlets.
Fragmentation
400
Messages designed to change the attitudes or behaviors of disconnected individuals.
Propaganda
400
Baker and Taylor purchase a book title from Random House. Then, they sell the title to Borders.
The roles of a book publisher, wholesaler, and exhibitor.
400
He or she is hired by a media organization to deal with readers, viewers, or listeners who have a complaint to report or an issue to discuss.
Ombudsperson
400
Within this model of regulation, individuals are capable of making sound decisions for themselves without government interference.
Libertarian
500
Highly disreputable or false statements made to injure or damage the reputation of another, such as libel or slander.
Defamation
500
An ambitious young boy or girl who sells papers on the street.
Hawker
500
Revealing truthful information, concerning the private life of an individual, that would be considered highly offensive.
Public disclosure
500
Applying critical thinking skills to mass media to become a more aware or responsible citizen.
Media literacy
500
Placing a listening device, or "bug," inside someone's office to hear the conversation taking place inside.
Intrusion
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