Media Matters
The many forms of/tools for communication, such as print, video, and web.
What is media?
A political organization symbolized by the elephant and known for its conservative positions.
What is the Republican Party?
It studies how and why particular conditions come to be constructed as social problems.
What is the social problems process?
Grounds, warrants, and conclusions.
What are the three basic components of a basic argument?
People who are already close to sources of power and can conduct claimsmaking without relying on media coverage to be heard.
Who are insider claimsmakers?
Forms of media that are not one-way. Instead, they allow for dialogue.
What is social media?
A political organization symbolized by the donkey and known for its liberal positions.
What is the Democratic Party?
The way people assign meaning to the world.
What is social construction?
Statements that specify what should be done and what actions should be taken to address this social problem.
What are conclusions?
Overarching large-scale causes.
What are social movements?
The ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and act using all forms of communication.
What is media literacy?
Characterized by two-parties with differing philosophies about the role of government, social, and economic policies.
What is the US Political System?
A statement asserting that a condition is troubling or harmful.
What is a claim?
Explanation for why something should be done about a social problem.
What are warrants?
Explain what needs to be done to solve the troubling condition.
What are prognostic frames?
Asks how the audience interpreted the message(s)?
What is media analysis?
Deeply held views by political party supporters with little to no motivation to compromise with opposing political views.
What is political partisanship?
The study of persuasion, involving appeals to both emotion and reason.
What is rhetoric?
Conditions that nearly everyone will agree are significant social problems.
What are valence issues?
Calls on widely held values to rally others to the cause.
What is frame amplification?
The specific perspective that media authors/reporters use when telling a news story.
What is media bias?
Unquestioning loyalty to a political belief or party.
What is political tribalism?
Individual and public reactions that can be used to improve the response to the issue.
What is feedback?
A strategy for refininf claims in which claimsmakers can rely on established problems and allow newer claims to build upon older ones.
What is piggybacking?
Calls on people to adopt a new, different frame.
What is frame transformation?