Midterm Redux
Theory about theory is know as ____.
What is metatheory?
The concept that describes the influence exerted by media organizations on one another
What is intermedia?
Stuart Hall
Who is the theorist who pioneered contemporary cultural studies in communication?
What is pathos?
For standpoint theorists, this is what our worldview depends on.
What is social location?
Symbols (words and gestures) do not contain fixed meaning; they are ____.
What is polysemic?
Framing, or the media making certain attributes of a media object salient
What is second level agenda-setting?
The mental frameworks different classes and social groups deploy in order to make sense of the way society works
What are ideologies?
External evidence the speaker doesn't create.
What are inartistic proofs?
Knowledge situated in time, place, experience and relative power, as opposed to knowledge that is objective, universal, and value-free
What is local knowledge?
The assumption that behavior is caused by heredity and the environment.
What is determinism?
Clusters of people who demand center stage for their one overriding concern; pressure groups
What are interest aggregations?
The subtle sway of society's haves over its have-nots
What is hegemony?
Providing shocking new insight by linking two dissonant words/worlds
What is perspective by incongruity?
Our group memberships that shape our experience of the world and our ways of understanding it.
What is social location?
A research method that describes and interprets the characteristics of any text.
What is textual analysis?
They cynical mindset of general mistrust of others found in heavy TV viewers
What is mean world syndrome?
The study of different personal and social environments created by the use of communication technology.
What is media ecology?
The common ground between speaker and audience; consubstantiality.
What is identification?
The strategy of starting research form the lives of women and other marginalized groups, who standpoint theorists believe have a less false view of reality.
What is strong objectivity?
Which tradition of communication relies on philosophy, critical theory, sociology, literary theory, gender studies, ethnic studies for theoretical invention?
What is the critical tradition?
Maxwell McCombs
Who is the theorist credited with Agenda-Setting Theory?
The socially constructed, sensory world of meaning.
What is symbolic environment?
Communication aimed at maintaining relationships rather than passing along information or saying something new
What is phatic communication?
All aspects of a person's identity are intertwined, mutually constituting each other.
What is intersectionality?