Media basics
This part of the US Constitution protects the media from government reprisal.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Focusing on poll numbers and who is winning instead of the issues candidates represent, this describes how presidential contests are covered.
What is horse race coverage?
This is how the media influences what we should think about.
What is agenda setting theory?
This is what we call the way music can trigger feelings and influence action. It is influenced by a musicians personally, cultural, and community identity.
What is sonic affect?
This describes a method used by comic book writers and artists that violates the accepted norms of society.
What is the transgressive technique?
Independent of journalists goals, this is the overarching goal thrust upon media companies by the capitalist system.
What is the for-profit motive?
This food led to an embarrassing political gaffe when President Gerald Ford ate it with the husk still on.
What is a tamale?
This refers to the way the media chooses particular perspectives to highlight.
What is framing?
This describes how members of racial groups are portrayed through stereotypes and caricatures in film and television.
What is misrepresentation?
This location, found in the video game Minecraft, provides users in media restricted countries access to information they would otherwise be unable to access.
In political science, this is the form of media we are mostly interested in due to its influence the public.
What is mass media?
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This function, or role, is how the media keeps the public informed about what the government is doing.
What is the watchdog role?
This describes films that have authentic diversity behind and in front of the camera and the characters reflect genuine aspects of the culture being displayed.
What is the AIR rating?
This hero is Professor Cruz' main in the game Overwatch.
Who is the Wrecking Ball?
Sometimes referred to as long form media, this type of media, which includes newspapers and text based websites, requires a minimum level of literacy.
What is print media?
This year saw the very first radio broadcast in the US, announcing the winner of a presidential election.
What is 1920?
The media plays a large role in this, which can be described as the lifelong process through which individuals acquire their political beliefs, values, and identities.
What is political socialization?
A common trope in comic books used to advance the story of the male protagonist by killing off or depowering their female love interest.
What is girls in refrigerators? (or fridging women)
This describes regulation systems in authoritarian states that control and use the media to support values of the state.
What are ideological controls?
This Facebook connected app was downloaded by 270,000 people but accessed the data of 87 million users in what would become the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
What is This Is Your Digital Life?
This function describes how the media provides us information, both to make collective action decisions as well as personal decisions.
What is surveillance?
This show featured the very first transgender character on TV.
This video game was used as an example where both the narrative and ludic element align to tell a social critique about access to society gated by gender.
What is Fallout: New Vegas?