Audiences
ways for marketers to categorize audiences including age, gender, ethnicity, race, and income
What are demographics/demographic indicators?
Walt Disney Studios, Universal Pictures, CBS Studios, ABC Entertainment, Republic Records, Abbey Road are all examples of this phase of the business of media cycle
What is production?
This approach emphasizes the idea that systematic negative portrayals of (minoritized) populations result in audiences internalizing some of those ideas
What is cultivation studies?
How members of groups are seen and understood by themselves and others
What is Media/Cultural Representation?
Popular approach to studying media that relates to why/when/how people use media
What is uses and gratifications research?
ways to differentiate among people/groups by categorizing based on attitudes, personality types, motivations
What are psychographics/psychographic indicators?
Delivery of produced media to the point where it will be shown to intended audiences
What is distribution?
Analyzes media by focusing on how industries work, analyzing what media workers do in their work worlds
What is Critical Media Industries research?
Artificial, limited, unspecific approaches to on-screen inclusion of diverse characters
What is plastic representation?
governmental regulation of content before it is distributed
The great increase in the number of mass media outlets that has taken place during the past several decades
What is (channel) fragmentation?
Phase of business cycle where mass media objects are presented to audiences for view or purchase
What is exhibition?
This approach to analyzing media focuses on the destructive influence of capitalism on culture
What is critical theory? (bonus Q: established by whom?)
Media have the power to reduce real/complex humans to simplified caricatures that can define minority populations for the majority - these caricatures are also known as this
What are stereotypes?
Name/describe one of your teammates' research topics based on the peer review exercise(s)
[do a good job of explaining what you remember for these points!]
Media producers/distributors working to reach different types of people with content tailored specifically for them
Movie theater, TV set, Roku, ISP, are some examples of this
Specific exhibition points, aka "windows"
Exercise of control over an area/people by a dominant group, not through force as much as by influencing through cultural materials aligned with values/beliefs of the dominant group
What is cultural colonialism?
Social, cultural, and/or political real-world stakes of different approaches to representing groups
What is politics of representation?
obscenity, military operations, copyright are each examples of reasons for this type of media regulation
What is prior restraint?
Since we're active recipients of media, media texts can be understood as this term which means "open to multiple meanings"
What is polysemous?
Special: Explain which phase in the business of media cycle one of your projects relates to!
[be specific enough to earn the points!]
Approach that believes that mass media present their audiences with texts (and technologies) in which audiences find meaning
What is cultural studies?
Ways to study media in terms of representation
What is cultivation studies? / What is cultural studies?
Knowingly publishing a lie that depicts your Trinity advisor negatively in the Trinitonian is a form of this
What is libel?