Assumptions of Mass Society
The Rise of Yellow Journalism
Cycles of Mass Media Development
Propaganda Theories
Terms and Definitions
100
In order to control the media's ability to change essential norms and values, this group must take control.
What is the wealthy elite?
100
Some experts believe that Yellow Journalism was named from THIS comic.
What is The Yellow Kid
100
Functional Development is the term used to describe when old technology finds a new _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
What is purposes?
100
After this World War, propaganda spread past Europe and into the United States
What is World War 1
100
A form of communication that has a misleading and biased nature. It affects culture and politics thoroughly.
What is propaganda?
200
Media are able to directly influence the minds of these people.
What are average people?
200
It's _________ is one reason why Hearst was able to sell his newspapers to people living in low poverty
What is it's low cost or new forms of content
200
Reality TV shows are a modern example of this "coloured" for of journalism.
What is Yellow Journalism?
200
This man believed that propaganda was not powerful because of the content itself, but because of the vulnerable mind of the viewer, and influenced these viewers in slow, subtle ways.
Who is Harold Lasswell?
200
A theory that sees people as good and rational and able to judge good ideas from bad
What is libertarianism?
300
Once the media changes this, this will bring not only ruin to individual lives, but also create social problems on a vast scale.
What is people's thinking?
300
This is one of three reasons why people had such low respect for journalists of this period.
What is low journalist integrity/sketchy details/over dramatization
300
One of these are a form of competition that newspaper publishers had to deal with.
What is records, movies, or radio?
300
This institute was formed by scientists, educators and journalists with the goal of creating a national education campaign to inform people of, and fight the effects of propaganda.
What is the Institute for propaganda analysis?
300
A theory that propaganda is powerful enough to have a direct and immediate impact on it's audience.
What is the Magic Bullet Theory?
400
People are vulnerable to media because in mass society they are cut off from this.
What is traditional social institutions?
400
In contrary to Journalists, printers were treated with lots of this.
What is respect?
400
This is electronic protection of digitally distributed media content.
What is DRM?
400
These two theories strongly influenced most of the propaganda theories from the 1930’s.
What is Behaviorism and Freudianism?
400
The belief that human behaviour is a product of a person's Id, Ego and Super-Ego battling. *HINT- Sigmund Frued's idea*
What is freudianism?
500
This will likely resolve social chaos initiated by media.
What is totalitarian social order?
500
This person was blamed for inciting the Spanish American War of 1898.
Who is Hearst?
500
This search engine website is now a multibillion establishment as well as a verb.
What is google?
500
This theory argues that public values are controlled through propaganda by powerful elites that use this to benefit themselves.
What is Contemporary (or Modern) Propaganda theory?
500
All human responses are conditioned by external stimuli. Ex. Media
What is behaviourism?