TELEVISION ERAS
Remote controls and VCRs.
What is The Multi-Channel Era?
A few companies controlling an industry.
What is an oligopoly?
It's like going on a police ride-a-long.
What is COPS?
This form of communication wants to you believe or do a certain thing.
What is Propaganda?
Showing something from the past.
What is a Flashback?
Watching what we want when we want.
What is The Convergence Era?
When a company participates in all stages of its business.
What is Vertical Integration?
Housewives competed for prizes with their sob-stories.
What is Queen For A Day?
Heavy viewers of TV see the world as more dangerous than it really it.
What is Gerbner's Mean World Syndrome?
The lead oppositional character.
What is the Antagonist?
Niche programming targeting a specific demographic.
What is the Multi-Channel Era?
When a company has holdings across different industries.
What is Horizontal Integration?
This hit from 80's that turned the camera lens onto ourselves.
What is America's Funniest Home Videos?
TV is a foreign substance injected into a passive viewer.
What is the Hypodermic Needle Theory?
When a character speaks directly to the camera.
What is Direct Address?
Upended the economic model of television.
What is The Convergence Era?
When units of a corporation work together to maximize overall profit.
What is synergy?
Pedro Zamora, a young activist, showed us what it's like to live with AIDS on this show.
What is The Real World?
Media creators input meaning into a product.
What is Encoding?
The mood or vibe of a show.
What is Tone?
People thought TV was free.
What is The Classic Television Era?
This corporation holds a monopoly on reporting television ratings since the 1950s.
What is The Neilson Corporation?
This PBS show destroyed the Loud family of Santa Barbara, CA.
What is An American Family?
When society overreacts with exaggerated fears to cultural trends in the media.
What is a Moral Panic?
A one-sentence description of a project.
What is a Logline?