Media Theory
Ideology and Identity
Democracy and Surveillance
New Media and Algorithms
Misc.
100

The process of designing cultural messages and stories and delivering them to large diverse audiences through media channels

What is Mass Communication?

100

An attempt to fix the meanings that are given to a particular group AND the circulation of limited definitions of groups or people

What is stereotyping?

100

This term refers to shows like The Daily Show with John Stuart or Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

What is infotainment?

100

An environment in which participants encounter beliefs that reinforce their preexisting beliefs by repetition inside a closed system

What is an echo chamber?

100

A framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet

What is media literacy?

200

The process of interpreting the received code and an attempt to understand the meaning of the discourse

What is decoding?

200

A combination of synthetic elements put together and shaped to look like meaningful imagery, but which can only approximate depth and substance because ultimately it is hollow and cannot survive close scrutiny

What is Plastic Representation?

200

The result of processes and judgments constructed through institutions devoted to newsgathering

What is news?

200

The enfolding of human thought, conduct, organization and expression into the logic of big data and large-scale computation

What is Algorithmic Culture?

200

An umbrella term used to describe an array of theoretical perspectives which, though diverse, are united by their skeptical attitude, humanistic approach, political assessment, and commitment to social justice.

What is critical media studies?

300

The technological integration of various content delivery systems

What is technological convergence?

300

He describes representation as constitutive and argues that it creates knowledge about the world

Who is Stuart Hall?

300

The unilateral claim on human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data

What is Surveillance Capitalism?

300

These are the characteristics of Web 2.0 (name two)

What are connectivity, interactivity, participatory, and sociality?

300

This describes a celebrity who overshares, self-publishes, and is really weird online

What is microfamous?

400

Understanding the dominant coding but choosing to use an alternative framework of reference

What is oppositional decoding?
400

The process in which ideology shapes what is normal and what is deviant and becomes common sense

What is normalization?

400

Those who study this connect how media and communication systems and content are shaped by ownership, market structures, commercial support, technologies, labor practices, and government policies

What is the political economy of media?

400

This is the difference between misinformation and disinformation

What is intent?
400

The idea that wealth and success are solely based on your accomplishments

What is meritocracy?

500

The social and cultural infrastructures that support fan activities and interests

What are fan cultures?

500

When members of an oppressed class unwittingly adopt the ideologies of the oppressor class

What is false consciousness?

500

This refers to the idea that, if left in the right hands, technologies can do good and need not be feared.

What is the Neutrality Thesis?

500

A way to remain constantly connected and on call that originated with the pager

What is the check-in?

500

The one "assignment" worth 50 points of your final grade

What is participation?