Media Theory
The process of designing cultural messages and stories and delivering them to large diverse audiences through media channels
What is Mass Communication?
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?
This term refers to shows like The Daily Show with John Stuart or Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
What is infotainment?
An environment in which participants encounter beliefs that reinforce their preexisting beliefs by repetition inside a closed system
What is an echo chamber?
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?
The process of interpreting the received code and an attempt to understand the meaning of the discourse
What is decoding?
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?
The result of processes and judgments constructed through institutions devoted to newsgathering
What is news?
The enfolding of human thought, conduct, organization and expression into the logic of big data and large-scale computation
What is Algorithmic Culture?
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?
The technological integration of various content delivery systems
What is technological convergence?
He describes representation as constitutive and argues that it creates knowledge about the world
Who is Stuart Hall?
The unilateral claim on human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data
What is Surveillance Capitalism?
These are the characteristics of Web 2.0 (name two)
What are connectivity, interactivity, participatory, and sociality?
This describes a celebrity who overshares, self-publishes, and is really weird online
What is microfamous?
Understanding the dominant coding but choosing to use an alternative framework of reference
The process in which ideology shapes what is normal and what is deviant and becomes common sense
What is normalization?
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?
This is the difference between misinformation and disinformation
The idea that wealth and success are solely based on your accomplishments
What is meritocracy?
The social and cultural infrastructures that support fan activities and interests
What are fan cultures?
When members of an oppressed class unwittingly adopt the ideologies of the oppressor class
What is false consciousness?
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?
A way to remain constantly connected and on call that originated with the pager
What is the check-in?
The one "assignment" worth 50 points of your final grade
What is participation?