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Print Media
Newspapers
Media Maturation Model
Media of Mass Communication
News Journalism
100
What is the oldest book?
What is the codex, or what is the Diamond Sutra?
100
Who published the first newspaper-like thing?
What is Julius Caesar
100
What is the media maturation model?
What is media technology goes through predictable stages
100
Describe information as how it pertains to mass communication
What is virtually everything you know about the world is delivered to you by the media
100
What is news journalism?
What is the process of gathering info and making narrative reports
200
What is block printing?
What is carving blocks of wood with raised surfaces and then applying sheets of paper to those surfaces after covering them with ink
200
What happened as America became more urban?
What is papers began to associate themselves with cities
200
What is innovation?
What is technology is just being explored and not necessarily for the same thing it ends up becoming
200
What is mass media?
What is the vehicles through which messages are disseminated to mass audiences
200
What is newsworthy?
What is timeliness, proximity, conflict, prominence, human interest, consequence/utility, uniqueness/deviance
300
Who invented the printing press?
What is Johannes Gutenberg
300
What is the partisan press?
What is newspapers became opened affiliated with political parties
300
What is the entrepreneurial stage?
What is commercial use is discovered for the technology
300
What is the difference between high and low culture?
What is high culture associated with higher levels of taste, education, complexity, wealth, cultural durability and low culture associated with mass popularity, throwaway culture, simplistic appeals
300
What is the term for the specific strategies journalism uses to function
What is the rituals of reporting
400
How did the first European printing press work
What is taking Asian print-used metal to make durable moveable type
400
What are the two things the Yellow Press Period is characterized by?
What is overly dramatic stories about crimes, celebrities, and scandals, and investigative journalism represented as a crusade for the common people
400
What is stability?
What is commercial use becomes stable and widespread - a true "mass" medium
400
Give an example of high culture and low culture
What is operas, symphonies, Beethoven and reality shows
400
What are human interest stories? Criticisms of human interest stories?
What is stories told about the "ordinary people", but often not really ordinary, common people
500
What were the effects of the printing press?
What is the arrival of the printing press ushered in the 1st age of mass communication
500
Name the three periods of the history of American news
What is Colonial/Partisan Period, Penny Press Period, and Yellow Press Period
500
What is the last, new stage of the model (describe it)?
What is media convergence, older media reconfigured in various forms of newer media
500
What is ubiquity?
What is on average, people spend almost 5 hours a day intentionally involved in media activity
500
What are the 6 stages of the rituals of reporting
What is focus on the present, get the story, get the story first, rely on experts, balance story conflict, and act as adversaries