Media Vocabulary
The plural form of "medium." This term has come to mean all the industrial forms of mass communication altogether.
Media
The structural and stylistic framework or template that shapes how media content is organized, presented, and delivered to an audience.
Format
Familiar and predictable forms and techniques used by media to communicate certain ideas or convey a desired impression
Codes & Conventions
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward investigated this president for using campaign funds to illegally attain information that could be used to smear his opponents
Richard Nixon
A movie shows a group of teens being loud and obnoxious, and pushing an old lady down. What ism is shown?
Ageism
The concept of who is responsible for the creation of a media text
Authorship
The individual results of media production: a movie, a TV episode, a book, an issue of a magazine or newspaper, an advertisement, an album, a CD, etc.
Just 10 global companies own this percentage of the world's information
90%
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel almost lost his job over jokes he made about the assassination of a political activist. Who was the political activist?
Charlie Kirk
The queen in the Disney film "Snow White" wants to be the most attractive; what ism is being shown?
Preconceived ideas determined by past experiences, values or opinions that affect one's viewing or creating of a media text
Bias
Those in our society and in the media who have power and influence in determining the media we consume
Dominant Culture
The two ways of looking at an audience of a media text
As consumers & active participants
Marshall McLuhan
In the Disney film, Aladdin, one of the original lyrics in the song "Arabian Nights" was, "where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face." What ism is this?
Racism
Deeper thinking while watching a media text that involves questioning, analyzing and understanding issues shown in media texts
Critical viewing
The way a media text stands for, symbolizes, describes or represents people, places, events or ideas that exist in real life.
Representation
The minimum number of sources a journalist must have before reporting information as a fact
Three
The nickname given to the anonymous source who kept meeting Bob Woodward in the parking garage in the film, All the President's Men
Deep Throat
Most films and television shows feature straight couples which shows this ism
Heterosexism
To examine and break down a media text into smaller parts in order to understand how and why it was created
Deconstruct
The intended goal or reason behind the creation and distribution of a media text.
Purpose
Family Guy
Who was the skateboarder who spoke in the video, "On Getting Up Again"?
Rodney Mullen
In many films and television shows, the "bad guys" are Muslim terrorists
Islamophobia