Media & The World
Like the two fish in the riddle, we are swimming in an ocean of it but unware it exists.
What is the media?
At its most basic, communication is this.
What is interaction?
Describes ways in which the media promote stereotypes and deny specific identities
What is Symbolic Annihilation?
Rule regarding different words having the same meaning.
What is: "There are no synonyms"?
Survival-of-the-fittest world view in economics.
What is Social Darwinism?
This word was never used to describe journalism until the 1920s.
What is objectivity?
This movie’s message is with adequate information, we are able to distinguish fiction from fact.
What is Rashomon?
This technology led to Inverted-pyramid style in news reporting.
What was the telegraph?
The literal or primary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
Rashomon is an example of this method
What is the Synoptic Method?
Objectivity in journalism is a product of these two things during WWI.
What is propaganda and public relations?
Marginalized lives lived at the periphery of our vision.
What is “The Other”?
This technology led to the Reformation of the church, the upheaval of the old world and the beginnings modernity.
What is the printing press?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes.
What is connotation?
"Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” is an example of this.
What is intersubjectivity?
The algorithms of the internet and social media create niches that reflect one’s own bias.
What is the Filter Bubble?
A form of journalism in which press releases, stories provided by news agencies, and other forms of pre-packaged material instead of reported news are used to create articles in newspapers and other news media.
What is churnalism?
To manipulate someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
What is gaslighting?
When we think about the connotation of words – that is the idea or feeling that a word invokes – we are thinking about words as a vehicle.
What is: Words carry freight?
Recognition that the thought and understanding of men of other cultures may differ sharply from his or her own.
What is intersubjectivity?
Reporting method that acknowledges our subjectivities, biases, language, culture, values, and limited perspectives while reporting on people with different perspectives.
What is strong objectivity?
People in a group within a group often do not express views that conflict with the majority.
What is spiral of silence?
Our meanings, understanding, and interpretations of the world come from our communication with others.
What is the social construction of reality?
The study of signs and symbols and their use.
What is semiotics?
Determining when a pile of sand is no longer a pile of sand.
What is the Sorites Paradox?