Ch. 9
Another term for media framing, commonly used in politics.
What is a spin?
Entman's 4 main types of frames.
What are defining a specific problem, making a moral judgement about the problem, diagnosing the cause of the problem and suggesting remedies to the problem?
Theme songs, slogans, and title sequences are all a form of this.
What are formal features?
The idea that objects continue to exist even when they are not visible.
What is object permanence?
The "hero's road" discussed in the Ted Talk is an example of this.
What is a counter frame?
A concept used by media outlets as a convenient reference point that is understood by the audience, such as “another 9/11.”
What is a media template?
Name for when news is conveyed as an example of a trend we have seen over time.
What is thematic framing?
Statements made by governmental officials, press releases, and the publication of new books are all a form of this.
What is a news peg?
The ability to impute mental states to others and use this information to predict their behavior.
What is theory of mind?
One of the most powerful media effects that resulted in children not getting vaccines.
What is the MMR controversy?
According to Tversky and Kahneman, the two ways in which messages can be framed.
What are loss and gain framed?
Name for when news is conveyed as a one time stand alone event.
What is episodic framing?
These types of studies found that children are good at switching between fantasy worlds without confusion.
What are pretend play studies?
Children in this stage were only able to provide descriptions of superficial behavior and the physical setting after viewing a daytime soap opera.
What is preoperational?
Name two things that children can identify and recognize in the media.
What are different genres and conventions of programming?
An analytic process, meant to address criticisms in the lack of coherent methodology in studying framing.
What is Media Framing Analysis?
An important aspect of the narrative in children's media.
What are naturalistic interactions?
Explain the Pink Panther study.
Children were shown a video of a hunter chasing a bird, which evaded the hunter, and went into a cave. Then the children were asked where the hunter would look for the bird. The study found that more children than expected passed this theory of mind test.
Name all of Piaget's cognitive stages in the correct order.
Give an example of adults failing to distinguish between reality and fantasy.
Crying when a fictional character dies, sending innaprostriate letters to actors for their behavior of the character they play, taking a lucky mascot to a football game.
The six steps in Media Framing Analysis
What are identifying the story, identifying the character, analyzing narrative from, analyzing language use, making generalizations, and final analysis?
Name two of the functions of framing according to Robert Entman?
What are raising the salience of ideas, activating schemas, or encouraging the audience to think or feel a certain way?
Name two arguments that have been given regarding children and the media.
Children are too young to understand the media, Children believe that the things they see on TV are actually occurring in real life, There is a magic age for children's understanding of the media
Name the three cognitive stages that Bearison et al. used in there studies.
What are preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational?
Name the three methods that the Ted Talk speaker gave for avoiding polarization.
What are combine frames, remember frames are suggestive, and remember that there is always another suggestion?