front 1 Mass Communication | back 1 Communication transmitted to large amounts of the population |
front 2 Media | back 2 various methods for communication (plural of medium) |
front 3 Mass Media | back 3 means of transmission made to reach a wide audience |
front 4 Media Convergence | back 4 merging of distinct technologies to share content, tasks, and resources (smart phone) |
front 5 Kinds of media convergence | back 5 Economic, organic, cultural, global, technological |
front 6 economic convergence | back 6 when various media organizations and functions are merged under a single ownership |
front 7 organic convergence | back 7 What happens when someone is watching television while chatting online and also listening to music |
front 8 cultural convergence | back 8 stories flow across media platforms (book to movie) |
front 9 global convergence | back 9 The process of geographically distant cultures influencing one another |
front 10 technological convergence | back 10 different techs/media merge |
front 11 What media do for us | back 11 educate/inform, entertain/escape, public forum, watchdog for govmt and businesses |
front 12 Culture | back 12 shared beliefs, values, and traditions of a specific group of people. |
front 13 Gatekeeper | back 13 determines which stories make it to the public |
front 14 Evolution of mass media | back 14 Oral, written, print, electronic, digital |
front 15 Modern age of media | back 15 1400 - early 1900 |
front 16 Post-Modern Age of media | back 16 1950 - present |
front 17 Effect of mass media on culture | back 17 emergence of pop culture, more experiences and ideas easily shared among people |
front 18 Effect of mass media on tv | back 18 broader range of channels, more selection of news channels and networks for diversified interests |
front 19 Media Literacy | back 19 skill to decode/process messages and symbols from media |
front 20 5 key media literacy questions | back 20 Who wrote it |