Mass Communication Final

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Accreditation:

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The process by which the government certifies members of the press to cover government-related news events (President Lincoln used this to intervene in the war over the Civil war battle coverage)

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Agenda setting:

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The belief that journalists don’t tell you what to think but do tell you what and whom to think about.

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Consensus Journalism:

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The tendency among many journalists covering the same event to report on similar conclusions about the event

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Cooperative News Gathering:

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Member news organizations that share the expense of getting news. (New York Associated Press became the first in 1848)

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Photojournalism:

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Using photographs to accompany a news story. Matthew Brady’s photojournalism paved a new way for using images to help capture the story.

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Embedded:

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During the Iraq war, a term used to describe journalists who were allowed to cover the war on the front lines supervised by the US Military.

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Ethnocentrism:

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The attitude that some cultural and social values are superior.

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Magic Bullet Theory:

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The assertion that media messages directly and measurably affect people’s behavior.

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Open Source Reporting:

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Using non-journalists as researchers to gather and share information

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Shield Laws:

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A law that protects journalists from being required to reveal confidential resources in a legal proceeding.

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Media content analysis:

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An attempt to analyze how people use the information they receive from the media.

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Media Research effects:

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An attempt to analyze how people use the information they receive from the media.

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Spiral of silence:

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The belief that people with divergent views maybe reluctant to challenge the consensus of opinion offered by the media

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Two step flow:

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The transmission of information and ideas from mass media to opinion leaders and then to friends.

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“The Bundle”:

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The combination of telecommunications services that the media industries want to offer consumers.

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Censorship:

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The practice of suppressing material that is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.

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COPA:

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Child Online protection Act. A law aimed at preventing minors from getting access to sexually explicit online material.

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Cross-ownership:

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A company that owns TV and radio stations in the same broadcast market

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DMCA:

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

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False Light:

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The charge that what was implied in a story about someone was incorrect.

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HUAC:

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House Un-American Activities Committee

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Hudson test:

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A legal test that establishes a standard for commercial speech protection.

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Intellectual Property rights:

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The legal right of a person or organization for creative ideas.

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LAPS test:

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A yardstick for local obscenity judgments, which evaluates an artistic’s work’s literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

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Libel:

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A false statement that damages a person’s character or reputation by exposing that person to public ridicule or contempt.

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Pool reporting:

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An arrangement that places reporters in small, government-supervised groups to cover and event.

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Prior restraint:

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Government censorship of information before the information is published or broadcast.

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Qualified privilege:

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The freedom of the press to report what is discussed during legislative and court proceedings.

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RBOC’s:

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Regional Bell Operating Companies or “Baby Bells”

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Roth Test:

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A standard court test for obscenity, named for one of the defendants in an obscenity case.

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Shield Laws:

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Laws that protect journalists from revealing their sources and/or the information that is communicated between journalists and their sources in a journalistic relationship.

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Telco:

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An abbreviation for Telephone Company.

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WIPO:

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World intellectual Property Organization.

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Ethics:

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The rules or standards that govern someone’s conduct.

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Disinformation:

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The intentional planting of false information by government sources.

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NAB:

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National association of broadcasters, the lobbying organization that represents broadcasters’ interests

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Checkbook Journalism:

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The term used to describe a news organization that pays for an interview.

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ABC:

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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BBC:

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British Broadcasting Corporation, the government funded British broadcast network

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Ethnocentric:

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Promoting the superiority of one ethnic group over another.

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Hot Spot:

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A public area like a restaurant or hotel where people with laptops and hand-held internet devices can connect to the Internet without a wire.

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IHT:

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International Herald Tribune, the world’s largest English-language newspaper.

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NWICO:

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New World Information and communications Order. That is the concept that media can include all areas of the world, not just the west