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Media and Society, Purvis

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First projected movie
Lumiere Brothers
Life photographer
Margaret Bourke- White
Cable pioneer/ CNN founder
Ted Turner
Created the internet
Tim Barnes-Lee
Disc recording
Emile Berliner
On-line book sales
Jeff Bezos
Magazine Muckraker
Ida Tarbell
Watergate investigative reporter
Guglielmo Mareconi
Rock and roll forerunner
Louis Jordan
Radio DJs
Alan Freed/ Wolfman Jack
Three of innovations or contributions associated with magazine journalism
long form essay, color, layout
Two current popular radio formats
Country, news talk
Three giant media conglomerate
Disney, Ganett, and Time-Warner
Format dominated record sales for more than two decades from the late 1980s until 2011
CD's
Record format developed in the late 1940s and high- quality sound but only about four minutes of music per side
45s
The President responsible for the nickname about reporters
Teddy Roosevelt
These three performers were part group Sun Studio group
Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley
This radio formats audience increased by 9.5 million listeners
Sports
A President who used the radio "Fireside Chats"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Idaho Farm boy who developed with television
Philo Fransworth
First licensed commercial radio Format
KDKA Pittsburg
What technology breakthrough marked the opening of the Print Wave
Moveable Type
Who was responsible for this print wave breakthrough
Gutenburg
Who launched the "Penny Press" in 1833
Benjamin Day
Benjamin Day publication depended primarily upon what?
advertisements
Largest Cable TV system operator also owns NBC/ Universal
Comcast
ABC and ESPN are owned by this company
Disney
A annual event that attracts large U.S. television audience
Super Bowl
What does CATV stand for
Community antenna Television system
Demographics
Target a specific audience (race, class, sex)
Edward R. Murrow
Was a major broadcaster during WWII as well as TV
Henry Luce
Created Time Magazine and then Life Magazine she created a huge conglomerate
Rupert Murdoch
Created 21 Century Fox and News corp.
Explain this sentence "The journalists of today and tomorrow must be multi- dimensional"
Journalists must be able to gather and share information in many different ways, and platform
Why cable television developed
Cable television was originally created for rural area that couldn't get television connection. A wire (cable) would run from the top of a hill and connect to the TV. Then they expanded to connected to a satellite
The Strains of American Journalism
Sensationalism main stream media publishing and television program.
Muckraking is investigating reporting.
Yellow journalism is manipulative reporting that could get the reader or viewer the wrong idea.
Rise of the significance of youth culture and origins of rock and roll and how music is related to sound recording and radio
Overtime newspaper has dropped in popularity. Many people turn to the internet for the news rather then buying the newspaper. Newspaper isn't dying but it is not going to grow anytime soon. With social media information is in our hands and it can be found out in minutes. Many newspaper make it accessible online which is another way readers can find information. Newspaper isn't going to die just isn't going to grow either.
John Peter Zengar
He established the principle that truth is a defense for libel and helped provide basis for principle of press freedom
Representative sample
a targeted group whose characteristics represent as accurately as possible the entire group or population
Media convergence
the blending or overlapping in media functions as technologies, of print, electronic, and photographic media
Newsworthiness
the often unstated criteria that journalists use to determine which events and issues should be reported
FCC
Federal Communications Commission
Domain Names
extensions of Web address "edu." indicate organizations of a Web site
Attack ads
Negative political ads contain criticism of a candidate
Crisis Management
strategic response to uncontrolled negative publicity about a individual
Cultural imperialism
one culture dominance over another
Integrated marketing communications
process of promotional tools like advertisements
Shield Laws
protect confidential sources
Soft News
news often reported on straight facts and quotes
CNN effect
television, emotional- raising video, elevate distant issues EX: Bush family
Cord Cutting
canceling or forgoing cable TV subscription for internet based or wireless service
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vocabulary
Write the part of speech above each italicized word: N (noun), pro. (pronoun), V (verb), adj. (adjective), adv. (adverb), prep. (preposition), or conj. (conjunction). $\mathit{This}$ $\mathit{horse}$ should run $\mathit{freely}$.
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question
The following sentence is in the passive voice. Above the sentence, rewrite it in the active voice. The pictures had been developed by the new technician.
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history
How may a historian's description of a battle reveal information about his or her own society or culture?
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history of the americas
In your opinion, do the same attitudes about manifest destiny exist today that John L. O'Sullivan said meant that the American settlers should "possess the whole continent that Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and . . . self-government"?
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