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The end of my glossary, all chapters.
Thank you Ravi!
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Ch. 12 Privacy
The right of people to protect certain aspects of their personal lives from the media. Such rights do not exist in Britain in any formal way and they are weak in the United States.
Example: Hollywood celebrities, who are often seen harassed by the paparazzi, TMZ for example, while often wish/request to be left alone, have no authority to make them stop. In the US, you are allowed to film anyone and everything if it’s on the legal premise of public property.
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Ch. 12 Free-Market Economies
The general approach to commerce, positing that a free market is the most efficient way to creating and allocating social resources.
Example: A supply and demand sort of buisness quota, in that if a country, say Japan wish to purchase lumber from British Columbia, they may make an order/request, in return for currency or other goods.
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Ch. 12 Public Interest
The investment that national group or other policy has in preserving or developing the best of its values and ideals.
Example: In 2003, when the US went to war with Iraq, then president George W. Bush declared the event, a state of national security, and that the capture and occupation of Iraq’s WMD’s was in public interest to the citzens of the United States.
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Ch. 12 Public Policy
The set of rules, laws, and practices that govern the operation of communication sectors.
Example: The minimum wage act, and it’s avocation for a $15 dollar minimum wage currently being engaged in the United States.
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Ch. 11 Spatialization
The process of overcoming the constraints of space and time, typically applied to organizations such as media companies.
Example: A social space typical of a time, place or culture, that media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have tapped into.
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Ch. 11 Cultural Dependency
relationship in which one country comes to rely on the media products of stronger, exporting countries to satisfy the cultural and entertainment needs of its population.
Example: Due to the insignificants, and tiny movie making trade in Australia, the country looks to import movies from Hollywood and Europe to satisfy the populations needs for films.
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Ch. 11 World Systems Theory
A theory articulated by Immanuel Wallerstein that focuses on the relationship between nation-states in a global economic system. The theory categorized nations as core, peripheral, and semi-peripheral states depending on the role they play in the international economic system.
Example: Core countries are the dominate countries that exploit weaker countries (peripheral) for resources and money. Like the British Empire during the 16th century.
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Ch. 11 Proximitry
The degree of closeness, which can be physical, cultural, or emotional closeness.
Example: The general area in which a certain news story or pieces of information is actually relevant to the area. Such as; a certain event happening in Portland, Oregon, is illrelavent in a place like, Moscow, Russia, and vise-versa.
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Ch. 11 Fordism
The concentration of production on a single site modeled after Henry Ford’s automobile assembly lines, whereby raw materials are turned into standardized finished products as part of a single, multi-faceted mass-production process.
Example: For most of the major news outlets, most repackage, and reproduce stories they purchase from certain journalist entities.
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Ch. 11 Media Geography
The physical space that any given media organization occupies and seeks to serve. For example: a national television network occupies and serves audiences and advertisers within a given country.
Example: AMC or American Basic Cable is generally based and broadcasted in America, specifically the west coast, butt have recently shifted to Canada and parts of Europe.
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Ch. 10 Unbundling
The breaking up of the content packages assembled by legacy media, such as radio, television, magazines, and newspapers. New media technologies allow users to access individual articles and programs from the websites or apps of legacy media organizations themselves or through social media.
Example: The CNN app on android and IOS allows the potential user to scroll, search, and pick-and-choose which article they may or may not want to read/watch.
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Ch. 10 Libel Chill
The threat, real or imagined, and under which authors and publishers live, that they will be accused of libel and need to expend considerable sums of money to defend themselves, especially when publishing controversial or critical material about powerful people and institutions; this threat often leads to self-censorship as a form of protection.
Example: Edward Snowden and his leak of America’s large scale surveillance program. This was an example of a single individual up against a large entity. This led to him fleeing the country and staying quite for a while for his protection.
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Ch. 10 Signifier
The physical form of the sign -- for instance, symbols such as words.
Example: Iconic and symbolic signs, such as drawing a house represents a house.
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Ch. 10 Fourth Estate
The media; refers to the role of the media in watching over the other powerful institutions in society.
Example: The press do a very good job in shaping the course of politics, more commonly known as the “Fourth Branch of Government”.
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Ch. 10 Freedom of the Press
(1) The freedom of the press and other media to exercise the right to free speech, usually in the name of the public good; (2) The freedom of press and other media owners to pursue market interests unhindered by the state; this freedom is not absolute, but subject to certain legal limits.
Example: Controversial media entities like Breitbart, and InfoWars are allowed to produce content, no matter how controversial it may seem.
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Ch. 10 Framing
Both a noun and a verb drawing attention to the boundaries a picture, story, or other means of communication places on that to which it refers; these boundaries tend to limit the range of interpretation by audiences or privilege particular readings.
Example: Framing a celebrity as a drug user, or for speeding in a yellow Lamborghini, etc.
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