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What principle did the telephone adapt from telegraphy?

  • The transmission of images
  • The transmission of data packets
  • The transmission of video content
  • The transmission of voice (correct)
  • Which type of convergence involves the merging of Internet companies with traditional media companies?

  • Technological Convergence
  • Economic Convergence (correct)
  • Digital Convergence
  • Cultural Convergence
  • What is a characteristic of centralized media organizations?

  • Collaboration among various companies
  • Multiple independent units controlling functions
  • Decentralized production and distribution methods
  • Functions controlled by a single individual or unit (correct)
  • What change occurs in cultural convergence regarding audience participation?

    <p>A shift from passive audience to a public that produces and shares content</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do digital media affect traditional technologies?

    <p>They often change our use and perception of traditional technologies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term describes individuals who grew up with digital media?

    <p>Digital natives</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the 24/7 media environment?

    <p>Limited audience interaction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does User-Generated Content (UGC) enable audiences to do?

    <p>Create and share their own content</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is 'behavioral targeting' in digital marketing?

    <p>An advertising technique based on user preferences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which model describes the interactive nature of audience communication in the digital era?

    <p>Converged audience communication</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a significant challenge that arises from increased digital communication?

    <p>Confusion over privacy concepts</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What best describes 'citizen journalism'?

    <p>Audience contributions to news stories without formal training</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which term refers to the information saved on hard drives that tracks web habits?

    <p>Cookies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What distinguishes meditated interpersonal communication from traditional interpersonal communication?

    <p>It involves the use of an external medium.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following describes asynchronous media?

    <p>Allows audiences to participate at their own convenience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one of the potential drawbacks of cultural transmission in mass communication?

    <p>It may create a homogenized culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which function of mass communication involves providing information about societal processes and events?

    <p>Surveillance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What potential impact does correlation in mass communication have on public opinion?

    <p>It helps shape individuals' understanding of societal roles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which term refers to the act of recording an audio or video event for later viewing?

    <p>Timeshift</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a potential negative effect of entertainment within mass communication?

    <p>It could lead to escapism and lowbrow content.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does media literacy primarily involve?

    <p>Critically analyzing media content</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following best describes 'framing' in media literacy?

    <p>The presentation of a message that influences perception</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How do digital media affect the distinction between interpersonal and mass communication?

    <p>They blend characteristics of both types.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who introduced the concept of the dual sign comprised of signifier and signified?

    <p>Ferdinand de Saussure</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which medium is noted for having a sophisticated media grammar due to its long history?

    <p>Print media</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does digital media's grammar evolve?

    <p>Without communication devices</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What concern do contemporary researchers share regarding media?

    <p>It may influence children's values and behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What types of techniques does radio utilize?

    <p>Volume changes and sound effects</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which aspect of film and television is highlighted as having an intricate grammar?

    <p>Editing and camera angles</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a distinguishing feature of magazines compared to newspapers?

    <p>Higher-quality paper</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What trend is increasingly critical for newspapers in the online environment?

    <p>Understanding and measuring audiences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What must newspapers develop to adapt to changing revenue models?

    <p>Drastic incentives for digital subscriptions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which statement is true regarding the current magazine industry?

    <p>Ownership consolidation is affecting contemporary magazines.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the role of muckrakers in the development of magazines?

    <p>They pioneered investigative reporting.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has aided reading activity in the context of magazines?

    <p>Higher resolution and larger screens</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following describes a collaboration trend among newspapers?

    <p>Partnering with other media outlets</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a major trend regarding local news coverage in newspapers?

    <p>Increasing emphasis on local coverage.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Telephony

    • Telephony adapted telegraphy's principles adding transmission of voice
    • Cell phones increased spontaneity and phone use, implementing a variety of functions

    Three Types of Convergence

    • The coming together of computing, telecommunications, and media in a digital environment
    • Three types of convergence are economic, technological, and cultural
    • Specific types of media such as print, audio, and video, converge into digital media form

    Economic Convergence

    • Merging of Internet or telecommunication companies with traditional media companies is Economic Convergence
    • Consolidation: Traditional media companies growing smaller and much larger through mergers and acquisitions

    Cultural Convergence

    • Globalization of media content
    • Consumption, creation, and distribution of content
    • Shift from passive audience to public that produces and shares content cheaply

    Implications of Convergence

    Media organization

    • Centralized - Functions of media--including productions, distribution, marketing, and advertising--are controlled by a single individual or unit
    • Converged - Functions of media may be de-centralized via the Internet, inviting more diffuse methods of production, distribution, marketing, and advertising

    Media type

    • How we engage with and what constitutes media are in flux.Different media are regulated differently with other protections and restrictions

    Media content

    • Hyperlinks - Connect online content to other content and stories
    • Digital natives grew up with digital media; digital immigrants grew up with analog media
    • Digitized content - Computer-readable media transforming production cycle and process

    Media use

    • 24/7 media environment - the ability to always be "on" and "connected"
    • Media companies need content to fill the time
    • We live in a multi-screen world, although Internet access and benefits remain unequal

    Media distribution

    • Media is distributed globally

    Media audience

    • Audiences are increasingly active in media use and distribution, bypassing corporate control
    • Viral Marketing: Rapid information travels through the Internet, "word-of-mouth"
    • Peer-to-peer (P2P): Individual file sharing
    • User-Generated content (UGC): Digital media enable audiences to develop content

    Media profession

    • Producers: Audiences who both use and consume contemporary media; can be both passive recipients and active creators.Convergence changing how professionals do their jobs
    • Divisions among different activities fading

    Attitudes and values

    • The era of digital media requires learning new skills while maintaining professional ethics and standards
    • Citizen journalism: Interactive relationship wherein audiences contribute to story content and/or correction
    • No formal training in journalism is required
    • With increased global digital communication comes increased desire for transparency and methods for gaining trust
    • Confusion over traditional notions of privacy for individuals and companies
    • Behavioral targeting: Advertising technique drawn from the information we readily share through our digital footprint
    • Cookies: Information archived on hard drives that allow for digital tracking of our web habits.

    Mass Communication in the Digital Age

    • Traditional mass communication: communication to a large group or groups of people largely unknown to the sender of the message
    • Traditional interpersonal communication: communication between two or more individuals, often in a small group, although it can involve communication between a live speaker and an audience
    • Traditional interpersonal communication: usually interactive; flows at least two ways; tends not to be anonymous; involves both verbal and nonverbal messages
    • Meditated interpersonal communication: takes place through an external medium, such as a telephone, IM, text, chatroom, or Twitter; visual cues are often absent; online medium blurs lines between interpersonal and mass communication
    • Mass Media: technological means of communicating between large numbers of people distributed widely over space or time
    • In the traditional model, content creators represent and define reality
    • Synchronous media: audiences assemble simultaneously for broadcast, transmission, or event, such as live TV or radio
    • Asynchronous media: audiences can attend on their own time, such as with printed materials or recorded audio or video
    • Timeshift: recording of an audio or video event for later
    • Digital media blur lines between interpersonal and mass communication, each adopting characteristics of the other
    • Examples include email, weblogs, Twitter
    • Mass communication entertainment and information generate interaction and conversation

    Functions of Mass Communication

    • Surveillance
    • Correlation
    • Cultural transmission
    • Entertainment

    Surveillance

    • Information about processes, issues, events, and other developments in society, primarily connected to journalism
    • Potential that too much bad news promotes skewed or apathetic responses

    Correlation

    • Media interpretation of events and issues that help individuals understand roles within larger society
    • Journalism, advertising, and PR help shape public opinion; media can help maintain social stability
    • Potential to thwart change and favor interests

    Cultural Transmission

    • Transference of dominant culture and subculture(s) from one generation to the next or to immigrants
    • Includes socialization, which helps people learn the rules of society
    • Potential for a homogenized culture that promotes mindless consumption

    Entertainment

    • Function performed by other three activities and content designed specifically to entertain
    • Potential to encourage lowbrow entertainment and escapism
    • Potential to perpetuate stereotypes

    Media Literacy

    • The process of critically analyzing media content
    • Including its particular presentation 
    • Underlying political or social messages
    • Media ownership or regulation

    Ferdinand de Saussure

    • Dual sign comprised of signifier (form) and signified (what form represents)

    Rene Magritte's "This is not a pipe"

    • Example of how a sign (the image) can be interpreted based on its signifier and signified

    Umberto Eco

    • Framing:
      • Particular presentation and communication of message influences our perception of it.
      • Audiences must classify, organize, and interpret media information
      • Frameworks, or schemas, simplify the complex
      • Like signs, frames appear natural and often go unquestioned.

    Media Grammar

    • Medium's underlying rules, structures, and patterns that influence audience use and understanding
    • Sophisticated media grammar because of long history
    • Books, newspapers, and magazines

    Radio and Recorded Music

    • Radio: Audio techniques include volume changes, multiple audio tracks, actualities, sound effects, and voice-overs
    • Record music - Particular stylistic conventions include song length and music formats

    Film and Television

    • Intricate media grammar based on editing, camera angles, lighting, movement, and sound
    • The film uses cross-cut scenes to tell more complex and dramatic stories
    • TV uses film techniques with smaller production budgets
      • Different TV genres have different grammars

    Digital Media

    • Media grammar evolves without communication devices.Digital adopts traditional forms while creating new ways for us to interact with media
    • The grammar of mobile and social networking media has become increasingly important.

    Newspapers

    • Six major trends
      • More newspaper executives are outsiders with little appreciation or understanding of industries unique aspects
      • Digital subscriptions models will likely need to offer drastic incentives
      • Understanding and measuring audiences increasingly critical in online world
      • Local coverage is increasingly important
      • Smaller but more numerous revenue streams need to be developed
      • Collaborations with other media outlets must occur to offer a complex mix of media that includes print newspapers

    Magazines

    • Distinctive functions of magazines are surveillance, correlation, entertainment, and marketing
    • Longer treatment of topics
    • Published at regular but less frequent intervals
    • Higher-quality, paper such as glossy magazines

    History of Magazines to Today

    • Early histories of magazines and newspapers interwoven
      • Overlapping technological, business, and journalistic/entertainment functions helped spur development of modern mass media
    • 19th-century magazines helped young America define itself and reach nationwide audience
    • Muckrakers pioneered investigative reporting of corrupt practices in government and business
    • Specialized magazines supplant general-interest publications to compete with TV for adventures in the 1950s

    Current magazine-industry issues

    • As of 2020, there were about 7,400 print consumer magazines on various topics in the U.S., the highest since 2009

    Sales and Readership of Magazines

    • Contemporary magazines increasingly subject to ownership consolidation and media concentration
    • Established magazine moving to online-only editions
    • Hundreds of new magazines titles are published every year, but most do not survive more than two years

    Outlook for Magazines

    • Relatively large screens and high resolution have helped increase reading activity, even longer-form content
    • Print magazines both expensive to produce and environmentally friendly
    • Type of magazine content may not change much, but the way in which we see it will

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    Explore the principles of telephony and the three types of convergence: economic, technological, and cultural. This quiz delves into how traditional media and telecommunications intersect in a digital landscape, affecting global content consumption and production. Test your knowledge on these critical topics in modern media!

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