Thursday, May 1, 2014
For Class on 5/8: Midterm Review Blog
This week please use the blog to review for the exam. This will be available up until the exam. Feel free to post general or specific questions or thoughts and then respond to each other. You do not need to write anything more than brief blog entries but I strongly encourage you to check into the blog regularly to look for questions and to help share ideas to review for the exam. The more entries that each of you adds the better for everyone. Make sure to review other entries so that you have correct concepts before the exam. Maximum of one blog credit per person this week but you should feel free to post regularly.
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Can some one tell me where the media gets most of its revenue, and how does this shape goals? Thank you.
ReplyDeleteMedia as a economic institution
DeleteMedia Firms develop content and the audience is willing to pay for this access
- Most of the revenue from the media is coming from ads and these ads are paid for by third parties.
As an industry
-News is created by full profit companies that employ thousands of ppl (Journalist Etc.)
-For profit companies
-Thousands of employees
-multiple media organizations
*I hope this helps a little.
The Media: What it was, What it is and where it's going?
ReplyDeleteA.Political Communication goals-stable (2 general types)
1.Broad Political Communication-General roles is to target the masses
2. Targeted Political Communication Goals-Targets a specific group.
B. Political Communication Strategies
-The source of the message audience relationship
- Who has the ability to send information? Networks modify information and has the ability to send information.
- One to many = Few sources have the ability to send information -> Many to many= more sources have the ability to send information and more be have the ability to receive information.
C. Source-message-Audience relationship: What role does it play (Why does it matter, What role does it play?
-What tools are being used to transmit these messages?
- The format matters, it effects the speed of delivery. News is often inaccurate due to the need of speed.
- The size of the audience matters because it shows how much control they have ( What can they do to the message?)
D. Periods of Change (revolution) and stability (orders/regimes) in political communication history
-Orders= periods of stability over time: Mediums and institution norms create stability
- Revolutions= periods of major permanent change
Elite political Communication Order
- Conducted face to face, Except for newspapers. Newspapers at this point and time had a small circulation
- Post Office Act of 1792- subsidized newspapers: This allowed information to become widely available.
Broadcast Political Communication Order
- Now we see and hear the people that are delivering the news (Television and radio)
- More emotionally charged (Increased emotional response)
- More instant (increased speed)
- Imaged based politics
Information Political Communication Order
- How we sort through the abundance of information
- Relationship between audience and the source
Political Communication Revolutions
1.Stable order
2. New information communication (Technology is created)
3. ICT gains popularity and political viability
4. Initial trials for political communication( Politicians or political actors are able to use a new tool to achieve a political goal that they would have not been able to do otherwise)
5. Successful political innovations
6. Widespread copying and new status quo emerges
7. Stabilization of new order
8.Stable Communication order
Where are we today? Complicated
- Periods of technological layering (We have new forms of technology but they aren't replacing old ones)
- T.V still dominates
- Interactivity ( Info we receive and create)
- Audience fragmentation (more sources of variety)
*Periods of info overload which changes the consistency of the new changed.
What can we trust?
What is objectivity?
Objectivity: Facts, trying to find something truthful
Michael Schudson- Objectivity: "The belief in objectivity is a faith in facts, a distrust of values and a commitment to their segregation." Meaning its okay to have values but we need to keep values separate from facts.
Objectivity is something that we expect but we shouldn't.
Brief elaboration of the political communication goals.
DeleteBroad political communication goal: The media constitute a societal carrier for managing politically the public sphere.
Targeted political communication goal: Motivate political action/involvement
Woah, thank you so much.
DeleteNp!
DeleteI was studying and I got hung up on some of the real life examples of everything we have been learning so I was taking notes because I was interested. Most of it goes along with in class information we have looked at, but some of this stuff was really interesting to me. I thought I’d share it to show how all this really applies.
ReplyDeleteThere are six major companies that own about 90% of all news organizations, which is down from 50 in the 70’s-80’s.
News-Corp owns: Fox, Wall Street Journal, and New York Post
Disney owns: ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Miramax, and Marvel Studios
Viacom owns: MTV, Nickelodeon, CMT, and Paramount Pictures
Time Warner owns: CNN, HBO, Time, and Warner Brothers
CBS owns: Showtime, NFL.com, Jeopardy, and 60 minutes
GE used to own NBC and Comcast, but as of now they own neither anymore and Comcast is seen as its own superpower having now bought all of NBC’s stock shares from GE. This really highlights why it is such a big deal that Comcast is attempting to purchase Time Warner and consolidate media even further.
The revenue of these companies added up to about $272 Billion in 2009 and $275 Billion in 2010, I am having trouble finding anything more recent.
Some lists I found considered Sony and NBC to be part of the big 6 because they are primarily media based instead of News-Corp and Comcast.
News-Corp owns the top newspaper in America (WSJ), Europe (The Sun), and Australia (The Australian)
I just thought these facts were interesting and extremely applicable so I thought I’s share.
Can someone elaborate on net neutrality? And what is a good example of it.
ReplyDeleteNet Neutrality: the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites.
DeleteAn example would be that Comcast, the internet provider, cannot slow down HBO streaming or block HBO streaming because they have a contract with Netflix.
I have another question spinning off of this one. Why does the FCC care about net neutrality and what are its interests in this debate?
DeleteOne of the goal's of the FCC is to help sustain a competitive market (to protect the consumers' interests by maintaining the most appropriate price for goods and services) specifically regarding communications services such as the internet, television, radio, etc. Their concern with Net Neutrality (using Leah's example) is that if Comcast were to block HBO streaming would impede on fair competition, since Comcast and Netflix would basically be working together to control the market and limit the choices of the consumer. Sorry its kinda late, hope this helped!
DeleteCan someone tell me when the FCC was actually created?
ReplyDeleteIt was created June 19, 1934 by the Communications Act of 1934 (according to google)
DeleteWhy is the VALUE of journalism in American democracy fading? I can see why one would argue the value of print journalism is fading, but journalism as a whole?
ReplyDeleteWhat are the three muckraking models; simple, leaping, truncated?
ReplyDeleteFound it:
DeleteSimple Muckraking model: Journalistic Investigation ---> Publication ---> Public Opinion ---> Policy initiatives ---> Policy consequences
Leaping: skips one or more of these steps, but still ultimately effective, example would be 27% drop of arson immediately after 20/20 report.
Truncated model: the sequence is stopped at some point, resulting in a failed attempt to create change.
In case anyone is cramming last minute, I am a dork and make stupid (like really stupid) acronyms to remember some things and so I'll share them in case there is the slim chance they will help anyone but my strange self:
ReplyDeletePolitical Communication Orders: Elite, Mass, Broadcast, Information (EMBI: Everyone Makes Bad Investments)
Powers of the Media: Agenda Setting, Priming, Framing, Watchdog (APFW: All People Feel Weird)
Iron Core: Bearing witness, Following up, Explanatory journalism, Investigative reporting (BFEI: Biologists Find Evolution Interesting)
What is Newsworthy: Timely, Unusual, Interesting, About People, Personally Relevent (TUPRIAP: Taking Usual PRecautions Is APpropriate)
I know, I'm embarrassing, but hopefully some of you are as weird as me and find this helpful
Can someone tell me more about the identifications at the bottom of the first page? sound bites, deregulation, and Brian Williams? Is deregulation meant by the addition of many more news sources, like the internet, so we have a deregulation of news coming in as opposed to just newspapers and radio/TV in the past? Or am I missing the point?
ReplyDeleteSound Bite- I believe is just a short excerpt or statement from a recorded interview from a t.v. or radio news source
ReplyDeleteDeregulation- My understanding is it's a process where the government just limits or takes away certain policies of t.v stations, newspapers, etc. so I think you're right
Brian Williams- I have nothing except he's the anchor on NBC Nightly News haha