What is Nomophobia?
Feeling anxiety about not having access to a mobile phone or phone service
Addiction?
Spending a lot of time in your electronic devices up to 40-80 hours peer week
Brainstorming
A technique to rapidly generate ideas by storming the brains natrual pathways without judgment or filtering.
Define Mass Communication
ocures between mass media and their audience. Mass media encompasses TV, radio, music, the internet, video games, newspapers, books, smartphones, and movies, as well as the industries that support these platforms, such as advertising and public relations.
Define Interpersonal communication
Talking to a person is interpersonal between you guys like calls and texts.
Interpersonal communication vs Mass Communication
Interpersonal is direct, personal, and interactive, and happens between a few people, with immediate feedback.
Mass Communication to a vast, anonymous audience via media (Tv, radio, web) with delayed or no direct feedback, focusing on broad reach.
Smartphone Use
Research has linked attention spans and disengagement from friends and family.
- texting while driving, like producing a slower reaction time
-Issues: addiction, cyberbullying, children’s access to inappropriate material, loss of privacy.
-creating groups so people can get to know eachother
Gatekeepers
( the media)
are individuals or institutions (like editors, producers, algorithms ) who control the flow of information, deciding what news, stories, or content gets selected, shaped, and shared with the pubic, effectively opening or closing the “gate” to information
Government Regulation
The media involves law and agencies like the U.S. FCC setting rules for communication platforms, balancing free speech (1st amendment) with public interests, managing scarce resources (airways) to modern issues like social media age verification, with ongoing debate between protecting public interests and fostering innovation/deregulation.
-setting standards for broadcast content,o ownership
-programs to help itizens analyze, evaluate, and create media responsibly, tackling misinformation and ensuring a diverse fai information environment.
Net neutrality
The principle that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are stealing our information.
Platform Agnostic
Prioritizing content over the medium, accessing songs or books through various platforms without loyalty to a specific one.
ex: like you don’t care where you listen to a song, you just want to listen.
Concentration of ownership
The ownership of many different media companies by an increasingly small number of conglomerates has reduced the diversity of media sources available to consumers
ex: a town has 5 local radio stations, eachone is owned by diffrent company, so different voices, music style, and perspective,s but then one ig compony buys the controlling interest in them.
Cultivation Theory
More exposure = more impact
shapes viewers’ perceptions of reality, making them believe the world is like the media portrays it, leading to fear, stereotypes, beliefs, eading to mean world syndrome.
Mean World Syndrome
Because Tv often exaggerates crime and conflict, leading viewers to adopt the view of reality where people see the world as more dangerous and untrustworthy.
Agenda Setting
- Not what to think, but what to think about
-amount of attention
-Profil-based decisions
by highlighting certain issues, making them seem more important to the pubic through repetition and emphasis, influencing public perception and policy.
Define Media literacy
Critically analyze stories presented in the mass media and to deterin their accuracy or credibility.
media effects on individuals, Society
individual (micro level) and society (macro level)
Individuals can foster critical thinking, reducing vulnerability to misinformation, and improving decisions-making
Socatal effects include promoting engaged citizenship, bridging cultural divides, combating polarization, and encouraging responsible media creation for healthier public discourse and more inclusive communities
What is ARMED
Acknowleding, and Rejecting the Media’s influence on Eating and body image Disturbace.
What is Proft Motavation
As content producers decide which stories are “important,” their primary consideration is money. The media are a business, financially gain rather than informing the public.
Children as media consumers
There has been a particular focus on children’s media literacy, as kids are an especially vulnerable media audience. They use them to make moey they are exposed to mature content at a young age, toxic and bad language, and violence
What is the FCC?
Federal Communications Commission
Examples: Radio, Tv, wire, internet, wifi, satellite, and cable
What is the ISP’s?
Internet Service Providerstrality selling our information
Mental Health issues
Two big ones are depression and anxiety
-negative: drama, pressure, and comparison
-positive, funny videos, extended relationship-feeling accepted. and academic performance.
Role in democracy
Equipping citizens to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media messages, enabiling hem to discern truth from falsehood, resist propaganda, and understand basics
