SOCIOLOGY UNIT 2: MASS MEDIA

What do sociologists mean by mass media?

What are some examples of traditional media and new media?

What is meant by The Press?

What is meant by Broadcasting?

What is meant by electronic media?

What are some developments in the technology of the mass media?

What are some changing patterns of consumption of the media?

What 4 issues are the public repeatedly told wrong information about in the media?

In what way to the media present young people?

What is meant by socially constructed and what is normally socially constructed in the media?

What is meant by norm referencing?

What is meant by news values?

What is meant by agenda setting?

What is political socialization and how does the media influence our views on this?

What are 4 different ways to how audience's respond to the media?

What is the Hypodermic Syringe Theory?

What statistics show that the Hypodermic Syringe theory isn't necessarily true?

What is the Uses & Gratification Approach?

What is the Decoding Approach?

What is product placement?

What is the halo effect?

What is the horns effect?

What is the PLURALIST approach to media ownership and control?

What is the MARXIST approach to media ownership and control?

What is meant by deviancy amplification?

What is meant by mass popular culture?

What is meant by objectification of women in the media?

What are some explanations for how far sociologists would agree that the mass media present a stereotype of women?

What do sociologists mean by globalisation?