new media

Examples of new media in the following topics:

• Mass Media and Technology

  • The term media comes from Latin meaning, "middle," suggesting that the media's function is to connect people.
  • Media bias refers the bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media.
  • This approach theoretically allows diverse views to appear in the media.
  • The apparent bias of media is not always specifically political in nature.
  • The news media tend to appeal to a specific audience.

• The Role of the Media

  • In 1950, the idea of gatekeeping was officially applied to news.
  • David Manning White looked at the factors an editor takes into consideration when deciding which news will make the paper and which news will not.
  • As it happened, he retained all copy (news stories) that he rejected from the paper.
  • Media are often referred to as synonymous with mass media or news media, but may refer to a single medium used to communicate any data for any purpose.
  • The Internet has provided a means for newspapers and other media organizations to deliver news and, significantly, the means to look up old news.

• Propaganda and the Mass Media

  • Mass media can be employed to manipulate populations to further the power elite's agenda.
  • Herman and Noam Chomsky to explain how propaganda and systemic biases function in mass media.
  • The theory posits that the way in which news is structured (e.g. through advertising, concentration of media ownership, government sourcing) creates an inherent conflict of interest which acts as propaganda for undemocratic forces.
  • During the Gulf War (1990), the media's failure to report on Saddam Hussein's peace offers guided the public to look more favorably on the U.S. government's actions.
  • Evaluate the impact of mass media as propaganda, particularly in terms of the "power elite"

• Education and Health

  • The eHealth literacy model is also referred to as the Lily model, which incorporates the following literacies, each of which are instrumental to the overall understanding and measurement of eHealth literacy: basic literacy, computer literacy, information literacy, media literacy, science literacy, health literacy.
  • Three former directors of the Global Smallpox Eradication Program read the news that smallpox had been globally eradicated in 1980.

• Panic

  • These panics are generally fuelled by media coverage of social issues (although semi-spontaneous moral panics do occur and some moral panics have historically been fueled by religious missions, governmental campaigns, and scientific mobilizing against minority groups that used media outlets to further their claims), and often include a large element of mass hysteria.
  • A widely circulated and new-seeming urban legend is frequently involved.
  • The term was coined by Stanley Cohen in 1972 to describe media coverage of Mods and Rockers in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.

• Gatekeeping

  • Outside of media organizations, individuals can also act as gatekeepers, deciding what information to include in an email or in a blog, for example.
  • Originally focused on the mass media with its few-to-masses dynamic, theories of gatekeeping also now include the workings of face-to-face communication and the many-to-many dynamic now easily available via the Internet.
  • According to Pamela Shoemaker and Tim Vos, gatekeeping is the "process of culling and crafting countless bits of information into the limited number of messages that reach people everyday. " Gatekeeping as a news process was identified in the literature as early as 1922, though not yet given a formal theoretical name.
  • Censorship is the suppression of speech or other public communication that may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.

• Rumors

  • Media and particular cultural-historical conditions may facilitate a rumor's diffusion.
  • In 2006, Jayson Harsin introduced the concept of the "rumor bomb" to describe the widespread phenomenon of rumoresque communication in contemporary relations between media and politics, especially within the complex convergence of multiple forms of media, from cell phones and internet, to radio, TV, and print.
  • A rapid diffusion via highly developed electronically mediated societies where news travels fast.

• Education and Industrialization

  • Among these are computers in the classroom, a website for every class, class blogs and wikis, wireless classroom microphones, online media, and interactive whiteboards.
  • Among these are computers in the classroom; a website for every class; class blogs and wikis; wireless classroom microphones; and online media and interactive whiteboards.
  • With a computer in the classroom, teachers are able to demonstrate a new lesson, present new material, illustrate how to use new programs, and show new websites

• Gender Messages in Mass Media

  • In mass media, women tend to have less significant roles than men, and are often portrayed in stereotypical roles, such as wives or mothers.
  • Gender socialization occurs through four major agents: family, education, peer groups, and mass media.
  • The music video for "Pimp," a song by 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, and G-Unit, demonstrates how harmful gender messages can be disseminated through mass media.
  • The music video for "PIMP," a song by 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, and G-Unit, demonstrates how gender messages are disseminated through mass media.
  • Discuss the types of gender socialization people get from viewing various types of media

• Charismatic Authority

  • In order to help to maintain their charismatic authority, such regimes will often establish a vast cult of personality, which is signaled when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods to create an idealized and heroic public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.
  • When the leader of such a state dies or leaves office and a new charismatic leader does not appear, such a regime is likely to fall shortly thereafter unless it has become fully routinized.