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66 Cards in this Set
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Gatekeepers |
Media people who influence messages en route |
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Harold Lasswell |
Narrative Communication Model - Who says what? In which Channel? to whom? to what effect? |
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George Eastman |
Developed Celluloid Film. Kodak (likes K) |
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Robert de Graaf |
Introduced the modern paperback which was called the pocket book; 25cents each |
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Vitascope |
First film Projector (1895) |
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Johannes Gutenberg |
Metallurgist who invented movable metal type in mid-1440s (invented the printing press) |
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Joseph Maxfield |
Helped the technological progression towards the invention of the jukebox |
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Concentric Circle Model |
Presents mass-communication as a pond ripple. The message is dropped into the pond, and the ripples represent the different influences on the message, the recipient and the sender |
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Joseph Niepce |
Took the first photo in 1826 |
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Matthew Brady |
U.S. Civil War Photographer. Photos of generals etc. before battle and dead confederate soldiers. Photography as manipulation |
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Philo Farnsworth |
Created the image dissector (breaks up picture into different sections to be sent like radio) Sent the first television picture in 1927 |
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Halftone Printing |
Developed by Cornell University in 1870s Divided photograph into a grid with each part of the grid having a raised dot. The bigger the dot, the more ink Allowed images in newspapers |
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Bay Psalm Book |
First printed book in the colonies |
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Silver Halide |
1727 light causes silver nitrate to darken |
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Geosynchronous Satellites |
Stay in same position over Earth as Earth rotates/revolves |
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Thomas Edison |
Inventor of Phonograph Hired William Dickson to invent Motion Picture Camera |
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Lumiere Brothers |
Invented the motion picture camera/projector in France. Smaller and could shoot, process, and project, unlike Dickson's |
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William Dickson |
Developed first movie camera (kinetograph). Worked for Edison |
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Semiconductor |
Transmits data in spurts(packets) Resulted in massive changes in the way data was transmitted.
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ARPAnet |
Origin of the Internet. Originally only sharing text; essentially early email |
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Diamond Sutra |
First printing technology 868 AD |
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BBC Funding |
Programming set after funds are obtained in order to prevent government from controlling the media |
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Mary Baker Eddy |
Founder of the Christian Science Church and Monitor |
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Christian Science Monitor |
Response to the scandalous journalism of the time. Mission is to "injure no man, but to bless all mankind" |
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Associated Press |
World's largest news gathering organization, a nonprofit and cooperatively owned by members of newspapers |
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Legals |
Paid advertising required by law, usually verbatim government documents |
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Benjamin Day |
Published the New York Sun |
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New York Sun |
Sold on the streets of New York for a penny a copy |
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Penny Press |
Penny a day newspaper and was affordable. Introduced in 1833 |
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CPM |
Cost per 1000 |
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Copyright (time) |
Books become public domain 70 years after the death of the author |
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Trade books |
General-interest titles, including fiction and nonfiction. ex: Harry Potter, etc. |
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Advance |
Payment to author to tide them over until royalties come in. Essentially an upfront gamble on the author |
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Royalty |
Residuals paid to the original creating company or copyright holder |
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Napster |
Pirating Music. Record industry loses tons of money. Shut down by the government. Created by Shawn Fanning |
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Shawn Fanning |
Creator of Napster |
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Parents Music Resource Center |
Wanted to label records for explicit language. Music industry decided it would label music that had questionable lyrics |
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Gold Records |
Albums: 500k copies Singles: 1 million copies |
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Platinum Records |
Albums: 1 million copies Singles: 2 million copies |
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Postal Act of 1879 |
Send pound of periodicals for a penny Newspapers across the nation |
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Top 40 |
Formed by Gordon McGledon: top 40 songs from all genres |
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Payola |
Pay for play on radio
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Emile Berliner |
Introduced a way to record sound onto a metal disc. Allowed for the production of copies. 1887 |
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Edward Murrow |
Radio news broadcaster. Broadcasted while bombs were blowing up in England to the U.S. during WWII |
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AM Radio |
Amplitude Modulation Prone to static. Travels great distance because it bounces back from ionosphere |
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FM Radio |
Frequency Modulation Line of sight. Short distances, but better sound |
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Edwin Armstrong |
Inventor of the FM radio. Allowed for static free radio |
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David Sarnoff |
Employee of Marconi(inventor of radio). Had the vision for radio as a medium of mass communication. Proposed advertising to fund radio. NBC
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Joan Kroc |
McDonald's fortune $200 million dollars to NPR endowment |
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KDKA |
First Radio Station |
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FRC |
Early predecessor of the FCC (communications regulation) |
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WEAF |
First radio station to run advertisements |
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Arbitron |
Radio listener survey company |
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Hedy Lamarr (extra credit) |
Created hopping satellite. Actress |
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Margaret Bourke-White (extra credit) |
Siberian Photo |
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Joe Leblond (extra credit) |
Cajun hi- first record in Sugar Hill |
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Hippolyte Bayard (extra credit) |
Portrait of a dying man |
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David Geffen(extra credit) |
1st billionaire in Hollywood |
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William Randolph Hearst(extra credit) |
Owns the Houston chronicle. Hearst Corporation |
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Picture of old guy March 1923. (extra credit) |
First time magazine cover |
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Semantic Noise |
Miscommunication(stuttering, mispronunciation) |
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Channel Noise |
When the message being delivered is interrupted by the medium of communication (static bc lightning) |
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Environmental Noise |
Message being delivered is interrupted by the noise around the sender or receiver |
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Informational Filters |
Don't have enough information needed to decode message (e.g. wrong language) |
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Physical Filters |
Too tired, too much caffeine to focus, etc. |
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Psychological Filters |
Predisposed to disagree or not listen to what someone says. Everyone has their own psychological filters. |