Intro to Communications- Chris Babb

Convergence

the coming together of computing, telecommunications, and media in a digital environment

what are the three types of convergence?

technological, economic, cultural

Consolidation

traditional media companies growing fewer and much larger through mergers and acquisitions.

Digital Native

grew up with digital media

Digital Immigrant

grew up with analog media

Time shifting

recording video or audio for later viewing or listening

Place Shifting

the practice of accessing stored media from different locations

Surveillance

info about processes, issues, events, and other developments in society, primarily connected to journalism.

Correlation

media interpretation of events and issues that help individuals understand roles within a larger society.

Cultural Transmission

transference of dominant culture and subcultures from one generation to the next or to immigrants.

Entertainment

function performed by other 3 activities and content designed specifically to entertain.

trends in media ownership

Successful media enterprises becomes larger in size and scope by acquiring through purchases or merger other media enterprises.

Inventor of the printing press

Johannes Gutenberg

produsers

people who create and consume

Media Literacy

critically analyzing what we consume.

Media Framing

particular presentation and communication of messages influences our perception of it or How we present a story.

Media Grammar

Medium's underlying rules, structures, and patterns that influence audience use and understanding

Conglomerates

Function of Newspapers

Surveillance: informing the public of important events

function of Books

Agents for social change, important cultural repository, windows on the past, sources of personal development, source of entertainment, and mirrors culture.

Who is Benjamin Day?

Penny press, which made newspapers affordable and introduced advertisements.

Circulation

people who subscribe and how many subscribe

Readership

how many people read it regardless if they are subscribed or not.

Penny Press

newspapers that sold for a penny in the 1830s

Dime Novel

books affordable to everyone and only cost a dime.

trends in readership of newspapers

decreased because everything's online

Functions of recording Industry

podcasting and satellite radio.

Recording Industry Business Model

In Mashup videos, everyone sticks to what's popular and makes the most money.

Broadcasting

the distribution of content, either audio or video, to a large dispersed audience by means of any medium of electronic mass communications.

Functions of Radio

medium of news and entertainment around the world. Broadcasts important information in remote rural areas. Used globally for emergency broadcasts.

Mathew B. Brady

arranged the civil war bodies for a photograph.

How radio adjusted to TV

-found it could concentrate on news b/w 6-9 am and 3:30-6.

-drive time- day part

-bc drams had gone to tv, radio changed format to music with DJ's

Holly wood Movie Moguls

Walt disney (mickey mouse and cartoons) warner brothers, read up on page 129 and 130

Common theme across all platforms with regard to "adapting to stay alive"

They have to change their format to stay relative. For example Newspapers became digital, to keep up with technology, books as well, radio moved into cars so that they are still useful because you can't watch tv in the car. Television tries to stay relative by changing what it puts out during the day. ( kids shows/ old movies because most people who don't have/use their phones very often are old people and kids who aren't allowed to have phones yet.)