SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Korean Air, Albert Bandura, Media Consumption
12 Apr 2016
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Interactionist framework people make choices about their media consumption. Entman (1991) framing within the media: sizing, agency ex. Use of humanizing terms encourages identification (innocent human beings), whereas neutral terms (civilians) discourage identification: categorization refers to the overall framework used to label an event by the media. Korean airline event was categorized as an attack rather than a tragedy: generalization refers to the extent to which a media story is generalized to a larger political system or issue. Flood in pakistan was generalized to other things vs. natural disasters in the west. Because the flood place was where the taliban had fled, the response to the flood from western countries was really bad media represented the. Pakistan flood in the way that the taliban were the only people affected by the flood. Generalizing taliban with flood story consumerism intertwined with the media: reminds us that we are a consumer based society, advertisement effects people"s consumerism on a daily basis.
