MAC 143 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neil Postman, Cultural Conservatism, Bowling Alone
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Ideas/terms you need to understand for the exam: Amusing ourselves to death: what: a book by neil postman, context: there"s so much entertainment that it blocked individual thoughts/ideas. Liberal critique concepts how to understand - 3 categories. Liberal critique: debate of ideas, citizens who live in democracies, and democracies only work if we as citizens participate in them, we can"t just mindlessly partake in them, tv doesn"t inform/educate citizens to participate. **helpful hints: study terms in relationship to one another, compare/contrast major ideas, outline the chapter in terms of each heading and the key terms listed underneath, when reading the text, know information related to each bolded term. The media effects model: methods, surveys, experiments. Approaches to media study: media formalism, medium theory, media effects, cultural studies. Theories of mass media: cultivation theory, what you see on tv is what you begin to believe to be true about the world, examples:
