[TCOM 101] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (28 pages long)

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Telecommunications
• Course: TCOM 101
• Professor: Mike Gerhard

Document Summary

Knowing about the media can help practitioners set their own personal values to help mold the industry. Individuals owe it to themselves to understand the messages and communication tools of our society. Knowledge of communications and its related areas can help us understand how individual lives and society are influenced and affected. Ramifications of power that electronic media exert over society. Television experimentation came to a halt around ww2. As well as new radio frequency fm which became more popular than am. Retransmit local tv signals by wire to other areas. Encouraged companies to get involved with each other. Video and audio could both be streamed now. Distributing media content to a variety of venues through distributing platforms. Surveillance: bias and misinformation, fake news, celeb news, sensationalism. Entertainment: low-blow content, passivity, sex violence and language, amusing ourselves. Enrichment: passivity, violence and drug use, lack of originality. Watchdog: undercover reporting, partisanship, sensationalism, conflicts of interest.