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Media Vocab

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In record retailing - albums more than 3 years old.






2. Ads in Magazines and Newspapers that interest take on the appearance of editorial content.






3. Recording of one artists music by another.






4. Relaxation of ownership and other rules for radio and television.






5. Audience for specific media content becoming smaller and increasingly homogeneous.






6. Creating space for creative artists.






7. Online magazine.






8. Recreation on television news of some event that is believed to have happened of which could have happened.






9. Identifying and granting ownership of a given piece of expression to protect the creators interest.






10. The delivery of radio over the internet directly to individual listeners.






11. Outmoded name for early cable television.






12. Film making characterized by reduced risk taking and more formulaic movies; business concerns are said to dominate artistic considerations.






13. Music custom selected by a disc jockey.






14. Weekly free pages with local events.






15. Recording based on conversion of sound onto 1's and 0's logged into milliseconds.






16. A culture in which personal worth and identity reside not in the people themselves but in the products with which they surround themselves.






17. 1962 Law Requiring all TV sets import to manufacture in the U.S.






18. Percentage of a markers total population that is reached by a piece of broadcast programming.






19. Movies produced primarily for initial exhibition on theater screens.






20. The number of issues of a magazine or newspaper that are sold.






21. Process of creating shared meaning between the mass and audience.






22. A broadcasting station that aligns itself with a network.






23. File compression software that permits streaming of digital audio and video data.






24. Involves the sale of a program that was originally run on network television: a rerun.






25. Tying two seperate but related shots in such a way that take new meaning.






26. Movies that can be described in one line.






27. Freely downloaded software.






28. Free - alternative weeklies with a local and partical orientation.






29. 1 second commercials between songs on the radio.






30. A consumer magazine published by a retail business for readers with similar interests.






31. Papers - often in a foreign language - aimed at minority; Immigrant and non-english.






32. The simultaneous downloading and accessing of digital audio or video data.






33. Early weekly British Publication that carried ads.






34. The means of delivering a specific media content.






35. A style of media with a distinctive style.






36. Measuring the effectiveness of advertising messages by showing them to consumers.






37. Software that gets direct downloads by passing servers.






38. Advertisers appeal to audiences composed of varyinig personal and social characteristics such as race - gender and economic level.






39. Online messages akin to billboards.






40. Societies maintained through this - unites us - defines our realities and shapes the way we think - feel and act.






41. Attractive - artful business cards use by early British people to promote themselves.






42. A telecommunication company required to carry messages.






43. How many people listening every 15 minutes.






44. Media's content and grammar. Style and ability.






45. Aiming broadcasting at a smaller audience.






46. The ability to comprehand mass communication.






47. Special television ratings times in Feb. - Mar. - May - July and November in which diaries are distributed to thousands of sample households to selected markets.






48. A medium that carries messages to other people.






49. Advertising that the consumer actively accepts.






50. The erosions of traditional distinctive style elements.