quiz 2

• kids don't think about stories this way and don't tell stories this way

• natural retellings

  • often a group process

  • affected by out interpersonal relationships

  • focus on the good bits

• they have trouble understanding the overarching themes
  
• they do not have as developed schema

1. limit "multitasking"
2. be the master of your interruptions
3. focus and take brain enhancing breaks

• as the infusion of mass media information into a social system increase,”: segments of the population with higher SES tend to acquire this information at a faster rate than lower status segments: so that the gap in knowledge between them tends to increase rather than decrease  

• selective recall
  
• selective categorization
• different standards

partisans pay attention to unfavorable content and use more elaborate thinking when information is contrary to their own

partisans see aspects of story as contrary to their own position

partisans judge content as biased

• the difference in the percent giving the tv answer within comparable groups of light and heavy viewers  

• people who would otherwise be different (different backgrounds and different experiences) are made more similar with heavy viewing

• view of real world becomes becomes more similar and more distorted in the direction of tv
  

• developed explanation based on availability heuristic: faster can think of an example, the higher your estimate of frequency
  

those problems that receive prominent attention on the national news become the problems the viewing public regards as the nation's most important

•   less politically engaged are more strongly influenced in judgments about what is important

• more politically engaged have stronger prior opinions that are harder to move

•   when exposure is voluntary (as in surveys), less politically engaged are less likely to watch hence less likely to be notice changes in news agenda, hence less likely to be affected; more engaged means more likely to notice news agenda and be affected overall

• To frame is to select some aspects of a perceived reality and make them more salient in a communicating text, in such a way as to promote a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation for the item described

involves characteristics of objects or people that are accentuated or ignored in news coverage - ex: people have perception of poor based on fact that poor in the media not represented by children, elderly, and white, etc.

Episodic information describes poverty in terms of personal experience, like people or families living under economic distress.

Thematic information is abstract and impersonal, such as discussion of general trends or matters of public policy

• Strategy frame → higher levels of cynicism
• Issue frame → higher levels of knowledge and understanding