Study Terms

Media, Ethics & Society/Media History 

• The First Amendment
• Penny Press
• Frederick Douglass
• Yellow Journalism
• Muckraking
• Edward Bernays
• The Hutchins Commission
• Edward R. Murrow and McCarthyism
• Henry R. Luce
• The Kennedy-Nixon debates
• Pentagon Papers
• Federal Communications Commission
• Federal Trade Commission
• Public broadcasting
• Growth of cable television
• Growth of satellite radio
• Convergence in media/ownership
• Third-party strategy
• Golden Mean
• Utilitarianism
• Categorical imperative
• TARES Test
• Potter Box
• Competing ethical claims
• Loyalty
• Privacy
• Circles of intimacy
• Social Responsibility Theory
• Eyewash
• Photo manipulation
• Modern coverage of war/terrorism
• Political communication
• The Internet and reporting
• Ethics of care
• Media literacy skills
• News staging
• Video news releases
• Agenda setting
• Hypercommercialism

Communication Theory

•  Accessibility principle
• Active strategy
• Agenda-Setting hypothesis
• Albert Bandura
• Anne Norton and Douglas Kellner
• Anticipated Future Interactions
• Anxiety
• Arousal, relational
• Asynchronous channel
• Attribution theory
• AUM Theory
• Axiom
• Barnett Pearce
• Behavioral scientist
• Bernard Cohen
• Biased elaboration
• Boundary
• Categorical Imperative
• Central Route
• Charles Berger
• Charles Peirce
• Chronemics
• CMC
• Cognitive Complexity
• Cognitive Dissonance
• Communication
• Communicator Reward Valence
• Communitarian Ethics
• Compliance
• Connotative sign system
• Construct
• Coordination
• Cosmopolitan Communicators
• Counterattitudinal advocacy
• Cues Filtered Out
• Cultivation analysis
• Cultivation differential
• Dan Canary and Laura Stafford
• Deconstruction
• Denotative sign system
• Determinism
• Dialogic communication
• Dick Hebdige
• Differentiation
• Dolf Zillmann
• Dramatic Violence
• Edward Hall
• Effective communication
• Elliot Aronson
• Emancipation
• Emile Durkheim
• Empirical evidence
• Episode
• Epistemology
• Erie County Study
• Excitation Transfer Theory
• Expectancy
• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Framing
• Frederic Jameson
• Fritz Heider
• George Gerbner
• Gerald Kosicki
• Groupthink
• Heavy viewers
• Hedging
• Hierarchy Hypothesis
• Hierarchy of meaning
• Humanistic scholarship
• Hyperpersonal perspective
• Hyperreality
• Hypothesis
• Hypothetico-deductive method
• Identification
• Ideology
• Immanual Kant
• Impression formation
• Index of Curiosity
• Institutional process analysis
• Interaction Position
• Interactional Adaptation Theory
• Interactive strategy
• Interest aggregations
• Interpretive approach
• Intimate Distance
• Irving Janis
• James Dillard
• James Tankard
• Jean Baudrillard
• Jean-Francois Lyotard
• Jesse Delia
• Joe Walther
• Judee Burgoon
• Karl Marx
• Leon Festinger
• linguistic turn
• Logical force
• Mainstreaming
• Marian
• Marshall McLuhan
• Martin Buber
• Martin Lea and Russell Spears
• Max Weber
• Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw
• Media agenda
• Media Richness Theory
• Message elaboration
• Message plans
• Message Production
• Message system analysis
• Meta-Analysis
• Metatheory
• Michel Foucault
• Mindfulness
• Minimal Justification Hypothesis
• Myth
• Need for cognition
• Objective approach
• Objective Elaboration
• Passive strategy
• Paul Lazarsfeld
• Paul Mongeau
• Paul Mongeau and James Stiff
• Peripheral Route
• Person-Centered Messages
• Personal Distance
• Personal Space
• Plan complexity
• Postdecision Dissonance
• Postmodernism
• Predicted outcome value
• Procedural record
• Proxemics
• Public agenda
• Public Distance
• Ray Funkhouser
• Reciprocity
• Reflectivity
• Relationship function
• Resonance
• Rhetorician
• Richard Petty and John Cacioppo
• Robert Bales
• Robert Cialdini
• Robert Merton
• Roland Barthes
• Role Category Questionnaire
• Selective Exposure
• Selective Exposure
• Selective self-presentation
• Self-fulfilling Prophecy
• Self-perception theory
• Semiotics (Semiology)
• Shanto Iyengar and Donald Kinder
• Sign
• Signified
• Signifier
• Similar Skills Model
• Social constructionists
• Social Distance
• Social identity-deindividution
• Social Learning Theory
• Social Presence Theory
• Socio-emotional communication
• Sophisticated communication
• Source credibility
• Speaker credibility
• Speech act
• Stanley Deetz
• Strange loop
• Strong Arguments
• Task function
• Text
• The Mean World Syndrome
• Theodore White
• Theorem
• Theory (informal definition)
• Theory (formal definition)
• Threat Threshold
• Triadic model
• Two-Step Flow of Communication
• Uncertainty Reduction
• Violation Valence
• Walter Crockett
• Walter Lippman
• Warranting value
• When Prophecy Fails
• William Gudykunst 

MEDIA LAW

Cases:

• Brandenburg v. Ohio
• Woley v. Maynard
• U.S. v. The Progressive
• Nichols v. Moore
• New York Times v. Sullivan
• Gertz v. Welch
• Brock v. Viacom International, Inc.
• Time Inc. v. Hill
• Solano v. Playgirl, Inc.
• Neff v. Time, Inc.
• Zacchini v. Scripps Howard, Inc.
• National Archives v. Favish
• Doe v. Reed
• Sheppard v. Maxwell
• Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart
• Press-Enterprise v. Superior Court
• Presley v. Georgia
• Branzburg v. Hayes
• Zurcher v. Stanford Daily
• Cowen v. Cowles
• Eldred v. Ashcroft
• Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music
• ProtectMarriage.com v. Courage Campaign
• Central Hudson Gas and Electric v. Public Service Commission of New York
• Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
• Miller v. California
• Stanley v. Georgia
• Osborne v. Ohio
• FCC v. Pacifica
• Fox Television v. FCC
• Turner Broadcasting v. FCC
• MGM Studios v. Grokster

Tests:

• Time, Place and Manner Restrictions
• Seditious/Hate Speech"
•  Libel
•  Public Figures
•  Appropriation
•  Intrusion
• Private Facts
•  False Light
•  Rules for Ride alongs
•  Newsroom Searches
• Nebraska Test
•  Press-Enterprise Test
•  Test for Obscenity
•  Test for Zoning Adult Businesses
•  Test for Copyright Infringement
•  Test for Fair Use of Copyrighted Material
•  Commercial Speech
•  False Advertising
•  Rules for selling advertising to political candidates