Key Words
Media: media consists of newspapers, billboards, radio, music videos etc
Mass Media: Is a communication ( newspapers, internet, billboards etc) in which reaches a large amount of people.
Mediate: Mediated means a re-presentation of something, ie big brother, match of the day, it shows important clips that would entertain the audience rather than showing everything.
Moden Media: The most morden type of media ie social networking sites.
Niche Media: A small audience in which media communicates with.
Non Diagetic: Sounds/Music that is entered during editing.
Diagetic: Sounds/Music that comes from the life of the scene.
KEY MEDIA TERMS
ReplyDeleteThe phrase “the media” refers collectively to the main means of mass communication (television, newspapers, radio).
The phase “the mass media” refers to forms of media that communicate news and information to large numbers of people (e.g. television, newspapers, radio etc.)
Media studies is an academic discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. The media is a growing, increasingly wide-ranging field. Consequently, the parameters of the field of study in the discipline are always expanding: journalism, public relations, advertising, communication studies, information management, broadcasting, TV and film are some of the many subjects that it includes.
A study of modern culture and modern media refers to the study of contemporary theories of representation and cultural production and creative practice in a range of media.
The phrase “new media” refers to products and services that provide information or entertainment using new technologies such as the Internet and not by traditional methods such as television and newspapers.
The media do not present reality; they re-present it. When we listen to a news programme on the radio, watch a documentary on television or read an article on a celebrity in a magazine or newspaper, we are not granted a window on the world as it is in reality, we are offered a “mediated” version of that reality. All forms of media “mediate”: they offer us a constructed re-presentation of reality.