Giving a representational slant and a preferred meaning to a news item.

The 'black box' of algorithms refers to...

The lack of transparency around how algorithms work.

Dallas Smyth theorised that....

Audiences are sold to advertisers

Not telling us what to think, but what to think about.

'Dataism' is a term used to describe...

An over-reliance on data as objective/truthful

The attention economy defines...

How users' attention is limited and competitively sought by media companies, How networker attention is part of making a profit from user data

High level affordances are:

More abstract, for thinking about general dynamics and conditions of media

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Framing theory is:
About shaping public perception of the electoral issues in a campaign
The subjective interpretation of an individual journalist
Telling you what news topics are most important at the present time.
Giving a representational slant and a preferred meaning to a news item.
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The 'black box' of algorithms refers to...
The lack of transparency around how algorithms work.
The possibility for people to hack algorithms
How algorithms sort information so that some information is not availalable
The moment when an algorithm fails to do its adjudicated task.
3
Dallas Smyth theorised that....
The medium is the message
Prosumers use media to create business ventures
Audiences have oppositional, negotiated, and dominant readings
Audiences are sold to advertisers
4
Affordances was a conceptual concept that emerged....
From Human Computer Interaction
From gaming design
From ecological psychology
In the creation of gambling
5
Agenda setting is:
The ways that algorithms effect trending news
Not telling us what to think, but what to think about.
Telling us what to think about a particular issue.
The ways news media cater to political agendas
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In relation to our four media studies approaches, framing theory is closest to:
audience studies
textual analysis
medium theory
political economy of the media
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'Dataism' is a term used to describe...
The ways our data is mined for company profit
The process of sorting/categorizing data
The belief that data is ideologically loaded and biased
An over-reliance on data as objective/truthful
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The attention economy defines...
How users' attention is limited and competitively sought by media companies
The ways hyper attentive behaviour works
How networker attention is part of making a profit from user data
How social behaviour online is all about getting attention from peers
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High level affordances are:
Specific features of design, such as buttons, links, icons etc.
Design features that are too high up to reach
More abstract, for thinking about general dynamics and conditions of media
Affordances only available to the elite (i.e. media owners).

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