JOMC 486 EXAM 1 PRACTICE STUDY GUIDE
TESTED QUESTIONS
●● Secrecy
Answer: Intentionally keeping information from public view.
●● Discretion
Answer: The ability to judge what is intrusive or harmful to reveal.
●● Right to know
Answer: A legal right to access some public information.
●● Need to know
Answer: Information people need to function in society.
●● Want to know
Answer: Information people are curious about but do not truly need.
●● Circles of intimacy
Answer: Different levels of personal life that people control access to.
●● Surveillance capitalism
,Answer: The collection and sale of personal data to predict behavior.
●● Veil of ignorance
Answer: Rawls's fairness test where no one knows their own status.
●● Social justice
Answer: A philosophy connecting personal actions to social
consequences.
●● Communitarianism
Answer: An approach that emphasizes community and social outcomes.
●● Fault lines
Answer: Categories of difference used to examine fairness in journalism.
●● Hyper-competition
Answer: A market where supply exceeds demand.
●● Stakeholder theory
Answer: The idea that media should serve the broader public, not just
shareholders.
●● Media consolidation
, Answer: Ownership of many media outlets by a few large corporations.
●● News deserts
Answer: Communities with little or no local news coverage.
●● Loyalty
Answer: Devotion to a cause, role, or principle.
●● Conflicts of interest
Answer: Problems caused by competing loyalties.
●● Royce
Answer: Philosopher who argued that morality centers on loyalty.
●● Potter Box
Answer: A four-step ethical decision-making model using facts, values,
principles, and loyalties.
●● Privacy
Answer: The ethical and philosophical right to control information about
yourself and the context in which that information is understood.
●● Surveillance capitalism
TESTED QUESTIONS
●● Secrecy
Answer: Intentionally keeping information from public view.
●● Discretion
Answer: The ability to judge what is intrusive or harmful to reveal.
●● Right to know
Answer: A legal right to access some public information.
●● Need to know
Answer: Information people need to function in society.
●● Want to know
Answer: Information people are curious about but do not truly need.
●● Circles of intimacy
Answer: Different levels of personal life that people control access to.
●● Surveillance capitalism
,Answer: The collection and sale of personal data to predict behavior.
●● Veil of ignorance
Answer: Rawls's fairness test where no one knows their own status.
●● Social justice
Answer: A philosophy connecting personal actions to social
consequences.
●● Communitarianism
Answer: An approach that emphasizes community and social outcomes.
●● Fault lines
Answer: Categories of difference used to examine fairness in journalism.
●● Hyper-competition
Answer: A market where supply exceeds demand.
●● Stakeholder theory
Answer: The idea that media should serve the broader public, not just
shareholders.
●● Media consolidation
, Answer: Ownership of many media outlets by a few large corporations.
●● News deserts
Answer: Communities with little or no local news coverage.
●● Loyalty
Answer: Devotion to a cause, role, or principle.
●● Conflicts of interest
Answer: Problems caused by competing loyalties.
●● Royce
Answer: Philosopher who argued that morality centers on loyalty.
●● Potter Box
Answer: A four-step ethical decision-making model using facts, values,
principles, and loyalties.
●● Privacy
Answer: The ethical and philosophical right to control information about
yourself and the context in which that information is understood.
●● Surveillance capitalism
