Purdue Com 102 Exam 4 2023 with 100% correct answers

What is the "agenda-setting hypothesis"? - correct answer When the mass media has the ability to transfer the salience of issues on their news agenda to the public agenda Be familiar with the communitarian ethics of Cliff Christian - correct answer he likes free speech but not the whole first amendment, he believes in communitarian ethics which means its one's moral responsibility to promote community, mutuality, and persons-in-relation who live simultaneously for others and for themselves, believes in gape love-unconditional love for others because they're created in the image of God. Understand Griffin's discussion of the "behavioral effect of the media's agenda" - correct answer Some findings suggest that media priorities affect people's behavior. Nowhere is the behavioral effect of the media agenda more apparent than in the business of professional sports. When the flu was an important topic on the news, more people would go get their flu shot. The media is affecting the public's behaviors. NBA stuff. Know the details (what did they do and what did they find?) of the experiment reported by Althaus and Tewksbury - correct answer -they predicted that traditional print media would be more effective than new electronic media in setting a reader's agenda -they recruited students to spend 30-60 minutes a day/ 5 days a week reading print or online versions of NY times -students were tested on recognition and recall of the stories asked which problems the country was facing that were most important -found traditional newspaper remembered more and higher percentage of international issues important Know the size of the correlations reported in lecture on the "First Test" of agenda-setting - correct answer Correlation between the major items emphasized by the media's agenda and public opinion=.967 Correlation between minor items being emphasized and public opinion=.979