information, ideas, or rumours deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
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hypodermic syringe approach
an early approach to studying the effects of the mass media on their audiences, the idea being that the audience receives daily injections of messages from newspapers and television; these messages work like a drug and have a direct and powerful effe
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uses and gratifications approach
a way of analysing the effects of the mass media by looking at how members of the audience use the media and what individual needs are gratified, or met, by them
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decoding approach
a way of exploring the relationship between the mass media and the audience that sees audience members as ‘decoders’ of media content – they decode or interpret a message from a TV programme in the same way that a spy decodes a message from their con
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censorship
suppressing or banning speech or removing communicative material that may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organisations as determined by a censor
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Card 2
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an early approach to studying the effects of the mass media on their audiences, the idea being that the audience receives daily injections of messages from newspapers and television; these messages work like a drug and have a direct and powerful effe
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hypodermic syringe approach
Card 3
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a way of analysing the effects of the mass media by looking at how members of the audience use the media and what individual needs are gratified, or met, by them
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Card 4
Front
a way of exploring the relationship between the mass media and the audience that sees audience members as ‘decoders’ of media content – they decode or interpret a message from a TV programme in the same way that a spy decodes a message from their con
Back
Card 5
Front
suppressing or banning speech or removing communicative material that may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organisations as determined by a censor
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