Exam 4: Media and Politics in the Changing Media Landscape

Mobile app users stay on news sites for long periods of time, but many more people reach news sites via mobile browsers.

Media hybridity refers to the fact that in the contemporary media environment, you can use dual screen.

Concerns over "Slacktivism" deal with ______.

What is partisan perceptual bias?

Is there a relationship between today's fragmented media environment and political polarization? Explain the argument about why fragmented media could promote polarization. Assess the state of the empirical evidence on this subject.

Briefly, describe some of the various ways that campaign websites have developed over time?

List the distinctive patterns of emergent campaign practices that have been facilitated by digital and social media.

The use of mobile devices for news consumption has grown considerably since 2013.

How has the current media landscape facilitated the emergence of citizen journalism?

What is "astroturfing"?

Most people pay at least some attention to politicians' communications on social media.

______ is the term that describes a behavior that leads to opinion "echo chambers."

How are blogs different from news? How do these differences influence the relative credibility and perceived credibility of information encountered in blogs and online news? Is this important? Why?

What is like-minded information? What is counter-attitudinal information? Why are they relevant to consider in the current media environment?

Has the modern media environment lived up to expectations for a digital democracy? Why or why not?

Discuss the various ways that changes to the modern media landscape have also dramatically altered the practice and profession of journalism.

Advertising spending for online news revenue has held steady over the last few years but ad revenue for mobile is increasing drastically.

Though early projections suggested the Internet would positively affect overall levels of political knowledge, we have seen a different and more nuanced effect. Explain.

What is (are) major concerns from the expansion of media choice?

Studies show there is no ideological diversity in people's Facebook networks.