Mass Media Terms

1. Globalisation has opened up national markets allowing companies to produce and distribute worldwide. This has created internal competition between media companies (3)
3. Over simplified, ill-informed generalisations of particular social groups who the media (and powerful people) wish to demonise (4, 5)
4. The interconnectedness of societies (13)
8. Ideas and values pumped through the media, from the ruling class (6, 5, 8)

2. Often groups achievements are presented as less important and are never celebrated/included and are trivialised (8, 12)
5. When the media use a group of people to divert attention from the main issue i.e. exploitation (9)
6. The idea that a view or idea is effected by the time, period and situation that it is in (6, 12)
7. A wave of public concern about an exaggerated or imaginary threat to society, often created by media reporting (5, 5)
9. Gender roles and perceptions are being shaken up (11)
10. Someone/a group of people who decided what is going to appear in the mass media and what is not (10)

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