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Chapter 7 vocab
AP Gov
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| high-tech politics | A politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology. |
| mass media | Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and other means of popular communication. |
| media event | Events that are purposely staged for the media and that are significant just because the media are there. |
| press conferences | Meetings of public officials with reporters. |
| investigative journalism | The use of in-depth reporting to unearth scandals, scams, and schemes, at times putting reporters in adversarial relationships with political leaders. |
| print media | Newspapers and magazines, as com- pared with electronic media. |
| electronic media | Television, radio, and the Internet, as compared with print media. |
| narrowcasting | Media programming on cable TV (e.g., on MTV, ESPN, or C-SPAN) or the Internet that is focused on a particular interest and aimed at a particular audience, in contrast to broadcasting. |
| selective exposure | The process through which people consciously choose to get the news from information sources that have viewpoints compatible with their own. |
| chains | Groups of newspapers published by media conglomerates and today accounting for over four-fifths of the nation’s daily newspaper circulation. |
| beats | Specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as Congress or the White House. Most top reporters work a particular beat, thereby becoming specialists in what goes on at that location. |
| trial balloons | Intentional news leaks for the purpose of assessing the political reaction. |
| sound bites | Short video clips of approximately 10 seconds. Typically, they are all that is shown from a politician’s speech on the nightly television news. |
| talking head | A shot of a person’s face talking directly to the camera. Because such shots are visually unstimulating, the major networks rarely show politicians talking for very long. |
| policy agenda | The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time. |
| policy entrepreneurs | People who invest their political “ capital” in an issue. According to John Kingdon, a policy entrepreneur “could be in or out of government, in elected or appointed positions, in interest groups or research organizations.” |
| high-tech politics | A politics in which the behavior of citizens and policymakers and the political agenda itself are increasingly shaped by technology. |
| mass media | Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and other means of popular communication. |
| media event | Events that are purposely staged for the media and that are significant just because the media are there. |
| press conferences | Meetings of public officials with reporters. |
| investigative journalism | The use of in-depth reporting to unearth scandals, scams, and schemes, at times putting reporters in adversarial relationships with political leaders. |
| print media | Newspapers and magazines, as com- pared with electronic media. |
| electronic media | Television, radio, and the Internet, as compared with print media. |
| narrowcasting | Media programming on cable TV (e.g., on MTV, ESPN, or C-SPAN) or the Internet that is focused on a particular interest and aimed at a particular audience, in contrast to broadcasting. |
| selective exposure | The process through which people consciously choose to get the news from information sources that have viewpoints compatible with their own. |
| chains | Groups of newspapers published by media conglomerates and today accounting for over four-fifths of the nation’s daily newspaper circulation. |
| beats | Specific locations from which news frequently emanates, such as Congress or the White House. Most top reporters work a particular beat, thereby becoming specialists in what goes on at that location. |
| trial balloons | Intentional news leaks for the purpose of assessing the political reaction. |
| sound bites | Short video clips of approximately 10 seconds. Typically, they are all that is shown from a politician’s speech on the nightly television news. |
| talking head | A shot of a person’s face talking directly to the camera. Because such shots are visually unstimulating, the major networks rarely show politicians talking for very long. |
| policy agenda | The issues that attract the serious attention of public officials and other people actively involved in politics at the time. |
| policy entrepreneurs | People who invest their political “ capital” in an issue. According to John Kingdon, a policy entrepreneur “could be in or out of government, in elected or appointed positions, in interest groups or research organizations.” |
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