What did the Peoples Choice Study find out about how voters make decisions quizlet?

Audience members seek out and respond to media for a variety of reasons

They divide audience members based on geographics (Where people live), demographics (Gender, race, ethnic background, income ,education, age, educational attainment), and psychographics (A combination of demographics, lifestyle characteristics, and product usage)

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Herbert Gans, in his study "Deciding What's News," found that the media was profoundly biased in favor of big business and the evidence of this could be found in most news stories.

False

Julian Assange is the founder of WikiLeaks, an organization committed to releasing secret government documents on the Internet.

True

Canadian economist Harold Innis argues that any given medium has a bias of lasting a long time or of being easy to distribute

True

Cable news channels are as likely to report about crime affecting poor African-American women and girls as they are about crime affecting wealthy white women and girls.

False

Prior to the nineteenth century, most people in Europe and North America lived in homogeneous communities.

True

The direct effects model of media effects presumes that messages have a direct and predictable effect on audience members exposed to the message.

True

The indirect effects model recognizes that people will react differently to media messages because they have different backgrounds, needs, attitudes, and values.

True

Current research supports the fears media critics had in the World War I era of powerful, direct effects of the mass media.

false

The "People's Choice" study found that voters use information from the media instead of information from family members to make up their minds during elections.

False

The critical/cultural approach to mass communication research looks at how meaning is created in society.

True

Research explaining why the disappearances of wealthy white women generates more news stories than the disappearances of poor women of color would be within the direct effects model.

False

People who need to talk about the news at work are no more likely to learn from the media than are people who watch the news to be entertained.

False

The channel used to transmit a message can change the meaning of the message.

True

Media theorist Marshall McLuhan argued for "medium neutrality," that the medium used to communicate did not change how a message is received.

False

National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden had to smuggle all of the secret documents he stole out of the office in a series of boxes filled with paper files.

False

Joshua Meyrowitz argues that a major effect of transmitting news through print is segregating audiences by education, age, class, and gender.

True

Psychographics means using psychics to predict which candidates will be elected.

False

Journalists tend to be somewhat more liberal politically than the public at large.

True

Fox News, on an average evening, attracts a larger audience than CNN and MSNBC combined.

True

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What was the main finding of the People's Choice study?

“The People's Choice” showed that, in the case studied, personal contacts were more important than other factors in the election decision. Personal relationships were more influential than the media - at that time, synonymous with radio and newspapers - in forming opinion.

Which of the following best describes the findings of the Peoples Choice Study from 1940 quizlet?

Which of the following best describes the findings of the People's Choice study from 1940? Audiences receive strong, direct effects from media campaign messages.

Which theory states that public discourse is set by the media group of answer choices?

Agenda-Setting Theory Under this theory, the issues that receive the most attention from media become the issues that the public discusses, debates, and demands action on. This means that the media is determining what issues and stories the public thinks about.

Which type of effect involves changes in feelings about a product and individual or an idea as a result of the media?

Cognitive effects are changes in an audience's attitudes, beliefs, and values, including changes brought about by the media in its role in political “agenda setting.” Affective effects include, for example, the development of feelings of fear and anxiety about living in certain neighbourhoods as a result of ...