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how do the media affect people
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Across: 2. theories that stress that the effects of the media are limited because people are not easily influenced 3. the view that people use the media for their own purposes 5. an interactive example of modern media. The World Wide Web 7. a drama by HG Wells that was a bit too realistic 8. the idea that people remember only parts of what they see and hear on the media 9. short for advertising standards authority 11. Aural, visual, oral and written output in magazines, television film or radio 12. the idea that people choose which media to watch, listen or read 14. the use of language to communicate a preference for one side or the other in news reporting 15. an interpretation of a media text that rejects its preferred or intended reading 17. an interpretation of a media text that is modified to fit with the audience members own views 19. the view that at audiences only allow certain messages through 20. research done, for example, by the Glasgow University media group that focuses on the way individuals make meanings from media messages 21. theoretical standpoint based on class analysis 22. The intended message contained within the text
Down: 1. a model which suggest that people interpret media texts according to their various class, gender or ethnic identities 4. control of what we see and hear by regulatory bodies 6. concerns over accuracy and what is right and wrong 10. a model which suggests that a weak audience is easily influenced by a strong media who can inject their views into an uncritical audience 13. a political or social group who believe in organic changeand traditional values 16. people may use this selectively to take notice of only certain media messages 18. theorists concerned with gender differences
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