COMM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Groupthink, Decision-Making, Buzzfeed
13 Apr 2016
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Farm selects crops supermarket person buys food home fridge dinner table. Each step gets some food left out/filtered out. David white (1950) conducts case study of wire editor mr. Recorded all news over 1 week period. Most news rejected 11,910 stories receives, 1297 used (10. 8%) Key study: why, limited physical and mental space. Societal: ex: information flows from people in organization 1 (political parties) to people in organization 2 some information makes it to the audience. Organization: ex: person within the organization passes story to his editor (has pressure against him) and it gets filtered through until it reaches audience. Individual: ex: journalist has a lot of information coming in, little information comes out, external and internal pressure. Decides info to pass through based on. Because decisions aren"t objective (and even bias) has important implications for agenda setting. Certain stories get more or less coverage. Gatekeeping culture: nerd , fake gamer girls .
