CMN 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Experiment, Extreme Makeover, The Spinoff
31 Jan 2017
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Key ideas: the media spin reality to make it appear more exciting and thus attract people away from their real lives plays into our need for excitement. Line between real world and media world is increasingly blurry degree of real: memories are interlaced, attaining higher media literacy means being able to distinguish between the two. Accuracy vs. probability that the event may occur in real life: misperceptions of reality, as we age we don"t automatically learn how to differentiate between reality and fantasy, believing that we do is fantasy, differences across individuals. Individual judgements: recognize continuum of fantasy to reality, charlie brooks on reality tv. Next step reality: organizing principle, audience exposure decisions guided by desire for it. Audience perspective: find messages they cannot get in real life. Impossible to get messages in real life: high cost to get messages in real life, two characteristics, messages appear real, present a little more than everyday reality; one-step removed.
