journalism final

target marketing

the who in who do you want to reach
-loyal devotees of your product
-people who have tried your product once, but arent regulars
-people who have heard of, but never tried your product

process of market segmentation

fragmenting audiences into pieces that have something in common

steps of market segmentation

1) demographics
2)geographics
3)psychographics
4)behaviors

psychographics

-psychological profile of people
-what do they value
-what are their attitudes towards things
-how do they see themselves
-lifestyle

valz and prizm

values and life sytles
-competing systems, diving people based on demographics
-tools for drawing insights out of demogrpahics
-development of consumer profiles

what does prizm tell us

where your target market is and what their habits are

what does vals tell us

how do consumers relate to the world, how are they likely to relate to a product

how do we process the data?

-algorithims
-natural language processing
-machine learning
-automated messages

data aggregation and profiling

pooling info about consumers from different sources

why is big data so valuable to business

- extremely efficient
-send ads when consumption habits are forming

new strategy for social media

-audiences now dont have to leave social media at all
-rise of multisided markets

facebook is a four sided market place because

users, advertisers, third party applications, developers and users of facebook connect

where do media fit in?

5th side: premium content provider
- have to play the game of social media
-lowering switching costs for advertisers

platforms commoditize

- make it easier for the best to rise to the top
-winner take all economy
-application of power laws to content
-platforms force specliization

power laws?

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data is

reinventing how political campaigns operate through
-data merging
-culture of testing
-nanotargets

nano-targeting

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data merging

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culture of testing

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news value

play highest quantity and quality of news
-reporters success depends on amount of play

six news values

- impact
-timeliness
-proximity
-prominence
-novelty-unique
-conflict-controversy

what if crisis happens?

-first 24 hours are critical, if consumers perceive that there is a problem then there is
-focus on facts
-have one spokesperson
-show concern for all potential involved politics

dealing with media

-acknowledge problem exists
-be honest
-communicate regularly

what are the problems of democracy?

-most are not experts,
-many are not educated
-they work and dont have time to study issues
-may not care/ see depth of issues

problems with founders

same problem 225 years ago.. does democracy ask too much of citizens

hybrid model of citizenship

accomodated a hybrid/ conflicted view of citizenship

solutions to democracy challenges

- education- teach the fundamental rules of philosophy of democracy/ issues/
-the press: essential to informing citizens about world around them

what must press do

inform
-protection from deception
-enable aggregation and filtering of interests

aggregating interests

- many driven unknown interests
-which are most important
-public sphere

what does politics have to do with journalism

art of who gets what when and how
write stories about who what when whom
indexin

alarm model

journalists move from crisis to crisis

patrol beat system

city hall area

alarm patrol hybrid

alarm could generate patrol

structure of politics influence

journalists

social networks and news distribution

diffusion of innovations
current news trends
social networks

what are attributes of social network

-size- shapes flow of information
-density
-low density- one tie
-heterogenity

online social network

have uniquely identifiable profiles that consist of user-supplied content, content provided by others and system provided data
-range of news is broad
-sports most prevalent on twitter

engagement goes beyond exposure

facebook users more likely to post political content on site than twitter

online opinion versus general opinion

-online sentiment changes daily

defining criteria of journalism over the years

-timely
-socially important
-public
-typical skills
-periodic- do more than one story and regularly
-professionalism-recognized social practice and employer

empirical definition of journalism

journalism is a social practice where acts of public communication disseminate timely information and commentary about contemporary affairs

features of empirical definition of journalism

- neutral to forms of journalism
-neutral to regularity (levels)
-neutral to professionalism

media harm

- physical harm
-financial
-harm to reputation
-psychological harm
-social harm

what is journalism ethics

responsible use of journalisms freedom to publish study/ application of norms to practice
-to ensure journalism

traditional journalism (1900s)

- truth
-independence as "distance" between you and the people you report on
-objectivity: neutrality
- minimize harm where possible
-accountability and later transparency

ethics framework

-aims
-principles
-judgement about situations

ethics as weighing

truth telling versus minimizing harm
-telling truth about war versus pain to familiesi

online ventures

huffington post (aggregation site)
buzzfeed
gawker
politico

local experiment examples

-voice of san diego (running on donations)
-wisconsin watch

rise of infotainment

-coverage of government is going down
-durming down or expanding news coverage to everyday life?
goes beyond news: docudramas
commercial competition
news from cognitive reaction to emotional reactions

elaboration likelihood model

Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route, which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change, and the peripheral route, which focuses on less careful, more emotional, and even superficial evaluatio

when do you use central route of likelihood model?

when motivation and capacity are high

when do you use peripheral route of likelihood model?

less careful more emotional and superficial evaluation

what is media ecology?

symbiotic relationships that work and compete together to form a mediated ecosystem
- one persons interactions affect the entire ecology

traditional media ecology

pseudo-professional: newsletter, letters to the editor
sender-receiver

components of ecology

ideology and identity constructs
trust
privelege
authors, sources, audiences, connections and positions

how is media ecology being reconstructed today?

-interactivity

journalism as a process

moving away from thinking, journalism and news production as finite products

boundary work

maintenence, challenge loosely established borders
-opportunities from change, subversion, reification

outcomes

-defensiveness
-"repair work"- anytime, anyone criticizes a challenger in order to undermine their positions their position and rectify theseis
-expansion of borders
-new voices/ perspectives
-authority shared, lost or gained

idiographic

case, unique, feature, laws

nomothetic orientation

generalizable, patterns, laws, class and groups

focus group

detail-high
representative-L

survey

-randomly selected
detail-low
-representativeness-high

ethnography

the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures
-how people engage in actual social setting
-detail-high
-representativeness-depends

market communication

umbrella term refers to al lforms of communication about a bran that appear in a vartiety of media

integrated marketing

practice that focuses on the consistency of brand communication in order to more efficiently establish a coherent brand perceptipn

what is the difference between balance and fairness?

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media malaise

A feeling among public of cynicism and distrust, even despair, toward government and its officials that some people believe is fostered by negative stories about government reported newspapers and television.

vampire creativity

when the message is so creative that the ad is remembered but not the product

challenging environment for creative effective advertising

expanding media
fragmented audiences
more complicated media planning
technologies of avoidance
audience resistance to advertising

ways to protect against vampire creativity

creative appeal
tie ads together thematically
update theme to keep it fresh

persuasion

process of attitude formation and or change and modification of behavior based on attitudes change and reinforcement

success of persuasion campaign depends on

-transmitted communication
-modified attitutdes influence people's behavior in the extpected way

decision triggers

-authority
-likeability
-social proof
-scarcity
-reciprocity:
-consistency

emotion model of ELM

under the peripheral route emotion states have a stronger impact of persuasion (form of classical conditioning)
when elaboration likelihood is high, emotion can introduce biased thinking (positive more accessible when happy, negative when sad)= state depe

power

ability to obtain from others outcomes that you want
*The behavior of others can be affected through
coercion (sticks)
inducements (carrots)
attraction (making others want what you want)

news gap in journalism

Supply-Demand gap in low versus high
competition environments.
? In low competition environments the
gap was "tolerable" and let news
organizations fulfill public-service as a
byproduct of their business.
? In high competition environment?

dimensions of public policy

Permanent communications that explain policy to foreign press & audiences
direct communication
Strategic communications around events or themes
Developing lasting relations with key individuals
Acknowledge government mistrust working through the private s