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00:00:00 – 00:19:26
The video explores how media determines and presents news, focusing on the principles of newsworthiness and media effects theories like agenda-setting, priming, and framing. Newspapers and TV programs select headlines based on their perceived importance, often highlighting significant events such as Human Rights Commission news while neglecting issues like climate change. News media values—timeliness, significance, prominence, and more—guide these choices, but bias can seep in through slanted reporting and unsubstantiated facts.
Agenda-setting theory is explained as the media’s power to influence public perception by emphasizing specific topics repeatedly, a tactic that can lead to biased thinking. Priming theory is discussed, showing how continuous exposure to certain messages, like biased polling during elections, can shape our memories and biases, affecting decisions such as voting preferences. The video also delves into framing, describing it as the way information is presented to shape perception. Examples include the different impacts of labeling a product as "80% fat-free" versus "20% fat." Lastly, the metaphor of a gate is introduced to illustrate how media control access to information, further influencing public understanding and perception.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses how headlines in newspapers and TV programs are chosen to highlight what editors deem important for the public to know. They use the example of news about the Human Rights Commission as significant news and contrast it with often overlooked issues like climate change. Additionally, they mention that some news can be shallow, citing the reporting of the last two episodes of a Korean drama as an example.
00:06:00
In this segment, the video discusses news media values and criteria for determining newsworthiness, including timeliness, significance, prominence, proximity, oddity, and consequence. The concept of agenda-setting is examined, highlighting its misuse due to media bias or biased sources such as spin, unsubstantiated facts, opinion over fact, slanted news, omissions, and flawed logic. The segment concludes with a brief mention of priming theory, explaining it as the repetition of certain images, ads, or messages.
00:09:00
In this segment, the video discusses how repeated messaging through various media channels, such as social media, news, and newspapers, can create immediate recall and influence our thinking and decisions. This principle, known as priming, triggers our biases. The video uses elections as an example, showing that biased polling can affect our voting choices by making us less likely to vote for a candidate perceived as losing. Moreover, the segment highlights that unscientific or biased polls and advertising, such as those promoting certain beauty standards, can implant false ideas by constant repetition, embedding these notions into our memory.
00:12:00
In this part of the video, the speaker explains the concept of framing, using the analogy of a picture frame to illustrate how information is presented. The discussion focuses on the theory’s two stages: frame building and frame-setting, with a mention of agenda-setting and news values. The speaker highlights external factors that can influence framing, such as space or airtime limitations and media owners’ influence. An example provided compares the perception difference between selling frozen yogurt labeled as “80% fat-free” versus “20% fat,” demonstrating how framing affects perception despite the information being the same.
00:15:00
In this part of the video, the discussion revolves around how the repetition of the frame and the media choices of the audience impact their perception and understanding.
00:18:00
In this part of the video, the speaker introduces the concept of a gate to explain a theory related to media effects. The gate serves as a metaphor for access control, indicating that if the gate is closed, one cannot pass through, symbolizing restricted access to information.