Mass Media

5. Describes a set of shared concepts, methods, and assumptions that make up scientific reality at any point in time.
6. The gap between those with access to new technologies and those without.
9. Community in which the exchange of information is the main social and economic activity
10. The term meant to refer to the tendency of people to remain silent when they feel that their views are in opposition to the majority view on a subject.
11. Holds that scientific research should be judged solely on the basis of quality.
12. States that as new info enters society, wealthy and better-educated members acquire it at a faster rate that poor and less educated people.
13. Media executives, editors, or reporters who can open and close the "gate" on a particular news story.
16. Sociological investigation of how scientific knowledge develops.
17. The pursuit of knowledge through systematic methods.
18. The phenomenon where "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer".
19. Respected individuals in the community.

1. Social networks and the reciprocal norms associated with these networks that encourage people to do things for each other.
2. Belief that all scientific knowledge should be made available to everyone in the scientific community.
3. " Mass Media, Mass Culture" is the process whereby the mass media determine what we think and worry about. Walter Lippmann, a journalist first observed this function, in the 1920's.
4. No scientific finding or theory is exempt from questioning.
7. Instruments of communication that reach large audiences with no personal contact between those sending the information and those receiving it.
8. Scientists should seek truth, not personal gain.
14. The merging of mass communication outlets - print, television, radio, the Internet along with portable and interactive technologies through various digital media platforms
15. An objective and systematic way of collecting information and arriving at conclusions.