Name, Explain, and Exemplify Three Types of Media Effects

question 38

Essay

Name, explain, and exemplify three types of media effects.

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Definitions:

Gilded Age

A period in late 19th-century America characterized by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and ostentatious wealth, but also marked by social inequalities and political corruption.

Fiscal Policy

Government policies concerning taxation and government spending to influence the economy.

Reform

The improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc., especially through political or social means.

Social Gospel

A Christian intellectual movement that applied Christian ethics to social problems, particularly issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.