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    • Topic 7
      • Title Page
      • Topic 1: The History of Print and Storytelling to the Masses
      • Topic 2: Mass Media Today: How Digital Changed Everything
      • Topic 3: The Money behind the Media: The Business of Eyeballs and Engagement
      • Topic 4: How Social Media Makes Money by Selling Our Content to Ourselves
      • Topic 5: Early Theories: Mass Communication’s Powerful Impact on Us as Individuals
      • Topic 6: Media Theories: How Do We Influence the Message and the Meaning?
      • Topic 7: Media Effects: The Impact of Today’s “Always On” Media
      • Topic 8: The Ethics of Communications: Harnessing the Power of the Media
      • Topic 9: Media’s Societal Effects: The Making of America
      • Topic 10: Media Literacy Today: Our Responsibility
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    • Topic 7: Media Effects: The Impact of Today’s “Always On” Media
    • 7.1 Introduction: It’s Still All about the Money
    • 7.2 Normalization Means “To Make Normal”
    • 7.3 Magnification Means “To Make Something Appear Larger than It Really Is”
    • 7.4 Novelty Sells: New Is Better than Not New
    • 7.5 Sex (and Beauty, and Love—but Mostly Sex) SellsThis is the current section.
    • 7.6 Danger Sells: If It Bleeds It Leads
    • 7.7 It’s All about Me(dia): And Boy Do We Love Telling Stories about Ourselves
    • 7.8 Omnipresence Ruins Everything
    • 7.9 Summary
    • 7.10 Quick Check

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