This document defines key terminology related to media consumption, including diversions as escaping from everyday problems and routines, personal relationships as using media for emotional interaction instead of family life, personal identity as finding yourself reflected in media texts and learning behaviors and values from them, and surveillance as obtaining useful information for living from media like weather reports, financial news, and holiday bargains.
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1. Key Terminology
Diversions: Escape from everyday problems and routines.
Personal relationships: using the media for the emotional and other interaction,
(e.g. substituting soap operas for family life.
Personal identity: finding yourself reflected in text, learning behaviours and values
from texts.
Surveillance: info which could be useful for living (e.g. weather reports, financial
news, holiday bargains).