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added valueadded value extra or additional promotionservice or benefit that a publicationcan <strong>of</strong>fer its advertisers, suchas supplements or special sectionsaddendum section <strong>of</strong> a book, magazine,or Web site that is tacked on,usually at the end, such as an appendixor a further reading sectionaddressable technology equipmentenabling a program provider (such asa cable television provider) to switchto pay servicesaddressee in Roman Jakobson’smodel <strong>of</strong> communication, thereceiver(s) <strong>of</strong> a message; the person(s)to whom a message is addressedaddresser in Roman Jakobson’smodel <strong>of</strong> communication, term referringto the sender(s) <strong>of</strong> a message;that is, the person(s) who addresses amessage to someoneadjacency commercial break betweentelevision programsAdler, Alfred (1870–1937) Austrianpsychiatrist who coined the terminferiority complex, which he saw asthe primary source <strong>of</strong> characteristicbehaviors and <strong>of</strong> most neuroses—incontrast to Freud’s emphasis onsexual drives as the primary psychicforces. Adler’s most influential worksare Über den nervösen Charakter(1912; The Nervous Constitution)and Menschenkenntnis (1927; UnderstandingHuman Nature). His worksare <strong>of</strong>ten cited in psychological studies<strong>of</strong> media reception and communicationproblems.admass segment <strong>of</strong> society at whichan advertising campaign is aimedadministrative research term firstused by Paul Lazarsfeld in 1941to describe the type <strong>of</strong> research carriedout by teams <strong>of</strong> researchers orinstitutions, using empirical methods(such as opinion polling) and seekingto answer clearly defined problems(who watches TV, why they watch it,how effective are advertising messages,and so on)adnorm measure <strong>of</strong> readership averagesfor print publications over atwo-year period, used as a baselinefor comparing specific ads on averagetermsAdobe Acrobat trade name for s<strong>of</strong>twaredeveloped by Adobe Systemsthat converts documents and formattedpages in such a way that they canbe viewed on a computerAdobe Photoshop graphics editings<strong>of</strong>tware developed by AdobeSystemsAdorno, Theodor (1903–1969)influential German Marxist thinkerwho was a leading figure in the socalledFrankfurt School. Adornoberated pop culture as an aberration<strong>of</strong> true culture. He and MaxHorkheimer (another FrankfurtSchool founder) coined the termculture industry to describe the10

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