3.1 Digital Media & Identity Flashcards
(Class) which class have strongest sense of identity?
Upper class
(Class) bourdieu says the upper class have what?
Cultural and social capital
(Class) what is cultural capital?
Activities and knowledge
(Class) what is social capital?
Who you know
Your contacts
(Class) social closure is used to keep who out?
Those of a lower class
(Class)how is social closure achieved?
Intermarriage
Education at top public schools
(Class) strinati - how does the media provide access to upper class culture?
Blurring of high culture and popular culture
E.g. Novels like dickens made into film
(Class) class is becoming less what?
Important/significant
(Gender) Connell - what are hegemonic gender ideals?
Dominant ideas about the behaviour of a person of a certain gender
E.g. Men should be strong
(Gender) how are hegemonic gender ideals reinforces through the media?
Advertising
Celebrities lifestyles
(Gender) Wolf - the media reinforces what?
A beauty ideal for women
(Gender) Mulvey - what is the male gaze and how is it related to the media?
The way the camera eyes up women
Games sexualising women
Adverts featuring young women
(Gender) give examples of reinforced gender ideals in the media:
Models in magazines
Photoshop
(Gender) give examples of gender ideals being challenged in the media:
Haraway cyborg theory
(Age) what is childhood seen as?
Innocent
(Age) children are viewed as vulnerable and in need of what?
Protection
(Age) how is the idea of children being need of protection reinforces through the media?
Net nannies - blocking sites
Parental control
Censorship
(Age) but what does palmer say childhood is becoming in relation to digital media?
Toxic - children being babysat by technology
(Age) what does postman say is happening to childhood relating to digital media?
Disappearing
Children exposed to adult content online
(Age) are youth subcultures made stronger or weaker through the media?
Stronger
(Age) how are youth subcultures becoming stronger through media and what is less relevant?
Can share knowledge and create networks online
Age is less relevant
(Age) what do featherstone and hepsworth say old people are forced to wear?
The mask of old age - feeling here is a certain identity you have to take on when you reach old age
(Age) what does media allow older people to do?
Resist the mask of old age
