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Media Final Flashcards

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media

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The main means of mass communication
Outlet used to store and deliver information

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media studies

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The study of the mass media as an academic subject

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critical thinking

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The objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment

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argument

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“A claim advanced with a reason or reasons in its support”

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Karl Marx

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Philosopher who invented Marxism and wrote the Communist Manifesto

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Marxism

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A theory presented by Marx that focuses on the struggle between capitalist and the working class (Class conflict)

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Political economy of media

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focuses on economic distribution and on the relationship between the economy and democratic politics (Fenton

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capitalism

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Refers to a system in which the circulation of money and profit making becomes an end in itself at the expense of labor and laborer

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false consciousness

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Person’s inability to recognize inequality, oppression, and exploitation in a capitalist society due to the prevalence within it of views that naturalize and legitimize the existence of social classes

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commodification

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The action of treating something as a mere commodity (material)

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media labor

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ideology

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Simply put, it is the ideas behind a media text, the secret (or sometimes not-so secret) agenda of its producers.

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hegemony

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a type of domination based primarily on dominated people’s and groups’ consent rather than purely on a leader’s coercion and exerted force (think of dictators or veil video)

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media regulation

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Promoting Diversity and flow of information
content: focuses mainly on indecency, sex and violence

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types of media regulation

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Media regulation by the government:
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Department of Justice (DOJ)
Landmark Acts
Radio Act of 1927
Communications Act of 1934 (FCC was established by this Act).
Telecommunications Act of 1996

Media regulation by the industry (self regulation):
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA

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deregulation

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the removal of regulations or restrictions, especially in a particular industry

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conglomeration

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A company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises
ex: AOL and Time Warner

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vertical and horizontal intergration

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Vertical: A media company owns different businesses in the same chain of production and distribution
Horizontal: A media company takes control of another media company that is in a similar field

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National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)

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Self regulation by the industry

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Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

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In 1968 the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) established a system of movie ratings for parents to use as a guide to determine the appropriateness of a film’s content for children and teenagers. The ratings system is voluntary, and there is no legal requirement that filmmakers submit their films for rating

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Media ownership

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The common ownership of multiple media sources by a single person or corporate entity

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Big Six and who owns what

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Comcast: Brian Roberts (Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, Focus Features, and Illumination Entertainment)
The Walt Disney Company: Bob Iger (Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel)
At&T: Randall Stephenson (Warner Bros. Pictures, HBO Films, DC Films, and CNN Films)
21st Century Fox: James Murdoch (20th Century Fox, Blue Sky Studios, Fox Searchlight Pictures)
National Amusement, Inc. : Sumner Redstone
( also owned by NAI) CBS Corporation (CBS Films and CBS Records)
Viacom (Paramount Pictures, Comedy Central Films, Nickelodeon Movies)

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When was the FCC established?

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent regulatory government agency established by the Communications Act of 1934. The act created a seven-person board (reduced to five in 1983) charged with developing and regulating a rapid, efficient, nationwide communications system.

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Telecommunications act of 1996

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The act significantly reduced regulations on media concentration and cross-ownership of media outlets. This deregulation led to less competition and allowed such companies as AOL/Time-Warner and Viacom to purchase multiple media outlets in local markets

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Media and democracy

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accounting of people in power
fact checking
diversity of opinions

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AT&T - Time Warner merger

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fourth largest deal attempted in media
idea was they have leverage over rivals and extract higher prices
vertical integration

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Robert McChesney

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3 main components in political economy of the media:

  1. addresses in a critical manner how the media system interacts with and affects the overall disposition of power in society
  2. examines how market structures, advertising support, labor relations, profit motivation, technologies, and government policies shape media industries, journalistic practices, occupational sociology, and the nature and content of the news and entertainment
  3. detailed examination of the policymaking process
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Functions of Journalism in a democracy

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The purpose of journalism is thus to provide citizens with the information they need to make the best possible decisions about their lives, their communities, their societies, and their governments

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advertising + commercial media

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affects how we consume products and purchases
all around us, see 3,000 ads a day (supposedly)

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synergy

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Combination of elements to maximize profits

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block-buster

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typically used to describe a feature film produced by a major film studio, but also other media—that is highly popular and financially successful

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cross promotion

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The use of one product or service to promote another

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Representation and language

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R: Communication through symbols, like words or image, that stand for other things
Standing for is what representation is
Emphasizes political and symbolic

Language: Without language, nothing meaningful exists

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Structuralism

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Approach to media analysis which borrows its principles from linguistics (the study of language)

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Poststructuralism

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a set of 20th century about language and representation, that have been very influential in the humanities. especially in literary criticism

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Semiotics

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study of everything that can be used for communications
smallest unit of meaningis called the sign

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sign

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signifier
signified
referent

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arbitrary nature of the sign

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there is no logical relationship between signifier or signified

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signifer

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a sign is physical form (like sound, printed word, image)

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signifed

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meaning/idea expressed by a sign
(image that pops into head or resonates)

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chain of signification

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series of signifiers that are linked together
range of different but linked texts
each sign “sides under” the subsequent signifer

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denotation

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literal meaning

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connotation

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associated meaning

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myth

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cultural meaning of a sign

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text

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can be almost anything that you can give meaning to: song, movie, book, painting, etc.

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author

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in the form of director, writer, showrunner, or game designer—is useful: useful to media industry marketing
machines, and useful to scholars analyzing bodies of work

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reader

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Makes meaning shaped by available linguistic and cultural referents, social position, and other factors
Readers can read the text in a variety of ways (accept, negotiate, or oppose)

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intertexuality

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seeks and theorsies links and connections between media texts and textualism social life

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textual analysis

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Primary mode of “doing” media studies, as scholars seek to ascertain what a text means, how it means, and what its themes, messages and explicit and implicit assumptions aim to accomplish

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polysemy

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interpretive scope of media texts, the argument being that several interpretations coexist as potentials in any one text (more than one perspective)

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discourse

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Language is structured in patterns or discourses
Language is fundamentally unstable
Meanings are flexible and can never be permanent fixed
Different discourses are engaged in a constant struggle with one another to achieve hegemony, that ism to fix the meanings of language in their own way
Discourse limits our horizon. It is difficult to think out of it

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discursive struggle

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competing

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Ferdinand de Saussure

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looked at element of language and divided into two parts: sound of word signifier and what it represents: signifer the union of the two is a sign
FS: gave college lectures, died, students made a book with his notes

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Charles Sanders Peirce

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Peirce’s Sign Theory, or Semiotic, is an account of signification, representation, reference and meaning

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Roland Barthes

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Barthes argues that myth is the primary way in which the mass media communicate ideological meaning.

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Stuart Hall

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influenced by: postructuralism
believed: languages as a system of representation
“without language nothing meaningful exists”

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Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe

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Wrote about political discourse
The workings of hegemony
Contemporary social struggles
Discourse theory

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Franz Fanon

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West Indian psychoanalyst and social
philosopher known for his theory that some neuroses are socially generated and for his
writings on behalf of the national liberation of colonial peoples. His critiques influenced
subsequent generations of thinkers and activists

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James Baldwin

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a gay American writer. He garnered acclaim across various media, including essays, novels, plays, and poems

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Cultural studies

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an interdisciplinary field that aims to understand power and inequalities through the analysis of popular culture

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identity

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is a concept that communication scholars use to explore the answers humans give to these fundamental questions.

changes overtime, everything influences it. Arises in communication and relationships

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identity politics

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a study of the effects of colonialism on cultures and societies

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Killing Us Softly/Jean Kilbourne

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documentary on the depiction of women in advertising and how it promotes unrealistic beauty standards or objectifying women

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Edward Said

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developed the term orientalism

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Postcolonial studies

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any work scholarly or creative that deals with the issues of European colonization and that traces what the colonizers did

simple definition: a study of the effects of colonialism on cultures and societies

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Orientalism

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asks the question of why, preconceived notion (example of middle east and stereotypes even if we have never been, how they speak, act, etc)

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Gender/gender stereotypes

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Male/Female sex
Ascribing a man or woman certain characteristics solely due to their membership in the social group of men or women

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Feminism

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media is a foundational tenet to feminism
the early 1970s, labeled as analyzing “sex role stereotypes,” relied on content analysis to quantify what kinds of roles women had in TV shows or how often female voiceovers (as opposed to male) were used to sell a host of products like laundry detergent or cosmetics

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Feminist media studies

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Driven by the conviction that sexism and discrimination against girls and women in employment, education, relationships (every aspects of everyday life) were driven and legitimated by dismissive stereotypes of women in the media
Society was structured, institutionally and ideologically, through patriarchy (the domination of men over women)

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male gaze theory

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made by J Berger and L Mulvey
through media and culture women are objectified and seen primarily for their physical appearance

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intersectionality

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encourages an interrogation of media that acknowledges the intersecting gender, class, and racial dimensions of media representations

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Micheal Foucault

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was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault’s theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions

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power

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Foucault: everyone has some form of power

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panoptican

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refers to a watchtower in a prison

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essentialism

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assuming and attributing a quality that is fixed and unchanging to an individual or group

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symbolic annihilation

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george gerber’s studies with effects on violence

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postfeminism

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Phase beyond feminism where it isn’t needed and is a thing of the past
The commodification of feminism

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Betty Friedan

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Writer of The Feminine Mystique that singled out the mass media as a central culprit in promoting sexist representation of women

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George Gerber

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His research focused on media affects and particularly violence
Content analysis (quantitative)
Counted every instant of violence and when a man or woman was the main character, ratio was 3:1 (men-women)

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Laura Mulvey

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within film, males are the active viewer and females become the passive subjects, meant to represent male desire (male gaze theory)

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Angela McRobbie

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a magazine for teenage girls, laid out how dismissing such a publication as “silly, harmless nonsense”
ignores the powerful ideological work it does in socializing girls into restrictive codes of femininity. Another line of work, however, began to ask why women might take pleasure in media texts created for them even if such texts were denigrated as examples of “trashy” mass culture

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Janice Radway

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Reading the romance 1984, found that despite narratives that affirmed women’s subordination to men, the novels also provided satisfying fantasies of
women humanizing the male heroes, making them more nurturing and caring
all thought housework was unrewarding

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John Berger

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the representations of men and women in visual culture entice different “gazes”, different ways in which they are looked at, with men having the legitimization of examining women, and women also examine women (male gaze theory)
argued that female nudes were painted for the
pleasure of male viewers, that women were constantly under surveillance, and that such depictions persisted right up to the present.

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referent

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the thing that a word/phrase denotes/stands for (the actual item)

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discourse analysis

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interested in power relations in
language and what people actively do with language. They are interested in (among other things)
* ideological effects of discursive practices
* patterns of domination and subordination

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semiotic analysis

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the study of everything that can be used for communication: words, images, traffic signs, flowers, etc

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rhetorical analysis

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informs, persuades or motivates audiences by appealing to emotions, as well as shared values or logic

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colonialism

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the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically
ex: spanish influence in Latin America

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Silvio Berlusconi

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italian media tycoon and politician

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Rupert Murdoch

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Businessman, media proprietor, and investor

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Sumner Redstone

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Businessman and media magnate who was the founder and chairman of Viacom

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Antonio Gramsci

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wrote about hegemony

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ad hominem

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personal attack on someone’s character rather than addressing the actual issue

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cross advertising

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Targeted with a similar product after being a customer of another product

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history vs histories

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The history assumes body of knowledge that is objective
Histories pays attention to how multiple perspectives depict an event

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fallacy

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a failure in reasoning which renders an argument as valid

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