Modules 1-5 Flashcards
Censorship
a way to exert hegemony
Reading Media
interpreting forms of the media similar to book
Semiotic Analysis
how things get their meaning
Textual Analysis
formal meanings of gender, sex, race, class, and nationality. It is one way of reading. Think about assignment from English freshman year with the different ways of interpreting a text.
Mass media
Social media, entertainment, cable news etc
Society
People in large groups with boundaries and barriers. Formal like family church and school
Culture
Knowledge, beliefs, and values that bind people together. A way to navigate a society. Media and artifacts and beliefs @ a particular moment.
High vs Low culture
A way to criticize difference in culture and create different barriers for media.
Cultural studies
Interdisciplinary, political, contextual
Interdisciplinary
Multiple academic arenas to study media
Political
Power focused on equalities and inequities.
Contextual
historical moment, location, and medium
Media Criticism
A model that makes text, system and audience “strange” in order to think differently.
Circuit of cultural
The mixture of production, regulation, identity, consumption, and representation working together to create culture.
Articulation
Artifact becoming multiple parts of circuit oof culture forming disparate elements into unity.
Signification
Production of meaning through language
Semantic Network
Terms connected to describe new artifact
Production
Who made, reproduce, distributed the artifact and who paid for the labor?
Identity
Who is involved in prosecuting and consuming and regulating the artifact?
Consumption (reception)
Who buys it, uses it, turns it into identity? Who can and can’t afford the artifact? How is it advertised?
Representation
How and from whom does the meaning come from? What is the meaning beyond the surface?
Regulation
Formal and informal rules affected by artifact. Is it legal or illegal in production or consumption?