Newman Chapter 1: Significance of media Flashcards
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circuit of culture– as derived from movement of “cultural studies”
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- values art for its expressive qualities
- influential in 1970s-1980s
- expresses struggle in society, where powerful can assert their dominance and less powerful can exercise resistance
- regards media as a part of a circuit that links production, consumption, and the text to the social world
2
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being “analytical”
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- to break things down into parts and appreciate how they fit together
- testing logic behind perspectives
- need evidence
3
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being “critical”
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- sees text as a forum that maintains or resists features about a society (as a capitalistic, patriarchal society)
- how can we imagine a media environment other than the one we might know?
- how might the text be different?
- suggesting political investment
