Others Flashcards
Culture industry
The production of media
Polysemy
When a word or phase has many meanings
Intentional fallacy
Basing an assessment of the work on the authors intention rather than one’s response to the actual work
Auteur
A filmmaker is seen as the author of a movie
Prosumer
A consumer who helped the development of a product
Mimesis
Representation of the real world in art
Social construction of reality
When people create their own understanding of reality
Normative identity
A sense of self that follows social norms
Non-normative identity
Identities that goes against social norms
Male gaze
Media that is made for male viewing
The fourth estate
The press and news media in their explicit capacity beyond reporting the news
Regime of representation
A way to control how certain identities are perceived
Computational thinking
A way to solve problems
Planned obsolescence
When a company makes their product lives short so people have to buy more
Greenwashing
When a company tells the consumer they are better for the environment than they actually are
