Quiz 7 Flashcards
Vision
Physical apparatus
Apperception
Visual information merges with other sensory information along with existing memories and knowledge
Synaesthesia
Colors and shapes associated with sounds, smells and feelings.
Ocularcentrism
Critique says vision complicit in social oppression via surveillance and spectacle.
“Eye of God”
Idea of controlling deity
Panopticon
“all seeing” prison design
Michel Foucault
Study of surveillance and power
Panopticism
Humans internalize scrutinizing gaze
Biopower
state has indirect control over citizens
“The Gaze”
Eye objectifies and masters
History of perception
different classes/different periods emphasized different senses/ways of perceiving
Visuality
Socialized vision; knowledge, interests, desires and social relations between perceiver and perceived.
Representation
Use of language and images to create meaning about the world.
Mimesis
Mirroring the world
Social construction
Making meaning only through specific cultural contexts
Mediated vision
Seeing images vs. seeing the world
Media visual representations
intentional, encoded communications
Mediatization
a theory that argues that the media shapes and frames the processes and discourse (conversation) of political communication as well as the society in which that communication takes place
Haptic
Touch, texture and contour
Kinaesthetic
movement in muscles, tendons, and joints.
Scopic drive
desire to see; invocatory drive - desire to hear
Artifacts and viewers
viewing as active mental process; subjective/objective; field of reception theory
