Quotes, definitions, examples

Question 1

Define cancel culture

Answer 1

the mass withdrawal of support from public figures and celebrities owing to socially unacceptable actions

Question 2

Impressionable youth by media

Answer 2

“How impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children”

Question 3

“bad” story

Answer 3

“a single story of catastophe”

Question 4

presentation of a person as one thing

Answer 4

“show people as one thing, as only one thing, and that is what they become”

Question 5

the consequence of a single story

Answer 5

“it emphasises how different we are rather than how we are similar”

Question 6

the power of stories

Answer 6

“stories have been used to dispossess and malign but stories can also be used to empower and to humanise”

Question 7

stereotypes

Answer 7

“the single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete” (Adichie)

Question 8

Miss Albany

Answer 8

• Fake news on social meida: that she was brand ambassador, that she received funds
• Actually by a photographer
• public arg: publicity vs not intended
• South africans rallied together to pay for education

Question 9

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni

Answer 9

• media favoured Baldoni: empathetic, caring
• Lively: arrogant, sarcastic
• dv survivors to reach out: “should I give them my adress?” sarcastic
• May have actually been rational: not a trained professional
• We don’t know the true story
• backlash about marketing

Question 10

Luister

Answer 10

• Made by white UCT students
• Stellenbosch Uni -> meant to be 50% afrikaans, 50% english
• # WhereIsTheLove
• “like I’m in a different country”
• “Silencing in South Africa is a nationa pastime” Malini Mohana

Question 11

hashtagFeesMustFall

Answer 11

• succeeded in a 0% fee increase in 2016
• protesting high student debt and fee hikes, which locked people out of education because of cost fees