Test 3: Relationships and Identities

Question 1

Identity

Answer 1

is a concept that communication scholars use to explore the answers humans give to these fundamental questions.

changes overtime, everything influences it. Arises in communication and relationships.

Question 2

who/what influences our identity?

Answer 2

Parents have biggest impact on our identity according to psychoanalysis
Family
Peers
Society
Teachers, etc
Mutual/changeable
Multidimensional: refers to the idea that these identifying categories have their limits. Can help us find our way to an extent

Question 3

Orientalism

Answer 3

asks the question of why, preconceived notion (example of middle east and stereotypes even if we have never been, how they speak, act, etc)

Question 4

George Gerber

Answer 4

His research focused on media affects and particularly violence
Content analysis (quantitative)
Counted every instant of violence and when a man or woman was the main character, ratio was 3:1 (men-women)

Question 5

What did John Berger and Laurel Mulvey create?

Answer 5

the male gaze theory

Question 6

Why is the male gaze theory still relevant?

Answer 6

First scholars say women enjoy the films from male gaze, when women became directors/producers they also used the male gaze for films

Question 7

essentialism

Answer 7

assuming and attributing a quality that is fixed and unchanging to an individual or group
ex:

Question 8

colonialism

Answer 8

the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically
ex: spanish influence in Latin America

Question 9

nationalism

Answer 9

loyalty and devotion to a nation
MURICA

Question 10

Who was James Baldwin?

Answer 10

a gay American writer. He garnered acclaim across various media, including essays, novels, plays, and poems

Question 11

Frantz Fanon

Answer 11

West Indian psychoanalyst and social
philosopher known for his theory that some neuroses are socially generated and for his
writings on behalf of the national liberation of colonial peoples. His critiques influenced
subsequent generations of thinkers and activists.

Question 12

Who is the narrator in Killing Us Softly 4?

Answer 12

Jean Kilbourne

Question 13

Edward Said

Answer 13

developed the term orientalism

Question 14

What was the significance of Edward Said’s book?

Answer 14

orientalism revolutionized the study of the middle east and helped to create and shape entire new fields of study such as Post-Colonial theory as well as disciplines as diverse as English, History, Anthropology, Political Science, and Cultural Studies.

Translated into 26 languages and required at lots of colleges and universities
one of the most controversial books of the last 30 years

Question 15

What sparked Edward Said’s interest in orientalism?

Answer 15

1. Arab-Israeli war of 1973 when media would depict the Arabs as weak and cowardly.
2. felt disparity with a lack of representation of real Arab culture in in art

Question 16

How did Frantz Fanon study psyche?

Answer 16

during World War II, he served in the Free French Army and then served as head of psychiatry in a Algeria hospital, studied the effects of colonial violence on Algerian and French soldiers

Question 17

How did Fanon perceive colonialism?

Answer 17

a form of domination whose necessary goal for success was the reordering of the world of indigenous (“native”) peoples

Question 18

Micheal Foucault

Answer 18

was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault’s theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions

Question 19

What happened in Belgium with Congo?

Answer 19

statues of Leopold II torn down bc when he established the Congo Free State by brutally seizing the African landmass as his personal possession

Question 20

What is postcolonialism?

Answer 20

any work scholarly or creative that deals with the issues of European colonization and that traces what the colonizers did

simple definition: a study of the effects of colonialism on cultures and societies

Question 21

identity politics

Answer 21

a study of the effects of colonialism on cultures and societies

Question 22

What did Said argues?

Answer 22

Said argues Europe and US views the Middle East in a lens, a framework used to understand the unfamiliar and strange can make the people of the Middle East seem unfamiliar and strange

Question 23

Foucault’s point about power

Answer 23

Individuals are NOT totally powerless in the face of modern mechanisms of surveillance and control.
Modern power is impersonal. Panopticon makes it seem as if power resides in the machine, not in the operator.
Power is not necessarily “bad,” because it can also be productive (i.e. it’s better we stop at the right light while driving).
Power is not merely a physical force but a pervasive human dynamic.

Question 24

Panopticon

Answer 24

refers to a watchtower in a prison

Question 25

Panoptic

Answer 25

“all-seeing” (pan = all; optic = seeing)