Theorists Flashcards
Stereotypes
Tessa Perkins
Male Gaze
Laura Mulvey
Ethnic representations
Alvarado
Cultural Imperialism
Downing and Sreberny-Mohammadi
Reception Theory
Stuart Hall
‘The only legitimate purpose of a government is to serve citizens, and the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives not enslave us.’
Rebecca Mackernen
Character theory
Propp
‘We are increasingly in a landscape where media is global, social, ubiquitous and cheap.’
Clay Shirky
Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow
‘Media is less and less often about crafting a single message to be consumed by individuals. It is more and more often a way of creating an environment for convening and supporting groups’
Clay Shirky
Plot structure (Equilibrium)
Todorov
‘We need deliberate democracy’
Cass Sustein
‘Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body-not too little, not too much, just right.’
Sherry Turkle
Queer Theory (1990) 'Gender should be seen as a fluid variable which shifts and changes in different contexts and at different times'
Judith Butler
Filter bubbles
Eli Pariser
