media language

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media text

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any media product e.g film , newspaper, video game, that can be analysed and deconstructed.

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genre

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a particular type of media that can be categorised based on its conventions

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codes

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the means by which signs re systematically constructed to create meaning

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conventions

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a common way of producing a media text in terms of content and style

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signs

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they convey messages and ideas to an audience through technical and visual codes.

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form

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the type of media that is presented to audiences (newspapers ,film, magazines , music etf)

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content

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info that can be delivered through various media e.g radio, internet, television, audio

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narrative

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the way in which a story is plotted and described.

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anchorage

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fixing a meaning-for example, in newspapers the text anchors the meaning of the image of vice versa

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signification

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the conveyance if meaning

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denotation

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the literal, surface meaning of pf the object, word or image

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connotation

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when the denotated word or image is connected to the audiences own broader cultural concepts

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nutralisation

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the process of making something artificial and constructed seem natural

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mise en scene

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the purposeful arrangement of specific elements present in a media text

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intertextuality

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when a media text makes references to another existing text

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binary

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a system in which there are only two distinct elements

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dichotomy

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a concept wherein a dialogue is created from two ideas which are seen to be opposite and contradictory - for instance ,the dichotomy of good and evil

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hybrid genres

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when a text holds the conventions of two or more different genres

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structuralism

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the belief that a single element can only be fully understood when compared to the larger systems that it exists within

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postmodernism

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a rejection of modernist ideals and its key belief in technology and science as being solely positive

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simulacrum

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the singular form of simulacra- an imitation of something without the inherit quality r essence of the original thing that it is imitating

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hyperreality

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the breakdown between the ‘real world’ and the constructed version of reality, to the point where the two become indistinguishishable

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simulation

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a space we exists in as modern humans in a digital world is a combination of both the physical real world and the constructed technological world of the media