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Censorship

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a way to exert hegemony

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Reading Media

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interpreting forms of the media similar to book

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Semiotic Analysis

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how things get their meaning

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Textual Analysis

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formal meanings of gender, sex, race, class, and nationality. It is one way of reading. Think about assignment from English freshman year with the different ways of interpreting a text.

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Mass media

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Social media, entertainment, cable news etc

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Society

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People in large groups with boundaries and barriers. Formal like family church and school

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Culture

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Knowledge, beliefs, and values that bind people together. A way to navigate a society. Media and artifacts and beliefs @ a particular moment.

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High vs Low culture

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A way to criticize difference in culture and create different barriers for media.

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Cultural studies

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Interdisciplinary, political, contextual

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Interdisciplinary

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Multiple academic arenas to study media

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Political

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Power focused on equalities and inequities.

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Contextual

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historical moment, location, and medium

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Media Criticism

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A model that makes text, system and audience “strange” in order to think differently.

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Circuit of cultural

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The mixture of production, regulation, identity, consumption, and representation working together to create culture.

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Articulation

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Artifact becoming multiple parts of circuit oof culture forming disparate elements into unity.

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Signification

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Production of meaning through language

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Semantic Network

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Terms connected to describe new artifact

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Production

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Who made, reproduce, distributed the artifact and who paid for the labor?

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Identity

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Who is involved in prosecuting and consuming and regulating the artifact?

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Consumption (reception)

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Who buys it, uses it, turns it into identity? Who can and can’t afford the artifact? How is it advertised?

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Representation

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How and from whom does the meaning come from? What is the meaning beyond the surface?

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Regulation

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Formal and informal rules affected by artifact. Is it legal or illegal in production or consumption?

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Signifying practices

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meaningful movements around artifact (pressing start)

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Soundscape

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all sounds that can be heard in daily life

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media technology
ways of distributing media (images, down, news)
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Ideology
system of ideas that unconsciously shape and constrains beliefs and behaviors
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Ways ideology structure the world
1. Limits range of acceptable ideas 2. interpolates us 3. remains primarily unconscious 4. Privileges some ideas over others 5. Normalizes power relations
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Ideological State Apparatus (ISA)
Church, state, Schools, Media
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Hegemony
method for gaining and maintaining power cultural hegemony people don't really notice it or think about it.
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Antonio Gramsci
Riddle of Steele, ideas are more powerful than weapons
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Conter hegemonic
actively questions and rejecting dominant ideology
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Hegemonic negations
Tension between hegemonic, and counter hegemonic ideas
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Theodor Adorno
Philosopher against capitalism for 3 main reasons 1. Leisure becomes toxic 2. Doesn't sell us stuff we need 3. creates photo fascists everywhere
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The Cultural Industry
Pessimistic straight path only one way industry works. Focused on propaganda
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The Cultural Industries
Optimistic in approach to understanding, more round about in understanding.
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Brand
A way of distinguishing between different companies and their products.
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Brand Culture
A way of associating with a certain brand a and belonging to it. Like being a Mac user
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Commodity Activism
Use of buying or not buying based on beliefs.
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Technology Determinism
Technology informs society
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Medium Theory
The focus on technology as influence of society rather than the content on the technology
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"The Medium is the Message"
Marshall McLuhan's famous saying from the Medium Theory
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Time Shifting
The fact that mass media changes how much time goes by. Reading versus watching Netflix
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Binging
Watching multiple episodes in a row, typically a whole season over one sitting period.
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Fake News
News that is constructed or slightly fabricated but reads and looks like real news. It is typically tied to more extreme ends of the political spectrum and tied to clickbait, vertical integration, and code to get people to buy products.
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Social construction of technology
Society informs technology: Failed technologies that don't make it because society rejects it.
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Post-Truth
the theory about society today that truth is really hard to find because of the fake news swirling around
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Global village
How mass media and the internet has made the world smaller more familiar and more available
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Society of the spectacle
Images and appearance over reality. The ideas that construction of reality is better than reality
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Simulacra and simulation
Based on Jean Bauudrillard about how modernization has changed society and we are inundated by sensory overload. The depiction of something that has no original and the depiction of real world process.
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Stuart Hall
One of the earliest philosopher to want to study media and culture as similar also has a theory that messages are encoded into media to be decoded by the audience.
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Adorno and Horkheimer
Capitalism corrupts theory around culture industry
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Antonio Gramsci
Hegemony and using ideology to assert power and influence and keep it that way. Along with Counter hegemonic and hegemonic negotiations.
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David Hesmondhalgh
Culture Industries and the idea that there are more than one way to study the culture productions machines because they are not similar and to be bundled together.
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James Lull
Author of Hegemony studying power dynamics and how a group can use a dominating ideology to stay in power.
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Marshall McLuhan
The Medium is the message dude who was curious about the effects of technology itself on society rather than the content. For instance how did a TV disrupt life rather than the shows we see on TV.

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