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WorksheetsTheory Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which theorist speaks about repetition and difference in genre?
Barthes
Neale
Gauntlett
Todorov
Which theorist says Men and women are represented differently in the media. Women are objectified as a result of Western culture.
Gilroy
Butler
bell hooks
Van Zoonen
The lines between created texts and reality are becoming blurred creating Hyper-reality - who said this?
Levi-Strauss
Hall
Baudrillard
Gilroy
Who said: "The more we see the same representations and messages the more we believe they are true - Mean World Syndrome"
Gerbner
Bandura
Jenkins
Livingstone and Lunt
Whose theory looks at the conflict faced on regulation for the citizen compared to the consumer - what we need to know and what takes away privacy
Shirky
Curran and Seaton
Hesmondhalgh
Livingstone and Lunt
What is Barthes Theory?
Feminism is a political struggle to end patriarchal domination. Other factors affect this domination, including race and class.
All elements of a media text are codes that need to be read. These can all be understood as the thing they are (denotative level) and the responses they create (connotative level).
We are now more likely to use the internet and other technologies to respond to texts, including creating our own.
Industry uses tried and tested strategies to appeal to us- but we should be concerned that only a few companies hold a lot of power.
Who said this?
We use the internet and other media texts to help us to create our identity. We now have more of a variety of representations to identify with.
Gilroy
Gauntlett
Hesmondhalgh
Hall
What is Butler's theory?
Men and women are represented differently in the media. Women are objectified as a result of Western culture.
Feminism is a political struggle to end patriarchal domination. Other factors affect this domination, including race and class.
Even though we no longer have colonies, the representation of these groups is still affected by that time.
Gender is a social construction. ‘Masculine’ and ‘feminine’ are created through repetition.
Who said this as an Audience theory?
Producers want audiences to respond in a particular way to a text. Some audiences do (preferred), some don’t (oppositional) some are in the middle (negotiated)
Jenkins
Bandura
Hall
Shirky
Who said this?
If we had more of a variety of media companies we’d have more of a variety of texts.
Livingstone and Lunt
Curran and Seaton
Neale
bell hooks
