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Media Theorists

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

ROLAND BARTHES

a)

Media products have particular codes to engage certain audiences

b)

Genre is made up of repetition and difference

c)

Binary opposites are two completely different things that create drama and conflict

d)

Most media products follow a 3 part narrative structure;

- Equilibrium

- Disruption

- New Equilibrium

2.

Tzvetan Todorov

a)

Genre is made up of repetition and difference

b)

Most media products follow a 3 part narrative structure;

- Equilibrium

- Disruption

- New Equilibrium

c)

Postmodernism - in the modern world, what something represents has become more important than what it actually is.

d)

Binary opposites are two completely different things that create drama and conflict

3.

Claude Levi-Strauss

a)

Postmodernism - in the modern world, what something represents has become more important than what it actually is.

b)

Binary opposites are two completely different things that create drama and conflict

c)

Genre is made up of repetition and difference

d)

Most media products follow a 3 part narrative structure;

- Equilibrium

- Disruption

- New Equilibrium

4.

Steve Neale

a)

Binary opposites are two completely different things that create drama and conflict

b)

Most media products follow a 3 part narrative structure;

- Equilibrium

- Disruption

- New equilibrium

c)

Genre is made up of repetition and difference

d)

Media products have particular codes to engage certain audiences

5.

Jean Baudrillard

a)

Genre is made up of repetition and difference

b)

Media products have particular codes to engage certain audiences

c)

Binary opposites are two completely different things that create drama and conflict

d)

Postmodernism - in the modern world, what something represents has become more important than what it actually is.

6.

Stuart Hall

a)

Made up two pars;

- How audience learns things about themselves (identity)

- How media represents them (stereotypes)

b)

People are represented through stereotypes

c)

Gender is constructed through performance. Must do these particular behaviours / rituals

d)

In media women and men are represented differently

Men = suited to business

women = object

7.

David Gauntlett

a)

Made up two parts

- How audience learns things about themselves (identity)

- How media represents them (stereotypes)

b)

 

Look at status and power and whether it might relate to postcolonialism ideas. – Colonialism = taking over another country to run and exploit it

c)

The discrimination and oppression against women vary depending on ethnicity and class

d)

People are represented through stereotypes

8.

Liesbet Van Zoonen

a)

Made up two parts

- How audience learns things about themselves (identity)

- How media represents them (stereotypes)

b)

Gender is constructed through performance. Must do these particular behaviours / rituals

c)

The discrimination and oppression against women vary depending on ethnicity and class

d)

In media women and men are represented differently

Men = suited to business

women = object

9.

bell hooks

a)

People are represented through stereotypes

b)

The discrimination and oppression against women vary depending on ethnicity and class

c)

In media women and men are represented differently

Men = suited to business

women = object

d)

Look at status and power and whether it might relate to postcolonialism ideas. – Colonialism = taking over another country to run and exploit it

10.

Judith Butler

a)

Gender is constructed through performance. Must do these particular behaviours / rituals

b)

The discrimination and oppression against women vary depending on ethnicity and class

c)

Made up two parts

- How audience learns things about themselves (identity)

- How media represents them (stereotypes)

d)

Look at status and power and whether it might relate to postcolonialism ideas. – Colonialism = taking over another country to run and exploit it

11.

Paul Gilroy

a)

Made up two parts

- How audience learns things about themselves (identity)

- How media represents them (stereotypes)

b)

 

People are represented through stereotypes

c)

The discrimination and oppression against women vary depending on ethnicity and class

d)

 

Look at status and power and whether it might relate to postcolonialism ideas. – Colonialism = taking over another country to run and exploit it

12.

David Hesmondhalgh

a)

Technology has made regulations difficult. Powerful companies can avoid regulations because of their power. REGULATIONS = rules / control

b)

 

Media industries are all about profit and power. CONCENTRSATED OWNERSHIP = lack of choice, same product. INDEPENDENT DIVERSE OWNERSHIP = more choice, creativity

c)

Companies need to minimise risk and maximise audiences to be successful. Be horizontal or vertical integrated

13.

Curran & Seaton

a)

Companies need to minimise risk and maximise audiences to be successful. Be horizontal or vertical integrated

b)

 

Media industries are all about profit and power. CONCENTRSATED OWNERSHIP = lack of choice, same product. INDEPENDENT DIVERSE OWNERSHIP = more choice, creativity

c)

Technology has made regulations difficult. Powerful companies can avoid regulations because of their power. REGULATIONS = rules / control

14.

Livingstone & Lunt

a)

Companies need to minimise risk and maximise audiences to be successful. Be horizontal or vertical integrated

b)

Media industries are all about profit and power. CONCENTRSATED OWNERSHIP = lack of choice, same product. INDEPENDENT DIVERSE OWNERSHIP = more choice, creativity

c)

Technology has made regulations difficult. Powerful companies can avoid regulations because of their power. REGULATIONS = rules / control

15.

Henry Jenkins

a)

 

Audiences are more active, wanting to interact with the media. Technology has changed our expectations and behaviours. Audiences like to ‘speak back’ to producers

b)

Media products are encoded by producers for the audience to decode. PREFERRED = receive messages. NEGOTIATED = accept and reject messages. OPPOSITIONAL = don’t take on messages.

Audience read these differently depending on ethnicity, age, background

c)

Fans play a key role in media through textual poaching. TEXTUAL POACHING = audience takes media product and remake / reworks it to create their own meaning – Fanfiction, Fan art

d)

People (particular young) would copy behaviours see from media products. Does watching violent films make us violent

16.

George Gerbner

a)

Media tends to repeat representations of people over and over again. This cultivation effect can change the dominant ideologies of society

b)

Audiences are more active, wanting to interact with the media. Technology has changed our expectations and behaviours. Audiences like to ‘speak back’ to producers

c)

Fans play a key role in media through textual poaching. TEXTUAL POACHING = audience takes media product and remake / reworks it to create their own meaning – Fanfiction, Fan art

d)

People (particular young) would copy behaviours see from media products. Does watching violent films make us violent

17.

Stuart Hall-

a)

Media tends to repeat representations of people over and over again. This cultivation effect can change the dominant ideologies of society

b)

Media products are encoded by producers for the audience to decode. PREFERRED = receive messages. NEGOTIATED = accept and reject messages. OPPOSITIONAL = don’t take on messages.

Audience read these differently depending on ethnicity, age, background

c)

 

Audiences are more active, wanting to interact with the media. Technology has changed our expectations and behaviours. Audiences like to ‘speak back’ to producers

d)

People (particular young) would copy behaviours see from media products. Does watching violent films make us violent

18.

Albert Bandura

a)

 

Audiences are more active, wanting to interact with the media. Technology has changed our expectations and behaviours. Audiences like to ‘speak back’ to producers

b)

 

Media tends to repeat representations of people over and over again. This cultivation effect can change the dominant ideologies of society

c)

People (particular young) would copy behaviours see from media products. Does watching violent films make us violent

d)

Fans play a key role in media through textual poaching. TEXTUAL POACHING = audience takes media product and remake / reworks it to create their own meaning – Fanfiction, Fan art

19.

Clay Shirky

a)

Media products are encoded by producers for the audience to decode. PREFERRED = receive messages. NEGOTIATED = accept and reject messages. OPPOSITIONAL = don’t take on messages.

Audience read these differently depending on ethnicity, age, background

b)

People (particular young) would copy behaviours see from media products. Does watching violent films make us violent

c)

 

Media tends to repeat representations of people over and over again. This cultivation effect can change the dominant ideologies of society

d)

 

Audiences are more active, wanting to interact with the media. Technology has changed our expectations and behaviours. Audiences like to ‘speak back’ to producers