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WorksheetsMedia Theorists
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
ROLAND BARTHES
Media products have particular codes to engage certain audiences
Genre is made up of repetition and difference
Binary opposites are two completely different things that create drama and conflict
Most media products follow a 3 part narrative structure;
- Equilibrium
- Disruption
- New Equilibrium
Tzvetan Todorov
Genre is made up of repetition and difference
Most media products follow a 3 part narrative structure;
- Equilibrium
- Disruption
- New Equilibrium
Postmodernism - in the modern world, what something represents has become more important than what it actually is.
Binary opposites are two completely different things that create drama and conflict
Claude Levi-Strauss
Postmodernism - in the modern world, what something represents has become more important than what it actually is.
Binary opposites are two completely different things that create drama and conflict
Genre is made up of repetition and difference
Most media products follow a 3 part narrative structure;
- Equilibrium
- Disruption
- New Equilibrium
Steve Neale
Binary opposites are two completely different things that create drama and conflict
Most media products follow a 3 part narrative structure;
- Equilibrium
- Disruption
- New equilibrium
Genre is made up of repetition and difference
Media products have particular codes to engage certain audiences
Jean Baudrillard
Genre is made up of repetition and difference
Media products have particular codes to engage certain audiences
Binary opposites are two completely different things that create drama and conflict
Postmodernism - in the modern world, what something represents has become more important than what it actually is.
Stuart Hall
Made up two pars;
- How audience learns things about themselves (identity)
- How media represents them (stereotypes)
People are represented through stereotypes
Gender is constructed through performance. Must do these particular behaviours / rituals
In media women and men are represented differently
Men = suited to business
women = object
David Gauntlett
Made up two parts
- How audience learns things about themselves (identity)
- How media represents them (stereotypes)
Look at status and power and whether it might relate to postcolonialism ideas. – Colonialism = taking over another country to run and exploit it
The discrimination and oppression against women vary depending on ethnicity and class
People are represented through stereotypes
Liesbet Van Zoonen
Made up two parts
- How audience learns things about themselves (identity)
- How media represents them (stereotypes)
Gender is constructed through performance. Must do these particular behaviours / rituals
The discrimination and oppression against women vary depending on ethnicity and class
In media women and men are represented differently
Men = suited to business
women = object
bell hooks
People are represented through stereotypes
The discrimination and oppression against women vary depending on ethnicity and class
In media women and men are represented differently
Men = suited to business
women = object
Look at status and power and whether it might relate to postcolonialism ideas. – Colonialism = taking over another country to run and exploit it
Judith Butler
Gender is constructed through performance. Must do these particular behaviours / rituals
The discrimination and oppression against women vary depending on ethnicity and class
Made up two parts
- How audience learns things about themselves (identity)
- How media represents them (stereotypes)
Look at status and power and whether it might relate to postcolonialism ideas. – Colonialism = taking over another country to run and exploit it
Paul Gilroy
Made up two parts
- How audience learns things about themselves (identity)
- How media represents them (stereotypes)
People are represented through stereotypes
The discrimination and oppression against women vary depending on ethnicity and class
Look at status and power and whether it might relate to postcolonialism ideas. – Colonialism = taking over another country to run and exploit it
David Hesmondhalgh
Technology has made regulations difficult. Powerful companies can avoid regulations because of their power. REGULATIONS = rules / control
Media industries are all about profit and power. CONCENTRSATED OWNERSHIP = lack of choice, same product. INDEPENDENT DIVERSE OWNERSHIP = more choice, creativity
Companies need to minimise risk and maximise audiences to be successful. Be horizontal or vertical integrated
Curran & Seaton
Companies need to minimise risk and maximise audiences to be successful. Be horizontal or vertical integrated
Media industries are all about profit and power. CONCENTRSATED OWNERSHIP = lack of choice, same product. INDEPENDENT DIVERSE OWNERSHIP = more choice, creativity
Technology has made regulations difficult. Powerful companies can avoid regulations because of their power. REGULATIONS = rules / control
Livingstone & Lunt
Companies need to minimise risk and maximise audiences to be successful. Be horizontal or vertical integrated
Media industries are all about profit and power. CONCENTRSATED OWNERSHIP = lack of choice, same product. INDEPENDENT DIVERSE OWNERSHIP = more choice, creativity
Technology has made regulations difficult. Powerful companies can avoid regulations because of their power. REGULATIONS = rules / control
Henry Jenkins
Audiences are more active, wanting to interact with the media. Technology has changed our expectations and behaviours. Audiences like to ‘speak back’ to producers
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
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
People (particular young) would copy behaviours see from media products. Does watching violent films make us violent
George Gerbner
Media tends to repeat representations of people over and over again. This cultivation effect can change the dominant ideologies of society
Audiences are more active, wanting to interact with the media. Technology has changed our expectations and behaviours. Audiences like to ‘speak back’ to producers
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
People (particular young) would copy behaviours see from media products. Does watching violent films make us violent
Stuart Hall-
Media tends to repeat representations of people over and over again. This cultivation effect can change the dominant ideologies of society
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
Audiences are more active, wanting to interact with the media. Technology has changed our expectations and behaviours. Audiences like to ‘speak back’ to producers
People (particular young) would copy behaviours see from media products. Does watching violent films make us violent
Albert Bandura
Audiences are more active, wanting to interact with the media. Technology has changed our expectations and behaviours. Audiences like to ‘speak back’ to producers
Media tends to repeat representations of people over and over again. This cultivation effect can change the dominant ideologies of society
People (particular young) would copy behaviours see from media products. Does watching violent films make us violent
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
Clay Shirky
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
People (particular young) would copy behaviours see from media products. Does watching violent films make us violent
Media tends to repeat representations of people over and over again. This cultivation effect can change the dominant ideologies of society
Audiences are more active, wanting to interact with the media. Technology has changed our expectations and behaviours. Audiences like to ‘speak back’ to producers
