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978-1118553978 Chapter 1
1 Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 1) 1. Introducing Critical Media Studies How Do We Know? Somatically Symbolically Medium Categorizing Mass Media? Print media Motion pictures and sound recording Broadcast media New media Living in […]
978-1118553978 Chapter 10
Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 10) 10. Reception Analysis Reception Theory: An Overview The Traditional View Hypodermic Needle Model Two-Step Flow Cultivation Analysis Uses and Gratifications Revised View: Active Audience Hypothesis Reception Theories Encoding/Decoding Model […]
978-1118553978 Chapter 11
Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 11) 11. Sociological Analysis Sociological Theory: An Overview Symbolic Interactionism Premises (Blumer) Dialectical Tension Agency Structure Dramaturgy (Goffman) Impression Management Performance Stages Setting Part Team Frame Analysis (Goffman) Experience Principles […]
978-1118553978 Chapter 12
Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 12) 12. Erotic Analysis Theories of Pleasure: An Overview Types of Pleasure Plaisir (consumptive) Jouissance (productive) Transgressive Texts Writerly (Open) Texts Intertextuality Parodic Allusion Creative appropriation Self-reflexive reference Polyphony Dialogic […]
978-1118553978 Chapter 13
Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 13) 13. Ecological Analysis Medium Theory: An Overview Medium theory Paradigm shifts Premises Fixed Features Environment Consciousness Medium Theorists Harold Innis Empire Time-biased vs. Space-biased Marshall McLuhan Hot vs. Cool […]
978-1118553978 Chapter 2
Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 2) 2. Marxist Analysis Marxist Theory: An Overview Marxism Method: historical materialism Model: base/superstructure Logic: profit motive Patterns of Media Ownership Concentration: The Big Six Conglomeration Integration Vertical Horizontal Multinationalism […]
978-1118553978 Chapter 3
Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 3) 3. Organizational Analysis Organizational Theory: An Overview Organizations Structure Hierarchy Differentiation and specialization Formalization Process Organizational Culture(s) Communicative practices Performance Narratives Textual Management Technology Characteristics of conventions Motivated Shared […]
978-1118553978 Chapter 4
Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 4) 4. Pragmatic Analysis Pragmatism: An Overview William James Habit John Dewey Meliorism Richard Rorty Ironism Relativism Pragmatic Approach to Media Regulation Consequences and contingencies Issues in regulation Combating monopoly […]
978-1118553978 Chapter 5
1 Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 5) 5. Rhetorical Analysis Rhetorical Theory: An Overview Rhetoric Theories of the Sign Semiology: Ferdinand de Saussure The sign Signifier Signified Characteristics of signs Arbitrary Difference Linear Parole vs. […]
978-1118553978 Chapter 6
1 Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 6) 6. Cultural Analysis Cultural Theory: An Overview Building blocks of culture Artifacts Practices Attitudes Culture: Key traits Collective Rhetorical Historical Ideological Ideology Functions Limits Normalizes Privileges Interpellates Processes […]
978-1118553978 Chapter 7
1 Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 7) 7. Psychoanalytic Analysis Psychoanalytic Theory: An Overview Key concepts Drives The pleasure principle Repression The reality principle The unconscious Dreams Return of the repressed Freudian Development Sexual drive […]
978-1118553978 Chapter 8
1 Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 8) 8. Feminist Analysis Feminist Theory: An Overview Feminism(s) Sexism Sex Gender Essentialism Patriarchy Gender Stereotypes in US Media Masculinity Active Political (public) Logical Sexual subject (the beast myth) […]
978-1118553978 Chapter 9
1 Critical Media Studies: An Introduction (2nd edition) Study Guide (Chapter 9) 9. Queer Analysis Queer Theory: An Overview Queer Sexuality Heteronormativity Homophobia Stigmatization The closet Key queer theorists Michel Foucault Discursive construction Judith Butler Gender performativity Sexual Stereotypes in […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 1
Test Bank Chapter 1: Introduction to Critical Media Studies MATCHING Instructors will need to randomize the order of terms when constructing an exam. 1. medium e. ‘middle’, or that which comes between two things 2. mass media i. technologies that […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 10
Test Bank Chapter 10: Reception Analysis MATCHING 1. polysemy g. many meanings 2. polyvalence j. many values 3. encoding b. the construction of a meaningful message 4. decoding i. deciphering the meaning of a message 5. code d. set of […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 11
Test Bank Chapter 11: Sociological Analysis MATCHING 1. hierarchy h. the social rules we play by 2. agency g. the capacity to exercise free will 3. structure f. any social force that constrains agency MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Which of the […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 12
Test Bank Chapter 12: Erotic Analysis MATCHING 1. jouissance c. pleasure of production 2. plaisir h. pleasure of consumption MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Form, genre, and narrative are examples of what type of pleasure? a. plaisir b. jouissance c. folk humor […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 13
Test Bank Chapter 13: Ecological Analysis MATCHING 1. paradigm shift e. fundamental transformation in how we know the world 2. medium theory d. research tradition concerned with communication technologies MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. According to Harold Innis, stone, clay, and parchment […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 2
Test Bank Chapter 2: Marxist Analysis MATCHING Instructors will need to randomize the order of terms when constructing an exam. 1. base m. underlying economic and material conditions of society 2. superstructure d. the social and cultural institutions that make […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 3
Test Bank Chapter 3: Organizational Analysis MATCHING Instructors will need to randomize the order of terms when constructing an exam. 1. organization j. a system of ordered relationships and coordinated activities 2. professionals m. persons who possess expertise in a […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 4
Test Bank Chapter 4: Pragmatic Analysis MATCHING Instructors will need to randomize the order of terms when constructing an exam. 1. pragmatism k. branch of philosophy that assesses truth in terms of outcome 2. meliorism e. belief in the correction […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 5
MATCHING 1. aesthetics l. the beauty of art and the sensual enjoyment that it engenders 2. affect e. an intensity registered directly by the body 3. cluster k. the way signs are associated and dissociated from one another MULTIPLE CHOICE […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 6
MATCHING 1. assimilation i. the process of “white–washing” (dehistoricizing) ethnic diversity 2. culture f. the artifacts, practices, and beliefs of a particular group 3. difference j. the depiction of others as subordinate but as a source of pleasure MULTIPLE CHOICE […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 7
MATCHING 1. desire g. a yearning for love or recognition that is never fully satisfied 2. drives l. motivating forces created by somatic demands upon the mind MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. 1. Which psychoanalytic concept best accounts for infants pooping in […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 8
MATCHING 1. essentialism f. a belief that cultural distinctions are inherent and universal 2. feminism g. political projects that seek to expose and right gender inequalities 3. gender h. culturally constructed differences between men and women 4. glass ceiling c. […]
978-1118553978 Test Bank Chapter 9
MATCHING 1. camp d. an ironic, theatrical, and humorous sensibility involving gender 2. heteronormativity a. a social system that subordinates queer interests or rights MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. 1. Queer theory views sex as a consequence of which type of performance? […]