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Livingstone + Lunt

Underlying struggle in regulation to protect citizens from potentially harmful content.


Increasing power in corporations and technology make this tough

Regulation

Bell Hooks

Feminism is a political struggle to end patriarchal domination


Other factors effect and exemplify this including race and class

Feminist Theory

Curran + Seaton

If we had more of a variety of media companies we would have a wider variety and more varied range of media texts

Power and Industries

David Gauntlett

We use the internet and other media texts to help create and mould out own identities.


There’s more of a variety of representations to identify with in the modern day.

Theory of Identity

David Hesmondhalgh

Industry uses tried and tested strategies to appeal to us on a wide scale.


However, we should be concerned one a small number of companies hold a vast amount of power

Cultural Industries

Lisbet Van Zoonen

Men and women presented differently in media causing fluctuation and unequal representation.


Women are objectified as a result of western culture.

Feminist theory

Judith Butler

Gender is a social construct. ideologies and outlook of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ are created through repeated images within a society and the media.

Gender Performativity

Paul Gilroy

Even though we no longer have colonies, the representation of these groups are still affected by what time in which it took place.

Ethnicity + Postcolonialism

Stuart Hall

Media language is often used to create representations. Stereotyping is often used by groups in order to assert power or dominance over another.

Representation

Stuart Hall

Producers want audiences to respond in a particular way. Some audiences will interpret it in the way the producer wanted. Others do the opposite and reject the producers desired meaning. Some sit on the fence and understand the desired meaning but adapts it to their own beliefs.

Reception Theory

Henry Jenkins

Internet has allowed fans to gather and create their own texts and easily share their work.


Instead of consuming texts, audiences are now active participants in creating them.

Fandom Theory

George Gerbner

The more we see the same representations and messages the more inclined we are to believe they’re true

Cultivation Theory

Clay Shirky

It’s believed we’re now more likely to use the internet and other digital technologies to respond to media texts. This includes creating our own responses to texts

“End of audience”

Albert Bandura

If an audience sees aggressive behaviour within a media text they’re more inclined to mimic them

Effects Debate

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Texts can be understood through an examination of their underlying structure. This can be investigated through its use of binary opposites or pairs within a text

Structuralism

Jean Baudrillard

Lines between created texts and reality are becoming blurred.


Perfection in media images appear ‘real’ despite being edited and altered

Postmodernism

Roland Barthes

The elements of a media text are codes that need to be read.


They can be understood as the thing they are (denotated level) and the responses they create (connotated level)

Semiotics

Steve Neale

Genre is recognisable but does change over a period of time or borrow from other genres. Occasionally genres may be hybrids of two pre-existing genres. Genre helps market texts.

Genre Theory

Tzvetan Todorov

Narratives follow a conventional patter of structure.


The beginning brings an equilibrium


Followed by a disruption


And a final new equilibrium

Narrative Theory