Media Studies

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TEXT

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A final product we use/read/watch

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PLATFORM

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a format that a media text is produced in.

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INSTITUTIONS

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WHAT MAKES TV/Magazine/Big industries

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TECHNOLOGY

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Equipment made and used to make and access media Phones/TV/Camera

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CONSUMPTION

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How we take the text in.

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DENOTATION

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What you can see.

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CONNOTATION

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What does it mean.

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SEMIOTICS

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Language of signs.

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CONVERGENCE

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Email on a newspaper.

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POLYSEMIC

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Can be interpreted in more than one way.

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TOKENISM

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Putting a black person in a white person cast.

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COMPOSITION

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How a shot is created.

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MASS

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A large audience.

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NICHE

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A small audience.

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ACTIVE AUDIENCE

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Don't believe what they are told and question it.

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PASSIVE AUDIENCE

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They will go along with whatever they are told.

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DESENSITIZATION

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Feeling less influenced. Violent actions become less effective. People are becoming less bothered by the violence as we see it so much.

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CATHARSIS

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Build up of emotions which are then released.

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STEREOTYPES

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A common set of ideals which an audience can use to see what type of person someone is SAID to be.

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COUNTER-TYPES

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When he person being stereotyped gos against those common set of ideals which makes the audience question their knowledge of that stereotype.

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ETHNICITY

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belonging to a group of people such as Africans/Americans/English people.

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RACE

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Black or white.

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NATIONAL IDENTITY

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Different countries(different areas of the country)

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ISSUES

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Big in society/ongoing issues/(body image/mental health)

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ANCHORAGE

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fixed meaning to am image.

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MEDIATION

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The process which a text has gone through before it is consumed by an audience.

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VERISIMILITUDE

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Believability of a text- the extent to which a narrative appears realistic.

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IDEOLOGIES

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A word view/system of values/belief system to which a society holds to be true and how society should function.

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DOMINANT IDEOLOGIES

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Keeps society stable and stops people from the rebellion.

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CONSUMERISM

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We are happy if we are consuming.

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GENDER

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Refers to the socially constructed roles/behavior/activities and attributes that a given society sees as appropriate for men and woman. transgender should be a part of this too.