Neologism

Political Theory Term Paper “Islamophobia in Movies” Submitted to: Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Department of International Relations By: Aditya Prakash Arya (M.A International Relations) South Asian University Introduction Phobia, as Oxford dictionary defines it, is an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something. Being phobic just adds to negativity towards a particular thing or a group. It is just the ignorance that leads a person to remain phobic and…

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the meme as an element of a Culture (taken here in the sense of civilization) can be regarded as transmitted by nongenetic means, especially through imitation. The term meme was first proposed by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene and comes from an association between gene and mimesis. Dawkins also points to a close kinship with the French word same. Memes were presented by Dawkins as replicators, comparable in this respect to genes, but responsible for the…

It is certainly not my intention to elaborate in great detail what mainstream media is, how they work, which effects they have, et cetera. Following Chomsky (1997) in ‘What makes mainstream media mainstream’ I define mainstream media as the media that are distributed through the largest distribution channels causing them to represent what the majority of media consumers are likely to encounter. It is vital to acknowledge that these mass or mainstream media do not operate in a vacuum but interact…