A2 Comms and Culture
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- A2 Comms and Culture
- AS CONCEPTS
- Communication
- Culture
- Context
- Code
- Identity
- Representation
- Power
- control and influence over people and their actions (propaganda and hegemony)
- Value
- A2 CONCEPTS
- Technology
- all the things we are surrounded by daily
- 'technological determination' -means that the developments are a primary source of social change and cultural perception.
- all the things we are surrounded by daily
- Ideology
- the dominant belief of the ruling party (bourgeoisie)
- Modes Of Address
- describes the way that a text 'speaks' to its audience
- Narrative
- in the ways that meanings can be constructed as stories
- Discourse
- a type of lanugae used by a specific group or in a certain context
- Technology
- THEORIES
- Market Liberalism
- Free Markets, Free trade, Laissez-faire
- Feminism
- Marxism
- Queer Theory
- Post-Colonialism
- Structuralism/Post-Structuralism
- Market Liberalism
- KEY TERMS
- Semiotics
- Techno-culture
- Convergence
- 'Culture industries'
- Communism
- Base/Superstructure model
- Dialectic
- False consciousness
- elitism
- economic determinism
- hegemony
- Pseudo-Individualism
- proletariat/bourgeoisie
- binary oppositions
- male-gaze
- cultural relativism
- polysemy
- the capacity for a sign, or signs to have multiple meanings or a large semantic field. This is a pivotal concept within social sciences, such as media studies and linguistics.
- Deconstruction
- dialogism
- bricolage
- a term used in several disciplines to refer to the construction or creation of a work from a wide range of things which happen to be available or a work created by such a process.
- Cultural Appropriation
- cultural implosion
- depthlessness
- post-modernist Fred Jameson talks about a 'new depthlessness which finds its prolongation in contemporary and in new culture of the image'
- globalisation
- Hyperreality
- Intertextuality
- Metanarratives
- Parody
- Pastiche
- 'Post modern' irony
- simulacrum
- likeness/similarity
- Simulation
- Biological determinism
- Diaspora
- Essentialism
- Ethno-centrism
- Hybridity
- Imagined communities
- Imperialism
- Liminality
- Marginalisation
- Multiculturalism
- Orientalism
- Otherness
- Subaltern classes
- Tokenism
- SITES OF CULTURE
- SPACES AND PLACES
- refers to the constructed environment which is any environment that ha meanings constructed in a cultural context
- Melbourne - expectancy of familiarity which was disappointing
- Amsterdam, Paris, Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland
- Minimalism/ Art Deco/ Art Nouveau
- spatiality
- FICTIONS
- Diegesis
- Todorov - Equilibrium Theory
- He suggested that conventional narratives are structured in five stages: - state of equilibrium at the onset - disruption of the equilibrium by action -m recognition that there has been a disruption - attempt to repair - new equilibrium
- Propp - Character Archetypes
- distinctive character types and actions in all fictions
- The Villain
- The Helper
- The Princess
- The Dispatcher
- Make s the lack known and sends the hero off
- The Donor
- Prepares the heros and gives him/her a magical object
- The False Hero
- Takes credit for the hero's actions
- The Hero
- distinctive character types and actions in all fictions
- Strauss - Binary Opposites
- He recognised that most stories were developed by an opposite and difference in ideas causing a disruption
- e.g. Heaven/Hell, Good/Evil, Life/Death, Rich/Poor
- He recognised that most stories were developed by an opposite and difference in ideas causing a disruption
- Barthes - Codes
- The Somatic Code
- The connotations of signs within a narrative - a descriptive code
- The Enigma Code
- the way tension is built up and the audience is left guessing what happens next.
- The Somatic Code
- OBJECTS OF DESIRE
- Consumerism/Materialism
- Thorstein Veblen - Conspicious Consumption
- Practice of purchasing personal products for the attention and feedback of others meaning social status, and prestige is increased
- Edward Bernays
- TORCHES OF FREEDOM CAMPAIGN
- Michel de Certeau
- Consumers are not simply slaves to their subconscious
- Consumer Savviness
- Consumer Appropriation
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Frankfurt School
- John Fiske
- 'shopping malls are the opium of the people'
- shopping experience akin to religious experience
- it has mystic and sacred qualities that heal feelings of anguish and alienation
- shopping experience akin to religious experience
- 'shopping malls are the opium of the people'
- SPACES AND PLACES
- AS THEORISTS
- Matthew Arnold
- Erving Goffman
- Roger's Concentric Circle Model
- Johari Window
- Basil Bernstein
- Frankie and Queenie Leavis
- A2 THEORISTS
- MARXIST THEORISTS
- FEMINIST THEORISTS
- POST-MODERN/MODERNIST THEORISTS
- POST-COLONIALIST THEORISTS
- STRUCTURALIST/POST-STRUCTURALIST THEORISTS
- AS CONCEPTS
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