Media Theories 1

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Audience – media implants ideas into the audience. They then learn attitudes, behaviours and emotional responses through modelling.
Bandura
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Cultivation theory – If we see the same thing over and over we will believe it to be true.
Gerbner
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Reception theory – Audience will decode in 3 different ways. Preferred (how the producers want the audience to decode), Oppositional 9opposite way that producers want them to decode) and Negotiated (question some of the messages)
Stuart Hall
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Participatory culture – The internet has allowed fans to create their own texts, sharing their work instead of just consuming the texts (fanfiction, edits)
Henry Jenkins
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End of Audience – Audiences are now more likely to use the internet and other technologies to respond to texts including creating their own (fanfiction,edits)
Clay Shirky
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Media is controlled by a few big powerful companies driven by profit. This limits variety, quality and creativity.
Curran and Seaton
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Cultural Industries – Companies try to minimise risk by using tried and tested strategies to appeal to us.
David Hesmondhalgh
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Semiotics – Media texts can be understood through denotation (literal meaning) or connotation (underlying meaning).
Barthes
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Semiotics – The boundary between what’s real and what isn’t real is becoming blurred. We see images that aren’t real but we see them as being more real than real (hyper-reality)
Jean Baudrillard
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Cultivation theory – If we see the same thing over and over we will believe it to be true.

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Gerbner

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Reception theory – Audience will decode in 3 different ways. Preferred (how the producers want the audience to decode), Oppositional 9opposite way that producers want them to decode) and Negotiated (question some of the messages)

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Participatory culture – The internet has allowed fans to create their own texts, sharing their work instead of just consuming the texts (fanfiction, edits)

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End of Audience – Audiences are now more likely to use the internet and other technologies to respond to texts including creating their own (fanfiction,edits)

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