Theorists

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The idea that texts communicate their meanings through a process of signification
Barthes
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The idea that all narratives share a basic structure that involves a movement from one state of equilibrium to another
Todorov
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The idea that genres may be dominated by repetition, but are also marked by difference, variation, and change
Neale
3 of 25
Binary opposites
Levi-Strauss
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The idea that media images have come to seem more ‘real’ than the reality they supposedly represent (hyperreality).
Baudrillard
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The idea that the media is controlled by a small number of companies primarily driven by the logic of profit and power
CurranandSeaton
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The idea that the media provide us with ‘tools’ or resources that we use to construct our identities
Gauntlett
7 of 25
The idea that there is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender
Butler
8 of 25
The idea that the media can implant ideas in the mind of the audience directly
Bandura
9 of 25
Fandom and Participatory culture
Jenkins
10 of 25
The idea that the Internet and digital technologies have had a profound effect on the relations between media and individuals
Shirky
11 of 25
Reception theory (The DON), Audience Readings and gap of meaning
Hall
12 of 25
Moral panics
Cohen
13 of 25
The mass is anonymously and loosely organised
Blumer
14 of 25
Seven spheres of institutions
Alvarado
15 of 25
News values
GaltungandRuge
16 of 25
Lines of appeal
Dyer
17 of 25
Uses and Gratifications
McQuail
18 of 25
Global Village
McLuhan
19 of 25
Male Gaze
Mulvey
20 of 25
Stereotypes are not always negative, they often contain an element of truth
Perkins
21 of 25
Character types
Propp
22 of 25
Pseudo-Events
Boorstin
23 of 25
Female Gaze
GammonandMarshment
24 of 25
Women are oppressed by the pressure to fit into a myth or false ideal of beauty
Wolf
25 of 25

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The idea that all narratives share a basic structure that involves a movement from one state of equilibrium to another

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The idea that genres may be dominated by repetition, but are also marked by difference, variation, and change

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Binary opposites

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The idea that media images have come to seem more ‘real’ than the reality they supposedly represent (hyperreality).

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