Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Black Lives Matter, Counterhegemony, Stereotype
27 Oct 2017
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Mit 1020 wk 3 lecture cultural studies- texts signs and race. Kaepernick kneeling for national anthem: relation to black lives matter. Cultural studies: stuart hall, centre for contemporary cultural studies, university birmingham, uk in the 1970s, from high culture to popular culture, media as texts , representations of the world. Ideology and hegemony: ideology: the way those with power represent the world. !1: hegemony: social power exercised not just by force but through a taken for granted. Common sense view of the world- the way things are": counter-hegemony: struggles against this taken-for-granted world view. Where did these ideas come from : ideas arise out of everyday lives and circumstances. Struggle over stereotypes, stories, and signs: stereotypes: are black men dangerous predators ? are the police forces of justice, stories: what is the narrative of blm movement: criminal violence or. Stupid, comic, irresponsible, hyper sexualized, violent, absent, lazy. Signs: hands up don"t shoot, i cant breathe, closed st held up.
