MEDIAST 10- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 162 pages long!)
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Why study media: media saturate our everything lives and rhythms, pleasure (kill time, social currency, surveillance iv. Interpretation: media evolve over time, technology, genre and storytelling forums iii. Industries and business model: consumption / practices, media serve a commercial function, media in uences and circumstances, fashion, trends, pop culture (eg. Information about local, national, global events: media prompts us to compare ourselves to media representation, present images & instances of normal vs abnormal , ask us to consider where we t in. Goal: elevate people from preferring low are to appreciating high . But: who gets to make the distinctions being between good & bad . Eg: so a coppola makes history as second female director to win at . And: whose tastes get marginalized in trying to protect people from bad media. Eg: parents always want their children to stay away from the sexual and violate ads, medias,etc cause they think those medias are bad for children.
