COMM 215 Study Guide - Final Guide: Commodity Fetishism, The Birth Of The Clinic, Fetishism
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Final review: media convergence: the coming together of previously separate media through computing and digital technology. Massall in one place: media: the means or technology used for storing and communicating information and other configurations of data and text. Thinking you"re individual but you"re not: metanarratives: narratives that are the basis of what. Frameworks that try to explain the basis of society, economy, etc. in a universal term. Not objective truth, but more about the way we use it: commodity fetishism: mass produced goods that are stripped. Labor is devalued, consumers are ignorant of mode of production. Fetishism is the romanticizing of something: flaneur/flaneuse: person who strolls the city streets observing the urban landscape and moving through it and taking it in, representation, baudrillard: stands in or re-presents date about something that preexists. Something we understand to be real and the source of a copy: stuart hall: the discursive process in which cultural meaning is created.
