COMS 371 Lecture Notes - Calgary Herald, Nationstates, Michel Foucault

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 371
• Professor: Delia Dumitrica

Document Summary

If you"re ever unsure about the case you want to use, run it by delia! She won"t read your draft, but she"ll give great feedback on the ideas you have. Alter a media text from a critical studies perspective. 4 people per group each member is responsible for 1 relevant source. Group formation sheet write down your name under one of the two columns. Tools for analysis provided by semiotics: signs = signifier (form: sound, image) + signified (idea, concept, sign 2 levels of meaning. Connotation = wider meaning, interpretation, relying on cultural codes, ideologies: myth: ideology. Method of analyzing rhetorical strategies of media culture, taking apart the mythologies that colonize social life and helping produce a critical consciousness on behalf of the reader (durham and kellner 2006, p. 92). Reveals the masked ideological components in a produced collection of signs (mcilwan 2007, p. 173). Denotation soldier saluting the (french) flag.