Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: African Diaspora In The Americas, Mobile Phone, Stereotype
12 Feb 2018
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Cultural studies - texts, signs and race: representation, media as texts, signs, stories, stereotypes, discourse. Why is media important to blm: media - twitter, cell phone videos- were crucial to mobilizing the movement, bias in policing. If they gunned me down video: what pictures would they show of me, respectable? or not. Media as text: signs: texts are made of words, sounds, images, representing the world, stories: signs are organized into sequences, depicting the movement of the world, stories narratives, stereotypes: stories involve characters, people or agents. Signs: signs for justice, line of police in full gear and shields, people who are peaceful are being attacked by police, hands up don"t shoot , asphyxiation, i can"t breathe . Stereotypes: thug = the accepted way of calling black people the n" word . What is common sense: not thugs, but frustrated children, offensive to parents taking care of these children. #oscarssowhite: chris rock - the white people"s choice awards .
