J 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Cocktail Party, Breitbart News, Semiotics
12 Feb 2018
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Critical theory: gives us tools to understand the world around us beyond a superficial level. Discourse: the system of ideas that inform the rules, procedures, and practices of society and its institutions. First building block that we are gonna grow. The people inside these things are also creating discourse. So is the discourse about the game. Ideology: a framework of ideas upon which people make decisions, act, and understand the world. Meaning : 3 ways to understand it not change. Languages have fixed meanings. came up with semiotics . We are socialized in a prison-house of language. Signifier : something we receiver with our senses. Signification process = see the word cat. Sometimes it isn"t obvious what the signifier. Ideological state apparatuses (isas): uses discourse to. Ideological state apparatuses (isas) deliver ideology to us. Position us/put us in a position with fixed meaning and cultural positions through discourse .
