COMS 3109- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 30 pages long!)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 3109
• Professor: Miranda Brady

Document Summary

Lecture one intro to coms & identity: identity is an amorphous1, broad, modern topic. Key concepts: discourse: foucault (1972) describes in the following ways: Instead of gradually reducing the rather fluctuating meaning of the word discourse", A picture of the pumpkin is like a shitty version of the real thing: images masks the absence of a profound reality, the cake pumpkin was a lie, the image has lost all connection to reality. Pepsi ad: temporary attachments to forward social change (see: stuart hall) Identity politics weren"t fighting the system, or even subverting it. Key concepts: identity politics: use of essentialized identity categories, generally by traditionally marginalized groups, hall describes as a temporary attachment , may be evoked as a resource , spivak: strategic essentialism. Confession as a technique of the self: therapeutic. Idea that publicly disclosing/being open about these things will make you feel better: partly strategic.