CMST 3K03 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Video Game Industry, Denis Mcquail, Culture Industry

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 3K03
• Professor: Dale Shin

Document Summary

In this course, spectator, reader, viewer, audience are used interchangeably. All terms describing subjects of mass media. Films, television, popular music, newspapers, video games, comic books: popular cultural texts that have become the sights or objects that audience collects. Audience all media (esp. audio and televisual media) Reader literature, newspapers, magazines, other print media. All these terms refer to subject who is intended and interpellated to consume the media in question. User new or digital media (esp. internet) Reception studies is the academic and professional discipline that emerged to name and understand these audiences and their relationships to media. In a broader, looser sense, we can observe a lecture dale shin observes how we are restless, engaged to an extent, and make sense/form of reception of his lecture. Literary and philosophical criticism sought to make sense of how listeners and readers make sense of various kinds of oral and written communication, e. g. rhetoric and persuasion.