MIT 1050A/B Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Political Economy, Cultural Studies, Capitalism

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 1050A/B
• Professor: Paul Benedetti

Document Summary

Caitlyn jenner on vanity fair making transgender identities more publically acceptable, showing support for transgender people who have yet to accept themselves: ex. Edward snorton? (us and information publishers spying: media are an instrument of power (we need to study media ourselves in order to have some sort of control over it) Three ways of watching zombies (three ways/approaches to think about media) (genres of media) Example to show the 3 genres: the walking dead. Dead, dawn of the dead etc: 2000s more film, video games, graphic novel, tv with digital distribution. Print is abstract, it is linear and ordinary and highly connected to rationalist, scientific community. Print is good for complex descriptions of characters, people with deep, inner lives. They do not have articulate personalities that books/novels are normally associated with. The reason that zombies have done so well in electronic and digital media is because these are high-paced media forms that work primarily through images and pictures.