COMN 1000- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 12 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 1000
• Professor: Rob Heyen

Document Summary

What is political economy? (see below: commercial media and the audience as commodity, the frankfurt school and the culture industry". Karl marx: power and ideology: political economy: modes and relations of production, power and violence, power and ideas, the nature of ideology: who believes what and how, class and class conflict. Theories of ideology: realist, experiential, social constructionism: louis althusser and social constructionism. Power and meaning: race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, media and the production of meaning. Jiwani: race(ing) the nation: race" vs. racialization", representation and ideologies of race: invisibility; stereotyping; problem people; whitewashing; adornments (exoticism, inferential racism, immigration and moral panics". Boats and borders: narratives of race: gender and islam: rethinking the veil. The complexities of culture": media, race and representation: individuals and social structures. Aliens, vampires and zombies: movie genres and ideology: from war of the worlds to transformers: hollywood, aliens and. America: twilight: vampires, sex and sexuality, monsters of the market: zombies and critiques of ideology.