MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Media Studies, Culture Change, Cultural Studies
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Scholars in the strand of media studies seek to understand how media texts shape the way we think about the world as cultural, political, and social beings. Ideologies influence the construction of media texts in relation to two historically relevant social issues in the cultural studies tradition: class and race: cultural theory: an overvirew. Micheal richardson definition of culture: this definition provides a good foundation for understanding culture: that it is constructed, multifaceted, and uniquely human. Objects like artefacts are any of the material aspects of daily life that possess widely shared meanings and manifest group (national, social, political) identification to us. Material, human made object of a culture (b) Attitudes display the overarching ways a particular culture makes sense of the world. The common qualities the define culture: (a) Culture must be shared among a group of people. Society is made of many cultures, people can be part of many.
