MDSA02H3 Chapter Notes -Doxa, Participatory Media, Liminality

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Closed text a text that is structured to elicit a particular, usually singular, response from audiences. Cruising the interpretive practice of reading with one"s body. Cultural production the generation of semiotic, enunciative, and textual materials related to a specific media artifact by fans of that artifact. Fandom organized communities or subcultures comprised of persons who share a special affinity for or attachment to a media text, which they, in turn, express through their participation in communal practices (fan fiction, etc. ) and events (conventions). Interpretive play an improvisational mode of feeling that ignores dominant interpretive codes in favour of pursuing immediate bodily pleasures. Jouissance a radically disruptive pleasure; an elusive and ecstatic pleasure that destabilizes culture/subjectivity. Media erotics an approach that explores the array of resistive pleasures that audiences derive from media by examining the various sensuous, creative, and transgressive ways in which persons use and experience media.

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Please read the following article from last yearâs Economist magazine about antibiotic resistance and the development (or should I say, rediscovery) of non-anti-biotic methods of dealing with it.

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21633796-new-way-fight-bacterial-infections-making-resistance-futile

(a) The article says that each year 23,000 deaths are caused by antibiotic resistance in the United States. Please do some basic research and tell us how âseriousâ this problem seems to be at least as compared to the number of deaths caused by other factors? For your âpleasureâ you may also want to think about how many of the deaths that you examine are seemed to be caused by known environmental factors as compared to other factors.

(b) In the article, we learn that the Department of Health and Human Services is establishing a prize of $20 million payable to the person/entity that comes up with a rapid diagnostic test for the presence of antibiotic resistant bacteria. If the concern about such bacteria is that their spread would kill people, then comment on the benefits of this prize-based approach to the problem and then comment on the problems with this particular way of using prizes as compared to offering prizes for something else. (note that there is also a new literature emerging discussing the problems with all prized-based approaches, so please do not interpret this question as an absolute sanction of prizes)

(c) Suppose the antibody approach described in the article is successful. Describe what the existence of these antibody therapies does to the âexternalityâ created by overuse of antibiotics and describe how this solution comports with the conventional wisdom about who is responsible for âsolvingâ externalities problems.

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Even though they have been doing it all their lives, people need to study communication simply because it is so complex. As stated in chapter 3 of the book, we all perceive things differently and "perception and communication influence each other, perception shapes our understanding of others' communication and the choices we make in our own communication" (pg. 41). For the reason that the choices we make and the ways that we view things/situations are changing everyday, communication between two individuals also changes and becomes more complex. Though we can communicate in general, how we communicate and what we communicate depends on how we perceive the world around us, making communication not as simple as it seems. As humans, we create broad categories of things (prototypes) and place people into them (Wood pg. 43). We then go on to create a more detailed assessment (a personal construct) where we measure a person or situation with a certain dimension of judgment (Wood pg. 43). We also place people and situations into stereotypes by making predictive generalizations or simply predicting what the personal/situation will be like or what will happen (Wood pg. 43). With all of these components to a basic path of communicating with others, it's hard to not see why we would study our complex underlying system of human communication. Not only do we make assumptions, but we base our thoughts/actions off of those assumptions which can then all be interpreted differently among various individuals. We study communication to try and dissect all of these interpretations and perceptions of others "to make sense of experience and to predict how we and others will act" (Wood pg. 45). Sometimes we follow a script or just simply act a specific way in a specific situation (like greeting someone and telling them your name) (Wood pg. 45). However, not everyone follows these scripts which just adds to the complexity of communication between us all.

To complete the scenario section of the final, choose a scenario and paste it where indicated below. You may delete the other scenarios from the body of the exam. Answer the questions regarding the study you designed, giving the answers following each of the questions. If one of the questions isnât applicable to your study, respond N/A after the question. Any additional information about the study youâve designed can be added at the end of the required questions and will likely generate some extra points.

Design an epidemiological study for only ONE of the 6 scenarios below and provide at minimum the following information about your study:

Scenario 1: A new vaccine (NoBola) has been developed to prevent Ebola. Design a study that will indicate whether or not NoBola is associated with a reduction in Ebola cases in parts of the world where Ebola is endemic.

Please answer the above questions

1â¢ Describe how you will recruit or identify study participants to best represent the target population

2â¢ Describe the risks and benefits of participating in the study

3â¢ Provide a case definition (e.g. in a cohort study, how will you diagnose those who become ill, in a case-control or cross-sectional study, what characteristics does the participant need to have to be considered a case)

4â¢ Describe exposures or risk factors and how you will measure them

5â¢ Describe exclusion criteria (e.g. in a prospective cohort study, a person who tests positive for illness at or near baseline must be excluded)

6â¢ Describe how you will collect data for your study (survey, medical records, laboratory tests, etc.)

7â¢ Divide subjects as appropriate for your study design (i.e. exposed/unexposed, case/control)

8â¢ Describe outcome measure for study, how itâs calculated, and how itâs to be interpreted (you donât need to actually do calculations, but provide the equations and give an example of how theyâre interpreted): For example: RR=a/(a+b) interpreted as the risk of lung cancer in smokers is X times greater (or less) than it is in non-smokers

9â¢ Give justification for your study design (tell why you chose that particular study design, why it is appropriate, and what you hoped to learn from doing the study)

10â¢ Brief discussion of study strengths and weaknesses including a discussion of causal hypotheses and biases as they relate to your study design

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