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Media Theory Revision Quiz
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The construction in any medium (especially the mass media) of aspects of ‘reality’ such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and other abstract concepts.

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The process through which the mass media construct messages and the audiences in their turn receive and reconstruct the meaning.

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Where we inhabit - things like our surroundings, family, friends, school, work, neighbourhood and so on which help to shape our individual identities.

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A theory developed by Blumler and Katz which discusses how users proactively search for media that will not only meet a given need but enhance knowledge, social interactions and diversion .

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The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture.

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A theory which states that Western nations dominate the media around the world which in return has a powerful effect on Third World Cultures by imposing on them Western views thereby diminishing their native cultures.

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The dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others.

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An intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and the end of sexism in all forms.

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The legacy of the era of European, and sometimes American, direct global domination, which ended roughly in the mid-20th century, and the residual political, socio-economic, and psychological effects of that colonial history.

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An economic and socio-political world view and method of socio-economic inquiry that centres upon a materialism, routes to social change and offers a critique of the development of capitalism.

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Qualities assigned to groups of people related to their race, nationality and sexual orientation, etc. - A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

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A character theory for studying media texts and productions, which indicates that there were 7 broad character types, the result of the author’s analysis of 100 tales.

– The villain (struggles against the hero)– The donor(prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object)– The (magical) helper (helps the hero in the quest)– The princess (person the hero marries, often sought for during the narrative)– Her father– The dispatcher (character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off)– The hero or victim/seeker hero, reacts to the donor, weds the princess

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A Marxist theory that people are unable to see things, especially exploitation, oppression, and social relations, as they really are.

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A concept used for “analysing visual culture… that deals with how an audience views the people presented.”

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In Marxist terms, the ruling classes who have the money, power and influence.

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A theory which suggests that stories begin with an equilibrium or status quo where any potentially opposing forces are in balance. This is disrupted by some event, setting in chain a series of events. Problems are solved so that order can be restored to the world of the fiction.

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The circumstance where the most powerful roles in most sectors of society are held predominantly by men, and the least powerful roles are held predominantly by women.

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The increase in feminist activity which occurred in America, Britain, and Europe from the late sixties onwards.

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The system by which, in language and thought, two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another.

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A society, as our own, where there is a belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights and where there is valuing and acknowledgment of diversity.

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The construction in any medium (especially the mass media) of aspects of ‘reality’ such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and other abstract concepts.

REPRESENTATION

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The process through which the mass media construct messages and the audiences in their turn receive and reconstruct the meaning.

MEDIATION

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Where we inhabit - things like our surroundings, family, friends, school, work, neighbourhood and so on which help to shape our individual identities.

SITUATED CULTURE

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A theory developed by Blumler and Katz which discusses how users proactively search for media that will not only meet a given need but enhance knowledge, social interactions and diversion .

USES AND GRATIFICATIONS THEORY

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The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture.

IDEOLOGY

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A theory which states that Western nations dominate the media around the world which in return has a powerful effect on Third World Cultures by imposing on them Western views thereby diminishing their native cultures.

CULTURAL IMPERIALISM

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The dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others.

HEGEMONY

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An intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and the end of sexism in all forms.

FEMINISM

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The legacy of the era of European, and sometimes American, direct global domination, which ended roughly in the mid-20th century, and the residual political, socio-economic, and psychological effects of that colonial history.

POST COLONIALISM

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An economic and socio-political world view and method of socio-economic inquiry that centres upon a materialism, routes to social change and offers a critique of the development of capitalism.

MARXISM

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Qualities assigned to groups of people related to their race, nationality and sexual orientation, etc. - A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

STEREOTYPES

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A character theory for studying media texts and productions, which indicates that there were 7 broad character types, the result of the author’s analysis of 100 tales. – The villain (struggles against the hero)– The donor(prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object)– The (magical) helper (helps the hero in the quest)– The princess (person the hero marries, often sought for during the narrative)– Her father– The dispatcher (character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off)– The hero or victim/seeker hero, reacts to the donor, weds the princess

PROPP’S THEORY

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A Marxist theory that people are unable to see things, especially exploitation, oppression, and social relations, as they really are.

FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS

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A concept used for “analysing visual culture… that deals with how an audience views the people presented.”

GAZE THEORY

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In Marxist terms, the ruling classes who have the money, power and influence.

BOURGEOISIE

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A theory which suggests that stories begin with an equilibrium or status quo where any potentially opposing forces are in balance. This is disrupted by some event, setting in chain a series of events. Problems are solved so that order can be restored to the world of the fiction.

TODOROV’S THEORY

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The circumstance where the most powerful roles in most sectors of society are held predominantly by men, and the least powerful roles are held predominantly by women.

PATRIACHY

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The increase in feminist activity which occurred in America, Britain, and Europe from the late sixties onwards.

SECOND WAVE FEMINISM

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The system by which, in language and thought, two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another.

BINARY OPPOSITION

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A society, as our own, where there is a belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights and where there is valuing and acknowledgment of diversity.

LIBERAL PLURALISM/LIBERAL PLURALIST


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