exam cross word puzzle
Across
- 2. the most basic or literal meaning of a sign
- 7. a group that differentiates itself within a broader culture
- 8. the idea that certain culural norms associated with being masculine have been harmful to society
- 10. anything that can be bought and sold
- 11. an indirect reference to something
- 12. the ideas, beliefs, and principles that structure a particular world view
- 14. a way of expressing how material practices/objects reflect in reinforcing idealogical beleifs
- 15. an economic system where the means of production are collectively owned
- 16. an interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on the consequences of disability
- 17. the way a text refers to itself or a the conventions of its genre
- 20. the process of transforming something into comodity
- 23. the decoding of a message as intended and adoption of the intended attitude
- 28. an adjective describing something made in a traditional/non-mechanical way
- 31. the things that people make and do that convey meaning during a particular time/place
- 32. the specific thing that a sign gestures towards
- 35. signifiers connected by proximity
- 36. one of the first models to recognize that media consumers are active participants in the process, both in what people choose to consume and how they react to it.
- 38. an interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on race, ethnicity, and indigeneity
- 40. the study of signifying systems
- 43. the way a specific concept/idea is exspressed
- 44. a concept or idea
- 45. the practice of dressing up as a character
- 47. an appraoch to studies that emphasizes the maintenance of normalcy (in relation to gender/sexuality)
- 48. a theory that focuses on the social roles played by women in relation to men
- 52. rule-governed systems of meaning production
- 54. n interdisciplinary field of study that explores the influence of colonialism and its aftermath
- 55. the idea that forms of social stratification do not exist separate but are woven together
- 56. this is the first theory to consider the medium through which the message is transmitted
- 57. the social class (from marxist theory) that owns most of society's wealth
Down
- 1. a signs secondary, culturally specific relations or associations
- 3. a list of works accepted as being the highest quality
- 4. the cutting edge of a particular medium
- 5. an important idea or motif in a work of art
- 6. the process of adapting content into one media to another
- 9. the ways dominant groups defuse resistance (hegemony theory)
- 10. an economic mode of production (privately owned rather than collectively owned)
- 13. the material practices of the upper class within a given culture
- 18. a theory that focuses on social class and class strugle
- 19. the traditional practices of a specific geographical region
- 21. the working class (from marxist theory)
- 22. was refined in the 1940s and conceptualized through the process of a phone call
- 24. a study that traces the evolution or development of of something across a period of time
- 25. an interdisciplinary field of study that focuses on society
- 26. having multiple meanings
- 27. a category of related signs
- 29. a new version of an older text
- 30. the existing social structures and state of affairs
- 33. this concept examines the ways that different stories are told
- 34. material written for the general public
- 37. psychological needs to be creative, independant, and autonomous
- 39. a word or expression used in a figurative or metaphorical sense
- 41. this theory approaches media from the position that content is plunged in a specifically directed stream to an "open vessel" audience in a single stream
- 42. a consequence of being deprived of the world
- 46. a work of art that intimates another work/artist
- 49. a dismissive way to refer to the material practices of the lower class
- 50. the process of packaging a message to send to a recipient
- 51. This model accounts for how people seek out emotional fulfillment from the media they watch.
- 53. the way a dominant group secures the consent of subordinate groups (by making rules)
- 56. a process where history is presented as nature