Across
- 1. – Encodes meaning into words and characters.
- 4. – Contemporary adaptations that combine texts, sometimes across media, sometimes not, to create something new.
- 6. – An interdisciplinary scholarly discipline that focuses its attention on the ways in which disability has been defined, how disability has been represented in various media, and its consequences for individuals characterized as or who identify as disabled.
- 7. – A way of expressing how material practices and objects reflect and participate in reinforcing ideological beliefs.
- 9. – A thesis on how pop culture is essentially a factory pumping out standardized products such as movies, magazines, music, and so on.
- 11. – Different ways in which a message is communicated.
- 13. – Words or images on a sign that resemble the thing they represent.
- 16. – To decode the work as intended by its creator…tends to be respectful, although sometimes playful.
- 17. – A sign at the beach with a shark fin.
- 18. – An approach to culture that focuses on systemic racism, the ways in which racisms is deeply entrenched in contemporary social structures.
- 20. – Members of this group explored social conditions that facilitated and reinforced oppression, and theorized changes that might permit the emergence of a more egalitarian culture.
- 22. – The things that people make and do that convey meaning in a particular time and place.
- 25. – An important idea or motif in a work of art
- 31. – Making a decision putting it into action, seeing it come to fruition.
- 34. – Category of related signs.
- 37. – The recipient understands the message but rejects it.
- 39. – Little units of meaning
- 41. – Groups such as skaters, punks, goths, and bikers with values and norms that differentiate them from the larger culture.
- 42. – Traditional cultural norms of masculinity that are harmful to men, women, and society.
- 44. – Different theoretical or intellectual ideologies that can be applied to critical research.
- 45. – A list of works accepted as being of the highest quality, and what fans agree actually happened in a source text.
- 47. – A theory about the forces that shape how cultures develop and where they are headed.
- 48. – Communication happens when a message is sent and received
- 50. – A French philosopher who came up with repressive state apparatuses (RSAs) and Ideological state apparatuses (ISAs).
- 53. – Own the means of production and purchase the labor power of others, and the workers.
- 54. – The concept being expressed.
- 55. – The ways in which consumers of media interact with one another discussing the media they’ve consumed and collectively arriving at shared understandings.
- 56. – The process of adapting content presented in one medium into others.
- 57. – A mixture of acceptance and rejection. The message is understood, but not fully taken up.
- 58. – Include schools, religious institutions, the media, social clubs, and organizations that influence how we think by naturalizing particular economic and social formations.
Down
- 2. – A kind of semiotic code translating to honesty or sincerity of expression when it comes to identity, artistry, and even, bizarrely, to marketing.
- 3. – Pleasure in creating negativity.
- 5. – The way in which a particular concept is expressed.
- 8. – The idea that forms of social stratification such as race, class, sexual orientation, age, disability, and gender do not exist separately but are interwoven together.
- 9. – Associations attached to the sign that come from our culture and our personal experience.
- 10. – The resources a member of a subculture possesses that afford that person status within the subculture.
- 12. – Those who own the means of production and profit off the labor of others seek to maintain that structure because it works to their advantage.
- 14. – A branch of gender and sexuality studies that emphasizes the social construction and maintenance of ideas of normalcy and deviancy.
- 15. – The practice of alternating between two or more languages or language variants in conversation.
- 19. – New versions of an older text.
- 21. – To reference it or call it to mind without mentioning it explicitly.
- 23. – Seeks to understand the nature of gender inequality through a focus on the social roles played by woman in relationship to men, how they have developed, and the forces that maintain them.
- 24. – The study of signs.
- 26. – Part of a group you gravitate towards to.
- 27. – The study of signifying systems, rule governed systems of meaning production.
- 28. – The adoption of the practices or customs of one group by members of another.
- 29. – The police, the national guard, the military, the courts, the government. Which work to maintain the existing social order.
- 30. – Do not own the means of production and are forced to sell their labor power.
- 32. – Power and Privilege. The ways a dominant group secures the consent of subordinate groups by making the ruling class’s values and beliefs the norm for that society.
- 33. – The economic organization of a society influences everything else in that society and shapes the way people think.
- 35. – The message is interpreted in the way it was intended.
- 36. – The relationship between signifier and signified is arbitrary. Meaning must be learned to understand the sign.
- 38. – Came up with the concept of structure of feeling
- 40. – A work that imitates another, often exaggerating certain notable features, for the purpose of making fun or commenting on the source text.
- 41. – Shared generational experiences and common values shape subjective experience.
- 43. – Interprets the subtext of the message.
- 46. – Associated with the Frankfurt School, and helped develop a thesis that is referred to as “The culture industry”.
- 49. – A test in movies to see if two women in a film have names, if the women in the film speak to each other, and if the conversation is about something other than a man.
- 51. – A large and fracturing change to a point of view.
- 52. – Dictionary definition meaning of a sign, its most basic or literal meaning.