Across
- 4. Developed the theory of the audience as a commodity
- 6. Theorist who critiqued the initial framing of participatory culture as it omitted key concerns about democratic participation
- 7. Unlike with community,this forms since the modern internet emphasizes individuality and identity
- 10. The under-representation or absence of a particular social group in media.
- 14. Thought to explain why the crowd is susceptible to violence and aggression
- 16. Believed that capitalism organized the economy to the benefit of the working class
- 17. Replaced the surfs with the move from agrarian society to capitalism
- 18. One of the three key considerations of political economy
- 22. Everything present in the frame
- 24. Economic systems that operate along the logics of privatization, deregulation, and reduced government spending
- 25. The Western classical tradition of art and media which was foregrounded as that which is worthy of academic scrutiny
- 26. In gaming, the power to make decisions over the fate of character and how the game unfolds
- 27. Sounds originating in and for the story world that can be heard by the characters
- 30. The ruling class of society under the capitalist economic system
Down
- 1. Where mindless, impulsive, violent individuals become as violent as the most violent person in the crowd
- 2. The literal or most obvious interpretation of a sign
- 3. The magnum opus of Karl Marx that outlines his critique of capitalism
- 5. Home to cultural theorists such as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
- 8. A media studies paradigm that addresses one of the gaps in social scientific research methods by examining identity and social context
- 9. Something we do to be in community with others that requires thought, connection, sharing, and solidarity.
- 11. This is embedded in a message during the encoding process and derived from a message in the decoding process
- 12. The science of signs
- 13. He developed the encoding/decoding model of communication
- 15. Not the cost but the utility of a commodity
- 19. The first communications scholar to write about cancelculture
- 20. Espoused the central argument of participatory culture
- 21. Coined the term machine learning
- 23. A feature of the technology at the centre of participatory culture.
- 28. The receipt and interpretation of the message by the receiver
- 29. The laws constitutions, theories, ideologies and social institutions that express and ratify the domination of a particular class.