Midterm Media and Society

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Across
  1. 2. A reading that accepts some parts of a message but resists others
  2. 6. Marx described worker _____, or estrangement from labor (p. 61)
  3. 7. An analysis focused on signs and meanings
  4. 8. Repeated narrative devices or themes
  5. 9. The economic system focused on profit and private ownership
  6. 13. The implied or associated meaning
  7. 14. A reading that completely rejects a text’s intended message
  8. 15. A humorous imitation that comments on the original
  9. 20. Media texts are created for an _____ to interpret (pp. 129, 179)
  10. 21. Updated versions of stories with significant changes
  11. 24. A conceptual ______ or framework of choices.
  12. 25. The process of interpreting a media message
  13. 26. The capitalist owning class in Marxist theory
  14. 27. Feeling disconnected from labor or its products
  15. 34. The quality of being “real” or genuine is called _____ (pp. xxii, 12–14, 87–90, 154, 231–32, 248)
  16. 35. A category or ______ of media texts.
  17. 39. Associated or implied meanings beyond the ______.
  18. 40. A text that comments on its own construction or media form
  19. 41. A smaller cultural group with distinct beliefs and styles
  20. 43. The cultural movement blending Black identity with speculative futures is known as _____
  21. 44. Media texts can produce _____, or emotional impact
  22. 45. The physical or spoken form of a sign
  23. 46. Structured systems of meaning used to interpret signs
  24. 47. The actual object or idea a sign points to
  25. 50. The practice of challenging or disrupting normative gender/sexual roles
  26. 51. Extending narratives across multiple ______ platforms.
  27. 52. The ______ combination of elements in a text.
  28. 54. The units of meaning in a semiotic system
  29. 55. An economic system advocating classless, collective ownership
  30. 56. The associative level of meaning
  31. 57. Rigid ideas of identity as ______ fixed.
Down
  1. 1. Studied at a single point in time
  2. 3. The belief in fixed, inherent traits in identity
  3. 4. The shaping of meaning through reference to other ______.
  4. 5. Studied across time or historical change
  5. 6. An indirect reference to another text is called an _____ (pp. 7, 94–96, 125, 129, 179)
  6. 10. Experimental or innovative cultural forms are often described as _____ (pp. 9, 14–16, 31)
  7. 11. Dominant cultural power maintained through consent
  8. 12. The process of creating meaning in media texts
  9. 16. Changing a work from one medium to another is called an
  10. 17. The literal level of signification
  11. 18. New versions of existing works
  12. 19. A theoretical perspective focused on class struggle
  13. 22. Relating to or shaped by ideology
  14. 23. Cultural beliefs and values that shape perception
  15. 28. _____ was a critical theorist and coauthor of Dialectic of Enlightenment
  16. 29. A social or cultural category relating to ______ / ______.
  17. 30. Recurring ______ or ideas in a text.
  18. 31. The literal, surface-level meaning
  19. 32. A collage-like ______ that lacks original intent.
  20. 33. The Marxist theorist who introduced “interpellation” was _____
  21. 36. A media fan ______ or subculture.
  22. 37. The process by which ideology recruits individuals
  23. 38. Recurring symbols or narrative elements in a text
  24. 42. A system of signs and their meanings
  25. 48. A set of choices within a system of signs
  26. 49. Texts with multiple interpretations or meanings
  27. 52. The study of signs and meaning-making systems
  28. 53. The interpretation of a previously encoded message