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Media, Minorities, and Meaning
J320 Gender, Media, and Diversity Flashcards
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Journalism
Undergraduate 4
01/18/2012

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Myths
Definition
The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves
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Cultural Studies Approach
Definition
Guides readers toward an understanding of the roots of stereotype formation and the role mass media play in constructing, reinforcing, perpetuating, and maintaining stereotypes.
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"Collective Unconcious"
Definition
The human psyche. Carl Jung said the collective unconcious contains "the entire psychic heritage" of human beings. It's existence is most visible in our dreams, in the symbols we use to express meaning, and universally in timeless stories and fairy tales.
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Stereotypes
Definition
Overgeneralizations that treat all members of a group as the same.
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Archetypes
Definition
Multi- dimensional timeless figures.
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Knowledge
Definition
people, places, and things we come to know either through media, experience, or word of mouth
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Gatekeepers
Definition
Editors, Producers
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Agenda-Setting Function (of the media)
Definition
Tells consumers what to think about and sometimes what to think about the information we are given.
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Artificial Censorships
Definition
The selective presentation of facts on the part of politicians and the mass media.
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Limitations of Social Contact
Definition
People tend to socialize with others who are, in some way, like them. Sometimes it's economical, but most times it's ideological. 
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Limited Time Available
Definition
There is little time available to contemplate assumptions or presumptions about those who are somewhat different from us.
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Distortions
Definition
The bulk of what we know about the world outside comes to us through words and images produced by the media. Gatekeepers choose what people see.
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Limited Vocabulary
Definition
Words have different meanings to different people. Think of "Immigrant," or "Terrorist." Journalists and advertisers have tremendous power with words. 
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Fear
Definition
The power of fear to motivate and dictate what we hear, see, feel, and do. Fear of the unknown, fear of loss of resources, and fear of change are all powerful motivations for the maintenance and perpetuation of limited views of others.
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Cultures
Definition
Groups that share the same ideals about love, life, death, and origins. All societies have them.
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Eternal Figures
Definition
People, places, and things we know that come from stories we tell each other over and over again but in a way that relates to a particular time and place.
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Metaphysical Function of Myths
Definition
A sense of the transcendent, of something or someone bigger than the self "out there."
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Cosmological Funtion of Myths
Definition
An idea of connectedness to a mysterious external reality and that we play an important role in the oder of things, real and imagined.
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Sociological Funtion of Myths
Definition
Passing down of the "correct" order of things, the codes and rules people need to follow to present a coordinated social order that affirms dominant social structure.
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Pedagogical Function of Myths
Definition
Teaches us how to be in the world, in relaiton to individual developement as well as how to interact with others.
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Codes
Definition
Guidelines people need to follow that present a coordinated social order that affirms dominant social structure.
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Metaphors
Definition
Can be visual or verbal, stand in for something else from which meaning is made.
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Metaphorical Discourse
Definition
The contstruced narrative that accompanies the tale which itself might be an illusion.
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Psyche
Definition
Unconsious
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Primary Archetypes
Definition
Eternal figures, as Jung said.
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7 Primary Archetypes
Definition

Hero-To serve and sacrifice

Mentor- To guide

Threshold Guardian- To test

Herald- To warn and challenge

Shape Shifter- To question and decieve

Shadow- To destroy

Trickster- To disrupt

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Cinemyths
Definition
Tollefson refers to them. Familiar constructions revealed through film.
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Ideology
Definition
A belief system that "In order to be effective, must be percieved as the truth, rather than seen as one of many possible belief systems." Makes certain groups understand and percieve the world in a certain consistent way.
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Articulation Theory
Definition
"Makes sense out of otherwise, and previously, unrelated concepts."- Stuart Hall
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Hegemony
Definition
A ruling of society through the power of ideas versus physical force and where the governed consent to their sublimation, relies on the power of myth. Form of social control.
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Ideological State Apparatus
Definition
Instruments of power that operate as a force in "ways that are subtle, disguised, and accepted as everyday social practice. (Ferdinand Althusser's view)
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Subjectivity
Definition
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Ways to Study Myths
Definition
Semiotics and mythological analysis
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Semiotics
Definition
an interdisciplinary method of denaturalizing words, symbols, and signs that suggest certain things.
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Langue
Definition
(Language) The system or rules around language use, such as syntax.
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Parole
Definition
(Speech) The use of language.
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Epistemology
Definition
The study of knowledge
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Cultural Relativity
Definition
Different values or opinions on things from different cultures
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Conventions
Definition
A particular way of shooting a scene, use of lighting, shadows, or music.
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Linguistic Relativity
Definition
Differences in meanings or sheer number of words used in a particular language based on the importance of the person, place, or thing of the culture.
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Israel Zangwill
Definition
In the 1800s, escaped persecution and certain death in Russia. He wrote a play that talked about the "melting pot" phenomenon. 
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Othering
Definition
Identification of another person on the basis of some real or imagined, visible or invisible, difference that is used to sustain and maintain inequities in power.
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Schemata
Definition
Knowledge structures based on experiences that shape people's views of the world. A cognitive tool.
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Prejudice
Definition
What people think
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Discrimination
Definition
Acting on one's prejudice
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Institutionalized Discrimination
Definition
Operates at the ideological level and includes patterns, policies, and procedures, that work to overlook, overpower, and otherwise maintain control of individuals who do not belong to the dominant group.
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Internalized Oppression
Definition
When members of the oppressed group are emotionally, physically, and spiritually battered to the point that they begin to actually believe that their oppression is deserved, is their lot in life, and is natural and right. 
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Categorization
Definition
The process of grouping things (or people) together based on what they have in common from which an ideal type emerges.
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The Essences
Definition
Ideas that metaphorically connect mind and world.
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