Chapter 9
A range of activities that involve physical exertion and skill.
What is sport
This department is the largest employer in the world
What is the DoD- Department of Defense
Skills that allow you to gain important tools to interpret media and actively assess your own media consumption practices.
What is media literacy
Dr. Malone used this Marxian concept to discuss how social media has separated people from themselves and others.
What is alienation
This sports organization is the least diverse
What is the MLB
individuals or organizations with economic, political, or social power that allows them to influence both national and international events, typically with violence.
What are nonstate actors
the social and organizational structures of communicating information throughout a given society to its members.
What is mass media
Dr. Malone used Iron Man to discuss this concept
What is the military industrial complex
Elite White ethnics formed exclusive clubs in urban industrial areas to promote group identity and enhance status
What is club movement
An intense fear and paranoia regarding Muslims and Arabs.
What is Islamophobia
“if men [sic] define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”
What is Thomas Theorem
The two teams we discussed that changed mascots
Who are the Washington Commanders (formerly Redskins) and the Cleveland Guardians (formerly Indians)
The view that biological differences between genders and among racial, cultural, and national groups account for variations in athletic ability, performance, and success.
The Nature Perspective
Vernon Baker was the only living Black WWII veteran alive to receive this medal for his service
What is the Medal of Honor
These are strategies to act in the world.
What are cognitive maps
Dr. Malone said this social media app is where he spends most of time on
What is Instagram
Revealed a criminal conspiracy in which 53 people were charged with attempting to influence undergraduate admissions at several elite American universities.
What is Operation Varsity Blues
a program which allowed 50,000 agricultural workers and 765 railroad workers from Mexico to enter the United States as contract guest workers.
What is the Bracero Program
McLuhan gives us this idea to discuss the consequences of any new medium that is introduced
What is “medium is the message”
Dr. Malone's dissertation chair served in this war
What is the Vietnam War