Pop Culture "news"
Gabler & Lugo-Lugo
Digital Media
Sociological Theory
Past Semester Readings
100
This Tampa native recently won The Bachelor
Who is Josh Murray
100
Woody from the film ______________ represents gender roles and sexuality.
What is Toy Story
100
Media not only pass along messages from sender from receiver but actively reshape how we process information, knowledge, and text.
What is "the medium is the message"
100
This German theorist examined conflict between social classes, and foresaw revolution upon acquiring one's 'class consciousness'
Who is Karl Marx
100
Discussing notions of Black sexuality, this writer has catchy titles for her book chapters, such as "Booty Call"
Who is Patricia Hill Collins
200
This reality show, based on 7 strangers living in house together, first aired in the early 1990s and recently completed its 29th season.
What is 'The Real World'?
200
Gabler notes that it has been said that a celebrity is a "person who is known for their _____________"
What is "well-knownness"
200
As opposed to explicit learning techniques, Grazian suggests that playing video games may contribute to __________ learning.
What is collateral learning
200
This theorist discusses the difference between front stage & back stage presentation of self.
Who is Erving Goffman
200
Kimmel: "Masculinity as ___________"
What is Homophobia
300
This author of "The Hunger Games" trilogy also wrote the series "The Underland Chronicles
Who is Suzanne Collins
300
According to Lugo-Lugo, Disney films (and children's films in general) are "agents of __________."
What is socialization
300
These MMORPGs (like World of Warcraft) allow players to adopt virtual identities to communicate and interact with one another
What are Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
300
Influenced by Marx, these theorists discussed 'Culture Industries' in the 1940s.
Who are Adorno and Horkheimer
300
Dines discusses and critiques image-based culture's influence on girls and performing femininity by analyzing this specific print media source
What is Cosmo magazine
400
This famous Late-night TV host recently announced his retirement
Who is David Letterman
400
__________ is the key factor that "turns a famous person into a celebrity"
What is Narrative
400
Due to the proliferation of online markets, the _________ industry is struggling, despite a reported record number of readers today
What is the newspaper industry
400
Known for his contribution to "cultural hegemony"
Who is Antonio Gramsci
400
According to Radway, romance novel readers form _________ communities
What is Interpretive
500
An interesting commentary on society in some ways, this group released the song "#Selfie"
Who are The Chainsmokers
500
Several types of stereotypes have been discussed in regard to Disney, but the Lugo-Lugo article specifically focuses on representations of _________ & ___________
What is race and sexuality?
500
According to Grazian, the digital age is marked by 3 interrelated phenomena: 1, 2, 3
What is 1) the convergence of media content across platforms; 2) the active participation of audiences that co-produce media experience; and 3) the collective intelligence of consumers as an emergent form of media power
500
This theorist's contributions including models of Encoding and Decoding to describe how people interpret media texts in various ways
Who is Stuart Hall
500
Wendy Griswold created the "Cultural Diamond". What are the four points on this model?
What are cultural objects, producers, receivers, and the social world
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