Cultural Studies
The mental frameworks different classes and social groups employ to make sense of the way in which society works.
Ideology
The concept that suggests that media forms rather than contents shape human experience.
The Medium is the Message.
Philosophy professor whose ideas have come to be known as symbolic interaction.
Herbert Mead.
A linguistic method used to interpret verbal and non-verbal signs
Semiotics
Information and communication technologies - initialism.
Frameworks of interpretation.
Discourse
A socially constructed sensory world of meanings that shapes our perceptions, attitudes and behaviour.
Symbolic environment.
Philosophy professor whose ideas have come to be known as symbolic interaction.
Looking-glass self.
A signifier and signified are combined in this entity.
Sign
A set of interconnected nodes.
What is a network?
The preponderant influence of one group over another.
Hegemony
A place/tie where sense of hearing, touch, taste and smell were developed beyond the ability to visualize.
Tribal age.
What do interactionists believe are crucial differences between humans and animals?
Humans have the ability to use symbols to communicate.
The term used to describe a descriptive sign.
Denotative.
who, with which characteristics, connects how to what.
The ways in which the digital divide is measured.
The audience’s reading of a message coincides with the intended message.
Preference reading/decoding.
A symbolic environment of instant communication which returns us to a pre-alphabetic oral tradition where sound and touch are more important than sight. We’ve ‘gone back to the future’ to become a village.
Electronic Age OR the Global Village.
The name given to the composite mental images one puts together from social interactions.
Generalized other.
The term used to describe a symbolic sign.
Connotative.
How to make use of information gleaned from ICTs
Digital literacy.
Audience sees through media bias and mounts and effort to demythologize the news
Oppositional reading/decoding
A critic who argued that new technology presents a Faustina bargain where losses needed to be tallied alongside benefits.
Neil Postman
The philosopher who argued that our identity is formed by how we respond to others rather than how we emulate others' perceptions of us.
Emmanuel Levinas.
The transformation of history into nature.
Myth-making.
Income, race, gender, geographic locations, ages, skills awareness, political, cultural and psychological attitudes
Factors contributing to the digital divide.