Culture
Cultural Processes
Stuart Hall
Media Analysis Report
Women/Hispanic/Black
Media
100

This is the shared system of values, beliefs, behaviors, customs, traditions, language, and practices that shapes how a group understands and experiences the world. 

Culture 

100

Anthropologist Edward T. Hall is associated with this metaphor that compares culture to an object with visible and hidden parts.

Iceberg Metaphor

100

This communication process describes how media producers put meanings, ideas and messages into media content.

Encoding 

100

This scholar developed the concept of "double consciousness" in his discussion of the Black American experience.

W.E.B. Du Bois 

100

This magazine, founded in 1972, became an important publication associated with the women's movement and feminist media.

Ms. Magazine

200

This is the process through which a person learns the culture of the society or group they are born into.

Enculturation 

200

Food, clothing, music, language, and certain traditions can be examples of this part of culture that is easier to see.

Surface Culture 

200

This communication process describes how audiences interpret and make meaning from media messages. 

Decoding 

200

This is the term a sociologist used to describe the experience of seeing oneself through one's own identity while also being conscious of how one is viewed by another society.

Double Consciousness 

200

This magazine was founded in 1970 and became an important publication focused on Black women and their culture, beauty, politics and experiences.

Essence Magazine 

300

This happens when a person or group adopts aspects of another culture while still maintaining aspects of their original culture. 

Acculturation 

300

Beliefs, values, attitudes, perceptions, ideas about relationships, and concepts of right and wrong can be examples of this part of culture.

Deep Culture 

300

What does Stuart Hall’s model say about how audiences interpret media messages?

Audiences may interpret messages differently than producers intended.

300

In what work was the concept of seeing oneself through the eyes of others discussed?

The Souls of Black Folk 

300

This Spanish-language television network is commonly known by the initials SIN.

Spanish International Network (SIN) 

400

This process occurs when a person or group gradually adopts the culture of another society, often losing or replacing parts of their original cultural practices.

Assimilation

400

According to the cultural iceberg metaphor, this part of culture is much larger than the visible portion.

Deep Culture 

400

In Stuart Hall's model, this is the stage where the media producer creates and organizes the message using cultural and professional codes.

Encoding 

400

Double consciousness refers to seeing oneself as both what?

Black and American

400

SIN developed from Spanish-language television broadcasting connected to this Texas city.

San Antonio, Texas 

500

This term describes the feelings of confusion, discomfort or uncertainty a person may experience when they encounter a culture that is significantly different from their own.

Culture Shock 

500

Why is the cultural iceberg useful when studying media representation?

Hidden Cultural Values - Journalists may see visible cultural characteristics but miss deeper aspects of culture. 

500

What can influence how audiences interpret media messages?

Their social and cultural experiences.

500

What should media practitioners consider when representing different identities and communities?

 Representation

500

Founded in 1827, this newspaper is recognized as the first African American newspaper in the United States.

Freedom's Journal