I See What You Did There (Visual & Integral Culture)
This term refers to consistency across visual cues. Its how we understand that multiple pictures are related.
Continuity
Selecting and arranging information into a coherent structure for storytelling.
Plot
______ are those who garner attention because they model good or admirable behavior, while _______ are those who cultivate attention through constant media exposure. I guess they aren't really mutually exclusive, though...
Heroes & Celebrities
Fisk proposed three kinds of fan production. This expression from this typology refers to when a fan is willing to speak with others about the meanings that they take-away from a text.
Enunciative
The term for a text that is a [re]presentation or retelling of similar content in another text.
Adaptation
"Do you smell that?" This nonverbal cue indicates our understanding through sense of smell or taste.
Olfactics
Red pill or blue pill? This view of identity says that humans need technology to thrive, but we must be careful not to rely too much on our machines...
Transhumanism (Cyborgism)
This scholar coined the term "American monomyth," a variation of the hero's journey with three abstract phases.
Joseph Campbell
This scholar distinguished between traditional community and the notion of communitas, which can occur even when people are not in close proximity.
Victor Turner
This game is fun, right? If only there were another term for recreational activity... that also suspends usual social rules and has uncertain outcomes
Play
A kind of editing that establishes continuity by putting part 1 of a behavior in one image, then part 2 of the same behavior in another image...
Match-on-Action
According to J. M. Allison, narratives are usually shared in order to accomplish a larger social goal. The idea behind this concept is that narratives can be tactics in larger "life stories."
Narratization
The "American Monomyth" starts with this step of a three-phase process.
Separation
This theory was incepted by Herbert Spencer, who took an extreme view of "On the Origin of Species" and tried to harshly intervene in evolutionary processes. (Name the theory)
Social Darwinism
Jean Baudrillard lamented that people increasingly spend time making decisions based on mediated images of reality rather than first-hand experience. This images are called a special name that means "likeness" or "sameness."
Simulacra
The term for telling the same story across multiple media.
(Its cool that we can read a graphic novel sequel to Tim Burton's Batman movies, am I right?)
Transmedia
According to this scholar, pop culture and media basically plays out our unconscious fantasies so that our conscious mind can focus on doing more socially acceptable things
Sigmund Freud
Celebrities acquire this status when they have a professional team helping them build their image and brand, as well as promote their image through new media.
Stardom
Hinck's theory that everyday people occasionally pair non-civic ideas (things learned from fan media & entertainment) with civic modalities or actions (like voting).
Fan-based Citizenship
According to Fisk, this kind of fan production refers to the personal meanings that people take away from fan-objects.
Semiotic
Video games are a common example of media texts that equitably access oral/auditory, written, and visual cues. Gebser and Kramer called this kind of communication: ___________
Integral
Althusser's concept that media shows people how they're "supposed" to behave and reinforces that they should perform in certain social roles.
Interpellation
According to Max Weber, this is a major quality by which people build relationships and win others over. Celebrities often capitalize on this quality in their media presence.
Charisma
Deficient
According to Kramer, Integral cultures integrate, and equitably utilize, aspects of these three other kinds of cultural [world]views and communication.
Idolic, Symbolic, Signalic