This 'school' was built up from a political economy foundation
What is the Toronto school
100
These are the two main theorists we've studied who we consider 'functionalists'
Who are Paul Lazarsfeld and Harold Lasswell
100
We are two feminist critics of structuralism
Who are Judith Butler and Liesbet van Zoonen
100
I wrote the Allegory of the Cave
Who is Plato
100
This is where Habermas said the public sphere originated
What are salons and coffee houses
200
Frankly speaking, I think those other guys in my 'school' are too critical of mass production
Who is Walter Benjamin
200
If there was a Disney song about my model of communication, it would be called "let it flow"
Who is Paul Lazarsfeld
200
I believe that certain 'sports' reflect a binary structure of judgement (heroes and villains)
Who is Roland Barthes
200
This is the name of John Stuart Mill's theory we studied
What is Liberal Press Theory
200
These are the three 'Hall'-marks of how people interpret communication in his British Cultural Studies approach
What are dominant-hegemonic, negotiated, and oppositional
300
This famous phrase is meant to show that we need to study how communication technologies change the ways people interact in society
What is "the medium is the message"
300
These are the 3 functions media serves for society, according to Harold Lasswell
What are surveillance, correlation, and transmission
300
These are three linguists / semiologists we've studied
Who are Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Levi-Strauss, Charles Peirce
300
This is the name of the film we watched in class about the telegraph and railroads
What is 'the Lonedale Operator'
300
This is the difference in terms of what is cultural for British Culture Studies compared to that of the Frankfurt school
What is the understanding of pop-culture as cultural
400
Walter Benjamin worries that this is the end result of art being liberated from it's aura
What is art being used for the promotion of war by political bodies
400
According to Paul Lazarsfeld, Kate Smith was one of these
What is an opinion leader
400
First part: me waving at you
Second part: this means, "hello"
What is the signifier and signified
400
Top 'Marx' for pointing out this term the famous theorist used to identify how work is made more efficient in a modern industrial society
What is "the division of labour"
400
These are where the public sphere takes place today in a non-ideal way
What are Facebook, Twitter, etc
500
Adorno and Horkheimer use this term to sum up the manufacturing of music in a capitalist society
What is "the culture industry"
500
These are the 5 components of communication, according to Harold Lasswell
What are Who / Says What / In What Channel / To Whom / With What Effect
500
You could (roughly) summarize my argument as:
More information = less meaning
Who is Jean Baudrillard
500
These are the four reasons John Stuart Mill gives in support of the freedom of expression and opinion
What are: 1) The silenced opinion may be true; 2) The silenced opinion may have a portion of truth; 3) Majority opinions will become prejudiced if not tested by untruths; 4) People will lose conviction in the truth and it will have no positive effect in the world anymore
500
Edward Herman says that these 5 filters limit the range of messages in the mass media
What are 1) Size and ownership of the mass media; 2) Advertising as revenue; 3) Sourcing the news; 4) Flak; and 5) Anticommunism labels