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Past Semester Readings
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This football player recently became the first player to be openly gay and entering the NFL draft
Who is Michael Sam
100
The practice of sending, posting, or possessing sexually suggestive text messages and images via cell phones or the internet
What is Sexting
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 just completed its 29th season.
What is 'The Real World'?
200
This first court case to challenge the constitutionality of prosecuting teens for their digital sexual expression occurred in Pennsylvania.
What is Miller v. Mitchell (2010)
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
Drawing on analogies made with a speech given by Barbara Bush, Laura Sells discusses gender as performative in the film ____________
What is The Little Mermaid
300
This author of "The Hunger Games" trilogy also wrote the series "The Underland Chronicles
Who is Suzanne Collins
300
According to Karaian, the moral panic over sexting is an apparent attempt to protect this particular social group
Who are white, heterosexual, middle/upper class, 'respectable' girls
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
Hasinoff discusses and critiques discourses on "sociobiology" by analyzing this specific form of media content
What is Cosmo magazine
400
This Late-night TV host recently announced his retirement
Who is David Letterman
400
True or False: Karaian found that teens sext more frequently than young adults
What is False. In both surveys analyzed, sexting frequency increases with age
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 her contribution of "the oppositional gaze"
Who is bell hooks
400
Williams discusses notions of authentic identity within the Straightedge subculture. In his research he concluded that these two "groups" perceive authenticity differently after the emergence of online media.
What are Music straightedgers & Net straightedgers
500
An interesting commentary on society in some ways, this group recently released the song "#Selfie"
Who are The Chainsmokers
500
At the core of Karaian's research, she finds that implicit _________ becomes a means to restrict girls' sexual agency and expression
What is censorship?
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