Titlebook: Media Literacy and Semiotics; Elliot Gaines Book 2010 Elliot Gaines 2010 culture.ideology.media.media literacy.Narrative.semiotics.space.s

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Introduction: Media Literacy and Semiotics,dressed in the media; for example, the 1990s television situation comedy . was promoted as a show about nothing. But rather than being about nothing, . was a series of stories featuring a cast of comic characters that illustrated a particular contemporary set of values, beliefs, lifestyles, and prac

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Media Literacy and Semiotics, distribution are expensive, and media messages are constructed by individuals and teams of people with the intention of sending messages that influence public opinions and individual actions. It is therefore necessary for every individual and social group to be able to critically analyze and unders

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The Necessary Ambiguity of Communication,ok on from the boardwalk in front of a saloon. In the foreground, a cowboy points a smoking gun, but a dish of something fluid, perhaps a cream pie, is splashing across his face. Just in front of the cowboy, a clown in a polka-dotted shirt with a ruffled collar lies sprawled on the ground, his tongu

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Power and Proxy in Media Semiotics,on CNN because King got Paris Hilton to appear after she was released from jail. Referring to Paris Hilton, Moore said, “She is our proxy.” Jon Stewart laughed and responded, “She is the canary in the coal mine.”. A canary was traditionally used in mines because it would suffocate from a lack of oxy

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Audiences, Identity, and the Semiotics of Space,r the contexts of events in time and space. The literature about space and time is rich and complex, but this chapter is limited to a practical treatment of these concepts in relation to media and audiences. . are receivers of specific conventional modes of communication intended for many people. In

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Entertainment, Culture, Ideology, and Myth,iety. Media products and innovations take many forms, such as television programs, advertising, film, the Internet, electronic games, literature, and comic books, to name a few that provoke perpetual debates about their effects. Entertainment and nonfiction, such as the various forms of journalism,

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to on a daily basis. In this comprehensive book, a basic model of semiotic logic is applied to a variety of media studies to promote critical thinking and media literacy. Elliot Gaines systematically analyzes the hidden meanings in mass-mediated products and texts, and shows how basic meaning struct

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Entertainment, Culture, Ideology, and Myth,comic books, to name a few that provoke perpetual debates about their effects. Entertainment and nonfiction, such as the various forms of journalism, raise questions about representations and issues related to politics, sex, violence, and crime, and their impact on social values, beliefs, and practices within a given culture.

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News, Culture, Information, and Entertainment,munication to reach vast numbers of people. Following well-established institutional practices, media producers are generally dependent on many kinds of expensive technologies and equipment to create and distribute media products intended to inform, entertain, or persuade audiences.