TELE 3010 1nd Edition Lecture 23Outline of Last LectureI. FandomII. Fans as a Multi-plat formed worldOutline of Current LectureI. Media Spaces and CommunityCurrent Lecture- Media spaces are fixed but also porous. It’s involved on establishing a center (everything from where power is located in the household to the world) to the margins. Media is involved in locating and fixing the boundaries of that (like what is normal and what is abnormal).HOMES- Media are central to the American dream. We cross from our engagement into the public world into this private and safe space.- It offers us familiar content — the family and domestic sitcom. These mirror for us what family and homes look like. - Television also brings what is on the outside to you. GENDER AND TELEVISION- Gender Roles through television day parts. Women are all over the morning shows. Primetime is for the whole family and late night is for men. The time-clock for gender performances is targeted specifically for who is home at that time.- heteronormativity — defines what constitutes the family and home.- Media was seen as dangerous such as in the 1950s there was the comic book scares.COMMUNITY- It is an imagined claim. - Newspapers were an important first step in helping people view themselves as communities in nations. - What are the symbols of communities?- Flags- Sacred texts- Chants/Songs- Religion, schools, region- The symbolic world depends on rituals — we share sets of behaviors that perform the symbol. For example, the ritual of the inauguration is important because of the representation of a new peaceful transition of power. - To have a community, it must be distinguishable. There must be boundaries of some sort.These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.- Media do community through expression, refraction, and critique. Refraction is the ways in which media allow for transgression against the community, where the boundaries that are set up are crossed. Jerry Springer and satire as an example of refraction. Critiques: media allows for it (The Black Press and The Internet).ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY - The TV is always on. It is embedded in the culture of the household. This is about the trust we place inmedia. - Imagine 9/11 without the media. - Trust as a commodity: it is something institutionalized. So how is it a commodity within media? Brand recognition for example — we see a ton of Tide advertisements, so we buy Tide detergent because itwill get the dirt out of our clothes better than Arm and Hammer.- Media delivers trust but it also needs trust! News is obvious. There are lots of entities competing for the same truths. MEMORY- How do media participate in public memory? — we have memorial anniversaries, replaying of old shows, documentaries, revisionist histories, etc. Done with the technique of realism. Django Unchained and 12 Years A Slave are both revisionist histories. They revisit the past and tell it. FMedia allows us to see others, and through others we can see
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