Media Studies

MEDIA STUDIES KEYTERMS This page is a collection of keywords related to media studies produced by students in Whittier College Media Studies courses.

• Acoustic Space
• Advertising
• Aesthetic
• Affect
• Agency
• Agenda-Setting
• Agressor Effect
• American Dream
• Analog
• Apparatus Theory
• Assimilation
• Base
• Bystander Effect
• Camp
• Carnivalesque
• Catharsis Effect
• Celebrity
• Cluster
• Code
  • Decoding
  • Encoding
• Concentration
• Conglomeration
• Connotation
• Consequences
• Conspicuous Consumption
• Contingencies
• Conventions
• Convergence
• Cool Media
• Computer
  • Human Computer
• Copyright
• Critical Media Studies
• Crowdsourcing
• Cultural Appropriation
• Cultural Production
• Culture
• Culture Jamming
• DARPA
• Democratization
• Denotation
• Desire
• Difference
• Digital
• Digital Rights
  • Digital Rights Management
• Discursive Construction
• Doxa
• Dramaturgy
• Drive
• Encryption
• Equipment for Living
• Essentialism
• Ethics
  • Code of Ethics
• Ethnography
• Exclusion
• Exoticism
• Fandom
• Fantasy
• Feminism
• Fetishism
• Folksonomy
• Form
• Fourth Persona
• Fragmentation
• Frames
  • Frame Analysis
  • Media Frames
• Gatekeeping
• Gender
• Genre
• Glass Cieling
• Globalization
• Guilt
• Habit
• Hegemony
• Hermeneutic
  • Hermeneutic Depth
• Heteronormativity
• Hierarchy
• Historical Materialism
• Hot Media
• Imaginary
• Impression Management
• Indecency
• Information Bias
• Intellectual Property
• Interpellation
• Interpretive Communities
• Intertextuality
• Ironism
• Joint Ventures
• Jouissance
• Journalism
  • Journalistic Beats
  • Muckracking
  • Yellow Journalism
• Integration
• Lack
• Libel
• Literacy
  • Information Literacy
  • Digital Literacy
  • Media Literacy
• Logic of Safety
• Male Gaze
• Marxism
• Mass Media
• Media Ecology
• Media Reform
• Medium
  • Space-Biased Media
  • Time-Biased Media
  • Medium Theory
• Meliorism
• Memory
• Mobility
• Multinationationalism
• Myth
• Narrative
• Neoliberalism
• News
  • News agencies
• [Normative]
• Obscenity
• Objectivity
• Oedipus Complex
• Orality
• Organizational Culture
• Organizations
• Othering
  • Racial Othering
  • Sexual Othering
• Paradigm Shift
• Patriarchy
• Performativity
• Phallocentrism
  • Phallologocentrism
• Play
  • Interpretive Play
• Plaisir
• Pleasure Principle
• Planned Obsolescence
• Political Economy
• Polyphony
• Polysemy
• Polyvalence
• Posmodernity
• Postfeminism
• Pragmatism
• Press Releases
• Productive
• Profanity
• Professional Culture
  • Professionalization
  • Professionals
• Profit-Motive
• Pundits
  • Punditry
• Queer Theory
  • Queer
• Readerly Text
• Realism
  • Grotesque Realism
• Reality Principle
• Reception Theory
• Relativism
• Representation
• Repression
• Resistive Reading
• Rhetoric
• Scopophilia
• Sex
• Sexism
• Sexuality
• Semiology
  • Semiotic
  • Signified
  • Signifier
• Signifying System
• Sign
  • Iconic Sign
  • Indexical Sign
• Simulation
• Slander
• Socialization
• Spectacle
• Stereotype
• Strategic Ambuguity
• Structure
• Structure of Feeling
• Structuralism
• Superstructure
• Symbol
• Symbolic
  • Symbolic Action
  • Symbolic Interactionism
• Synergy
• Text
• Textual Wink
• Theory
• Token
• Transgression
• Unconscious
• User
• User Participation
• User-Created Content
• Victim Effect
• Visibility
• Visual Space
• Violence
  • Economic Violence
  • Historical Violence
  • Hyper-real Violence
  • Ritualistic Violence
• Voyeurism
• Web 2.0