COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Judy Wajcman, Semiotics

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 2003
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

Structuralism: is a way to say about thing that are interrelated, the connectedness between thinks, science is arbitrary and exits in relation to other components. From the semiotic position, they would just stop at the signifier and signified. However, feminists saw the problem, built on top of semiotics to critique media that perpetuate certain stereotypes, misrepresent women: those shared values perpetuates ideologies they sue to keep us in place. Structures of domination: unfair, unequal, ideological, oppressive: one of the ideology systems use to keep in place is gender, race, what creates the potential for meaning is system of domination. 1960 is characterized by skepticism of systems as a result of a large scale pushes for human rights and attempts, claims by a number of different groups (women, indigenous, american african). They claim that they should have equal rights -> concern about systems. How these systems perpetuate or oppress some groups of people associated with race , gender and so on.