MEDIAST 10 Study Guide - Final Guide: Noble Savage, Copyright Infringement, Public Space
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Character types = constructions with commonly understood traits and behaviors. They use character type to gure out the personality of the character. Friends: joey is the playboy; ross is the academic nerd. A shorthand to help media-makers create meaning and audience to understand it. Ex: ninja turtle ve turtles with different personalities and behaviors. Fix and naturalize difference between groups of people (to separate people in small group with. Reduce an entire group into a few simple characteristics. However: friends are different as they are allowed to share the same category of young, white. Ex: asian americans in media are usually portrayed to be smart and socially inept the other how media spread it. We are normal while the other is strange and different . Stereotypes (they don"t have much power in the media) Splitting = x boundaries between social groups. Example: ladies taking sel es with food at a baseball game and uploading that online with a hashtag.
