COMM 401 Final: 401 Final Review 14F (1).docx

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 401
• Professor: Hoffman

Document Summary

* commodity feminism: the selling of products using ideals of feminism. * why pop culture and visual media are important: popular culture and critical media analysis enable youth to understand and participate in the representations that help to construct their identities. In the struggle over the symbolic order that characterizes our times, popular culture is crucial in creating the identities and representations that our youth embrace: characteristics of news. Calibrated towards money to make money for it"s parent company. : what symbols are in play in an ad and what function do they have? i. e. christmas ads; symbolic context- i. e. : what symbols are in play in an ad and what function do they have? i. e. christmas ads; symbolic context- i. e. emoticons from walmart"s cyber monday commercial. Vague distributors; overly vague so you fill it in yourself: weak verbs definitively prove; i. e. helps promote beautiful skin .