Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Death Of Freddie Gray, Semiotics, White Supremacy

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E
• Professor: Nick Dyer- Witheford

Document Summary

A movement against police brutality in us against african american. Triggered by a shooting of a black teen. Grew in 2014, after the case of michael brown in ferguson. Many black women victims from police brutality. Triggered by the death of freddie gray. Media represent the world: signs stand in for the real thing. Reflective: media passively mirror the world, more or less accurately. Constructive: media actively produce meaning, defining situations and fabricating identities (race, gender, class), media constructs our reality. Signs: texts are made of words, sounds, images, representing the world. Stories: signs are organized into sequences, depicting the movement of the world, how things change, where they are going, or in what way. Stereotypes: stories involve characters, people or agent. Bodies of representation about a particular topic. Discourses are in turn part of ideology, the way those with power define meaning and representation.