CCT210H5 Study Guide - Constant Craving, Activision, Juven

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Phenomena in which there was the constant craving for new objects of consumption and new forms of media. Blackberryor iphone even if their current one is working properly juvenilization tendency of older people who like to think of themselves as forever young in both a physical and social way. Example: a lady in her 40"s dressing in clothes that are targeted for teenagers reification the method in which one turns an abstract concept into one that isconcrete. Example: the hero of a story always being strong, a rescuer, undefeatable narrative things such as stories, accounts, tales that are narrated, spoken or written. Ferdinand de saussure"s model of the sign consists of two parts, the signifier (form the sign takes, whether it be a word, sound or symbol) and the signified (theconcept it represents). As a result of associating both the signifier and the signified you form thesign.