Cultivation Theory Daniel Chandler Cultivation theory (sometimes referred to as the cultivation hypothesis or cultivation analysis) was an approach developed by Professor George Gerbner‚ dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. He began the ’Cultural Indicators’ research project in the mid-1960s‚ to study whether and how watching television may influence viewers’ ideas of what the everyday world is like. Cultivation research is in the ’effects’ tradition
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Hello‚ I am Daniel. Welcome to my semiotic analysis of the Opening Credits of “The Last of Us”. First‚ let’s introduce some terms. Semiotics is the study of signs. As defied by Chandler‚ *SHOW IMAGE* “A sign is a meaningful unit which is interpreted as ‘standing for’ something other than itself.” “…the signifier is the form which a sign takes… something which can be seen‚ heard‚ felt‚ smelt or tasted” and the “…signified is the mental concept represented by the signifier”. (Chandler‚ 2013). Denotation
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1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Purpose statement This essay presents information on culture and identity based on Stuart Hall and Kath Woodward as well as information on the Astrophotography subculture and a semiotic analysis on three objects from this subculture and how this is indeed a subculture based on Paul Hodkinson’s four criteria’s. 1.2. Culture according to Stuart Hall According to Stuart Hall (2003:1)‚ culture is about “shared meanings”. Culture: Hall (2003:1) “is not so much a set of things…or
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Illustrating a female body in an advertising image is a common case. I have chosen to implement a semiotic analysis of the men’s fragrance advertisement based on Roland Barthes’s theory of the image. On the layout of the advertisement by Tom Ford appears a part of woman’s body. Cutting half of the head off from the top and everything beneath the breast from the bottom it is only possible to see her open mouth with red lipstick and her hands with red nail polish squeezing the breasts together to
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A logical place to start may be to ask ‘what is news?’ Professor Jonathan Bignell suggests that ‘news is not just facts‚ but representations produced in language and other signs like photographs.’ The newspaper is just one medium of news communication; other media include television‚ radio‚ magazines‚ and the Internet. We will concentrate on a particular news item as covered in three different British daily newspapers‚ namely The Sun‚ The Telegraph‚ and The Times. The story which is being covered
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The movie Pretty Woman and the book Jane Eyre contain lower class girls who have higher-class lovers. They both have a scene in which their rich lovers take them out to get rich‚ high class’ clothes and accessories. Both men like to pamper their women‚ even though Jane and Vivian do not like it that much. But eventually Vivian does get to fancy being weighted on. Vivian’s lover is very much like Mr. Rochester. He is rich and loves Vivian so much that he wishes to make her happy’ by spending money
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status themed‚ while on the other hand women’s advertisements are usually aimed at self improvement through beauty products. Semiotics‚ which utilizes the analysis of signs in a societal context‚ is a very useful theory when dissecting various media content. Specifically‚ this essay will examine the usefulness of semiotics in reference to magazine advertising through the analysis of three advertisements. The use of Barthes’ ideas regarding myths will also be utilized in explaining how mythic signs reinforce
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Structuralism and Semiotics What is Structuralism? Structuralism is the name that is given to a wide range of discourses that study underlying structures of signification. Signification occurs wherever there is a meaningful event or in the practise of some meaningful action. Hence the phrase‚ "signifying practices." A meaningful event might include any of following: writing or reading a text; getting married; having a discussion over a cup of coffee; a battle. Most (if not all) meaningful events
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discovering self purpose‚ the story-telling elements repeatedly draw a relation between life now in modern days and growing up in America between the 1920’s and the 1960’s. By analysing the albums artwork with its lyrical content its apparent that a semiotic relationship exist within the albums artwork. The following discussion intends to demonstrate how individual codes help illustrate to the audience the albums concept of anxiety and self-purpose through the artworks characters‚ framing‚ colours‚
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Lego targets parents‚ offering an alternative to television! From the first glance‚ it is immediately noticeable that this controversial advertisement is clearly very different from the traditional advertisements one would expect from Lego. It definitely has the parents as the target audience and is focusing on the parent’s fear of bad influences on their children. When one considers who the preferred‚ negotiated and oppositional readers would be as defined by Stuart Hall (Hall et al. 1980)
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