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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In the Semiotics of the Kitchen of Rosler‚ her image was simple and soundless‚ but it contained meaning of expression. There was a comment on Semiotics of the Kitchen‚ Rosler in Electronic Arts Intermix‚ once said: "when the woman speaks‚ she names her own oppression.”. In her art‚ just image of a women behind the kitchen counter
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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 is that of the death of a female police officer
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Semiotics Mind Map 1. Process school. Figure: See section 6. “’It sees communication as a process by which one person affects the behaviour or state of mind of another” Fiske (2011: 2) The Message 2. Semiotics Figure: See section 7. “The second school (semiotics) sees communication as the production and exchange of meanings” Fiske (2011: 2) Signification __? The message interacts with people on order to produce meanings The Message 3. Signs and Codes “Signs are artefacts or acts
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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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Hall (2003) proposed that culture that plays a primary role in how meaning is constructed. A basic genetic feature of human beings is the ability to classify‚ and a system of classification (the way in which we can conceptually group information) is learnt in society. Therefore‚ culture consists of our shared conceptual maps. ’Translatability is not given by nature nore fixed by the gods. It is the result of a set of social conventions.’ (Hall 2003). Over time‚ speakers of a culture have come
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1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 Discussion of Theory 3 2.1 Semiotic Analysis 3 2.2 Content Analysis 3 3.0 Methodology 3 3.1 Code Making 4 4.0 Results 4 4.1 1983-90 Results 5 4.2 2007-13 Results 8 4.3 Overall Comparison 12 5.0 Application 12 6.0 Conclusion 13 7.0 References 14 1.0 Introduction This essay draws on Semiotic concepts of dividing the object (Atkin 2013) and social semiotic analysis of visual communication (Leewun‚ Jewitt 2004) to investigate
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These images carry with them social meanings and myths. “Semiotics‚ or semiology‚ is the study of signs‚ symbols‚ and signification. It is the study of how meaning is created‚ not what it is.” (Semiotic terminology 2001‚ p.1) Through analysing the image semiology allows a cultural researcher to investigate the hidden social myths within texts and discover their shared meanings. This essay explains some of the terminology used in semiotics and the ideologies behind this image. The essay demonstrates
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In every day life we are surrounded with imaginative constructs about gender: magazines‚ billboards‚ books‚ games‚ TV. They teach us what is natural every day. Which tells us how men and women differ in so many different ways. Creating myths like “ You are not normal‚ if you won’t find anyone”‚ “You can’t be good without man”‚ many variations of “Beauty myths”. This essay will focus first on the film The Ugly Truth (Luketic‚ 2009) arguing about gender issues‚ furthermore the films The Princess Diaries
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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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