David Gauntlett: Identity and Billie Eilish
Develop your understanding of the key concepts in identity by analysing this magazine cover featuring Billie Eilish.| Media Studies
Develop your understanding of the key concepts in identity by analysing this magazine cover featuring Billie Eilish.| Media Studies
Explore the bardic function of television and how broadcasts reflect and reinforce culture through the messages communicated to the audience.| Media Studies
Learn about mythemes and how culturally important myths can reveal our values and ideology in our guide to Claude Lévi-Strauss' theory.| Media Studies
Explore the science of language and how meaning is determined by the relationships between signs in our guide to langue and parole.| Media Studies
Develop your understanding of Vladimir Propp's character types by investigating the spheres of action in this popular computer game.| Media Studies
Read our guide to the cultivation theory, including definitions and examples of enculturation, mainstreaming, resonance and socialisation.| Media Studies
Find out more about Baudrillard's concepts of simulacra, simulation, implosion and hyperreality with our examples and analysis.| Media Studies
With examples and practice questions, our guide will help develop your understanding of Saussure's sign theory.| Media Studies
Introduction to Stuart Hall's reception theory, including definitions and examples of encoding/decoding and framework of knowledge.| Media Studies
Get some exam practice and develop your understanding of Barthes' signification process and the key concept of myth.| Media Studies
Find out more about ideology and how values and beliefs are encoded into media texts with our guide to this semiotic concept.| Media Studies
Learn more about Roland Barthes's five narrative codes: hermeneutic, proairetic, semantic, symbolic and cultural codes.| Media Studies
Our introduction to this key concept will develop your understanding of how signs are used in media texts to construct meaning.| Media Studies
Understanding the difference between the referent and other aspects of sign systems is essential for close analysis of any media text.| Media Studies
Definitions and examples of Roland Barthes' two fundamental themes of photography (the studium and punctum) from Camera Lucida.| Media Studies
