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THE ROLE OF DISCOURSE IN POLITICS – MEDIA DISCOURSE

INTRODUCTION Michel Foucault, a French philosopher and social theorist, has significantly influenced the study of media discourse…

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The presence of Male Gaze in music videos…

What is Male Gaze? Male Gaze is a feminist theory that claims that women are sexualized and…

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The Male Gaze

The male gaze theory comes from Laura Mulvey. (Loreck, 2016) The theory discusses ways in which females…

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Trivialisation and the Male Gaze

Across media discourse, Laura Mulvey can be used as a stimulus to explore the concepts and ideals…

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Whether the power of media discourse is everywhere

In the past, the voice was held by only a few people and institutions with power. But…

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What is the male gaze in a patriarchal society

What is the gaze: The term gaze was coined by Lacan and extended by Foucault, where the…

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Unraveling Discourse: From Theoretical Foundations to Social Media Realities

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination. Bryant H. McGill Diversity…

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Male gaze

The male gaze is a notion that is used in feminist theory to describe the depiction of…

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Male Gaze

The concept of ‘Male Gaze’ was proposed by art critic Laura Mulvey in the last century. At…

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The Male Gaze.

The Male gaze refers to the way media often portrays women from a heterosexual male perspective. Which…

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MALE GAZE

John Berg begins his book, Ways of Seeing, by writing, ‘Seeing comes before words. The child looks and…

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Discourse about women in F1: how gender stereotypes affect women in motorsports

Formula One is notoriously a male-dominated sport. Though no rules restrict women from racing in the same…

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Media discourse and online violence

With the continuous development of digital media, more new types of social media have emerged. People are…

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4; Doctor Who and The Male Gaze

Doctor Who is a long running British sci-fi series with an extremely long and convoluted history. With any long running series you are bound to find skeletons in it’s closet.

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Male Gaze

Intro: Male gazeis a socio-cultural phenomenon defined as women being seen as the second sex. At the…

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The Presence of Male Gaze in Video Games

Film theorist Laura Mulvey argues that Hollywood tends to portray the heterosexual men as dominant and more…

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“male gaze”

I. Definition of male gaze “Male gaze” is a social phenomenon, which refers to the observation, evaluation…

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The male gaze of the movie industry

About “Male Gaze” “Male Gaze” was introduced by scholar and filmmaker Laura Mulvey in her now famous…

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Mass media balances the discourse of the mainstream media

This lecture combines media discourse and “panopticon.” The concept of the “Panopticon” was developed by Foucault and…

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Blog 4 : How male gaze has affected movies and music industry.

WHAT IS MALE GAZE? In a nutshell, the Male Gaze theory states that women in the media…

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Manufacturing Consent

Walter Lippmann ‘refers to the management of public opinion’ (Oxford reference) by using the phrase ‘manufacturing consent’….

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Real-life examples of Ideas of Encoding and Decoding…

What is Encoding and Decoding? Encoding is where a message is converted into a different code or…

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Manufacturing Consent.

The title Manufacturing Consent refers to the 1988 book “Manufacturing Consent The Political Economy of Mass Media”…

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Emojis, Social Semiotics : Why we love them so much?

With the lack of physical presence that is necessary to truly understand the undertone of online exchanges…