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Posted in 4. ‘Media Discourse’ Or ‘The male gaze’

Male gaze and Menhera girl

What’s the male gaze? The term “male gaze” first appeared in “visual pleasure and narrative cinema” by…

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Posted in 3. Manufacturing Consent’ Or ‘Ideas of encoding and decoding’

Manufacture consent for news during the pandemic

The propaganda model, which is presented by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, argued that mass media is…

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Posted in 2. ‘Medium theory’ Or ‘Construction of Identity in a digital world’

“TikTok brain” and “information Bubbles”: McLuhan’s lens on TikTok

Despite the criticism of McLuhan’s medium theory for its technological determinism, one of his critics, Raymond Williams,…

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Posted in 1. ‘Two Step Flow theory’ Or ‘Culture Industry’

Understanding a part of contemporary Chinese media: two-step flow theory

What’s the two-step media theory? Two-step media theory can be considered as one of the important theories…

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Posted in Blog Hello World

Self-introduction

Hello, my name is Sien Chen. I come from China, so my native language is Chinese. :3…