Critical Approaches to Creative Media Products: Session 1 Establishing the key terminology of Unit 6.2

Monday, 31 October 2016

Session 1 Establishing the key terminology of Unit 6.2

The aim of this session is to establish the key terminology of Unit 6.2 how media producers create products for specific audiences.

In this session we will

Recap elements of unit 6.1 how media producers define audiences for their products.
Review the assignment brief and in particular Task 1

In groups you will rotate around three tasks.

Compare Two Newspapers
Analyse Magazine layouts
Set up your own blogs
Write up tasks onto you blogs

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Key Terminology Unit 6

Circulation: is a count of how many copies of a particular publication are distributed. Circulation audits are provided by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC).

Readership: is an estimate of how many readers a publication has. As most publications have more than one reader per copy, the NRS readership estimate is very different from the circulation count.

Codes: are systems of signs, which create meaning. Codes can be divided into two categories – technical and symbolic.

Conventions: are the generally accepted ways of doing something

Semiotics, or semiology, is the study of signs, symbols, and signification. It is the study of how meaning is created, not what it is.

Signifier: any material thing that signifies, e.g., words on a page, a facial expression, an image.

Signified: the concept that a signifier refers to.
Together, the signifier and signified make up theSign: the smallest unit of meaning. Anything that can be used to communicate (or to tell a lie).

Symbolic (arbitrary) signs: signs where the relation between signifier and signified is purely conventional and culturally specific, e.g., most words.
Iconic signs: signs where the signifier resembles the signified, e.g., a picture.

Indexical Signs: signs where the signifier is caused by the signified, e.g., smoke signifies fire.

Denotation: the most basic or literal meaning of a sign, e.g., the word "rose" signifies a particular kind of flower.

Connotation: the secondary, cultural meanings of signs; or "signifying signs," signs that are used as signifiers for a secondary meaning, e.g., the word "rose" signifies passion.