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“the medium is the message”
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the notion that each genre of media has its own set of features that suggest certain uses and types of content.
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community radio
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radio stations that are community owned and operated, staffed by groups of professionals and volunteers.
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cosmopolitanism
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worldly knowledge and sophistication, often associated with involvement in global forms of media.
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ethnographic film
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the use of film in ethnographic research, either as a method, a record, or a means of reporting on anthropological fieldwork.
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Faustian bargain
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the idea that a person can engage in evil supernatural activities in order to gain access to worldly desires such as wealth, sex, and/or knowledge.
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imperial gaze
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a set of conventions for how people in imperial or colonizing societies view the people and landscapes of subjugated territories.
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independent media
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forms of print and broadcast media that are privately owned.
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Indigenous media
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the use of media by Indigenous peoples for community identity, cultural representation, and activism.
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male gaze
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a set of conventions for how men look at women.
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mass media
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mechanically reproduced forms of communication targeting large audiences.
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media
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tools for storing and sharing information.
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media ideologies
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sets of ideas about the uses and functions of a particular genre of media.
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public sphere
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a domain of social life in which people represent, learn about, and discuss the important issues of the day.
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sakawa
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magically enhanced Internet fraud, mainly targeting foreigners.
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sociality
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participation in social relations; how people construct and maintain their personal and group relationships.
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soli
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short for
solidarity
; a small sum of money given by news sources to journalists at the end of an assignment in Ghana.
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state media
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forms of print and broadcast media that are financially supported by the state and subject to government control.
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technophilia
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the love of technology; characteristic of societies and eras of increasing technological innovation and its incorporation into everyday life.
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the gaze
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a specific mode of looking at images shaped by the identities of viewer and viewed.
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visual anthropology
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the use of visual media as a method of research or its study as a topic of research.
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voyeuristic
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describes a gaze aimed at people who do not know they are being viewed.