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