theoretical framing in media studies

Form, Content and Context

Representation & Interpretation

Empowerment & Protection

Narrative, Literacy & Learning

Arts & Social Activism

KEY THEMES IN MEDIA STUDIES

Form, Content & Context

• Laura Mulvey• Douglas Rushkoff• Dan Chandler• David Weinberger• Lance Strate• Dana Polan• Jay Bolter & Richard Grusin

Form, Content & Context

• Martin Heidegger• Marshall McLuhan• Roland Barthes• Sigfried Kracauer• Christian Metz

Representation & Interpretation

• Walter Lippmann• Mikhail Bakhtin• Gordon Allport• Michel Foucault

Representation & Interpretation

• Stuart Hall• Raymond Williams• Slavoj Zizek• Cynthia Lewis• Michael Wesch• Bill Nichols• E. Ann Kaplan• Srivi Ramasubramanian

Empowerment & Protection

• Theodor Adorno• Herbert Marcuse• John Fiske• George Gerbner

Empowerment & Protection

• Russell Neuman• Joanne Cantor• Ron Huessman• Jennings Bryant • Mary Beth Oliver• Christine Greenhow• dana boyd• Doug Kellner• Henry Jenkins• Mimi Ito

Arts & Social Activism

• Bertholt Brecht• Simone DeBeauvoir• Noam Chomsky

Arts & Social Activism

• Henry Jenkins• Anita Sarkeesian• Jonathan MacIntosh• Sasha Costanza-Chock• Paul Mihailidis & Eric Gordon

Narrative, Literacy and Learning

• Vladimir Propp• John Dewey• Jerome Bruner• Neil Postman

Narrative, Literacy and Learning

• David Bordwell• David Buckingham• Sonia Livingstone• Lalitha Vaseduvan• Ernest Morrell• Renee Hobbs