Ideological criticism

a. focuses on the ways media institutions and texts serve the interests of the dominant
social and political elite classes.
b. views criticism as a means of stimulating material changes in living conditions and
societies.
c. is as concerned with media as sources of empowerment as with media as vehicles of
domination.
d. believes that media texts can be innocent sources of pleasurable entertainment.
e. often is typically explicitly evaluative and confrontational


a, b, e

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