Any media-borne image or message can be analyzed in terms of its nature, including its symbolism and its effects. It can also be analyzed as a text, which refers to
A. literary works and other print media.
B. anything that can be read or processed, interpreted, and assigned meaning by anyone exposed to it.
C. anything that can be read but whose interpretation is determined by the producer of the text.
D. our capacity to codify information.
E. anything produced by mass media having commercial value.
Answer: B
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A) It lacked a centralized government. B) There was no evidence of infrastructure. C) The people still relied on broad-spectrum foraging for much of their food. D) There was little in the way of monumental architecture.
Actors, musicians, and dancers
A. distort and dilute the artistic mastery of other artists. B. function as parasitic consumers of the creative works of artists. C. are marginal members of artistic communities around the world. D. function as intermediaries who translate the works and ideas of other artists. E. are not artists, since they perform but do not create art.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The purpose of public interest ethnography, in Stryker's analysis in "Ethnography in the Public Interest," is to
a. study the motivations of policy makers. b. assess the costs associated with a policy. c. assess a policy from the perspective of those affected by it. d. discover inconsistencies in a policy.