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All groups
- Butler and Fiske both discuss Stuart Hall's theory of media encoding and decoding. What do these terms mean? (Butler discusses it in the section of chapter 13 on ideology.)
- Fiske then discusses "three broad reading strategies" to account for how decoding operates. (Butler refers to the same principle as "different ideological positions".)
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- Fiske then discusses "three broad reading strategies" to account for how decoding operates. (Butler refers to the same principle as "different ideological positions".)
- Fiske paraphrases David Morley: "Morley defines reading a television text as that moment when the discourses of the reader meet the discourses of the text" (302).
Group 4
- Perform a dominant reading of My So-Called Life. What would be the result of your reading in terms of representations of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and youth (vs. middle age)?
- How could your reading be restated using Morley's notion of discourses encountering one another?
Group 2
- Perform a oppositional reading of My So-Called Life. What would be the result of your reading in terms of representations of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and youth (vs. middle age)?
- How could your reading be restated using Morley's notion of discourses encountering one another?
Group 1
- Perform a negotiated reading of My So-Called Life. What would be the result of your reading in terms of representations of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and youth (vs. middle age)?
- How could your reading be restated using Morley's notion of discourses encountering one another?
Group 3
- What do you feel is the preferred reading of this episode? What is the preferred reading in terms of representations of gender and sexuality, ethnicity, and youth (vs. middle age)?
- How could the preferred reading be restated using Morley's notion of discourses encountering one another? And how well does the preferred reading fit with your own personal reading?
Bibliography
- Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Mahweh, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.
- Robert C. Allen, Channels of Discourse, Reassembled, second edition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992).