Author: Xiangming
The Male Gaze: Gender Representation in Media
“Male Gaze,” first theorized by Laura Mulvey in her seminal work “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975),…
The Interplay of Encoding and Decoding in Communication
Encoding and Decoding are basic processes in media and communication, as elaborated in the seminal Encoding/Decoding model…
Netflix and the Culture Industry: Global Storytelling or Standardized Spectacle?
Introduction The Culture Industry, as developed by Adorno and Horkheimer (2002), questions how cultural products are now…
Which Version of Me is Real? Identity Masks in the Digital World
Each of us, on modern social media, exposes a carefully managed “digital self.” Be it on Instagram,…
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About Xiangming Huang
Hello everyone! My name is Xiangming Huang, and I’m 21 years old, born on May 31, 2003….