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The Rise of OnlyFans: Empowerment or Reinforced Male Gaze?
OnlyFans and the Debate of Empowerment vs. Objectification OnlyFans has become a platform that allows women to…
Andrew Tate: Encoding Masculinity, Decoding Controversy
Who Is Andrew Tate and Why He’s Controversial Andrew Tate, a former kickboxer turned influencer, has become…
The Mask We Wear Online: Performing the Self in a Digital World
today’s digital age, the construction of personal identity has become increasingly complex. Platforms such as Instagram, TikTok,…
Fast Fashion and the Digital Economy: Social Media’s Influence
Fast Fashion has become one of the most visible outcomes of consumer culture, shaped largely by platforms…
Construction of Identity in the Digital Age: Who Am I Online?
Identity is an important aspect of human life; it reflects who you are and how you choose…
Male Monitor
BLOG 4: CHLOE CHAMBERS I titled this blog “Male Monitor” to show how the male gaze has…
The perfect Russian woman – The Male Gaze
In 1975 a British film theorist, Laura Mulvey published an essay called “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”….
The Male Gaze: Why It Still Shapes How We Look at Women Today
“The gaze from the male is a prejudice of invisible violence” I. Why do we need to…
Understanding the Male Gaze in Everyday Life
When I first learned the term male gaze, it sounded like something distant and overly academic. But…
Algorithmic Biases: When Technology Begins to Shape Reality
In an era where digital technology dominates daily life, we increasingly rely on algorithms to help us…
The male gaze
Understanding the Male Gaze: How Media Teaches Us to Look When you watch a movie, scroll through…
Ideas of encoding and decoding
Encoding and Decoding: How Messages Get Made—and Remade—by Audiences In everyday communication, we tend to assume that…
Understanding Medium Theory: Why the Medium Matters More Than the Message
When we think about communication, we often focus on what is being said — the words, ideas,…
The Culture Industries: How Creativity Became Big Business
In today’s world, culture isn’t just something we experience — it’s something we consume, share, remix, and…
From Manufacturing Consen to Encoding Decoding how the Media shapes what we think of as Common sense
What strikes me most when watching Manufacturing Consent is not how powerful the media is, but how…
Manufacturing Consent in Modern Media
As an important theory of media critique, manufacturing consent reveals how the media, under the influence of…
Medium Theory: The Impact of the Medium as Message
Medium theory has been an important framework for understanding the information society since the mid-20th century. With…
Is having a boyfriend embarrassing now? – Encoding & Decoding
Within the context of media and communications studies, this idea of distorted communication was proposed by the…
The Impact of the Cultural Industry: A Case Study of K-pop
As a concept proposed by by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer in Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), the…
Manufacturing Consent
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media (1988) remains one…
Decoding the Message: Stuart Hall’s insight into Media’s influence and Interpretation
What is encoding/decoding? In our daily lives, we encounter messages that are created by others, which we…
Manufacturing Consent in Modern Media Structures: Theoretical and Empirical Reflections From Wag the Dog
In today’s media environment, public opinion is often seen as an important foundation of democratic society. However,…
Manufacturing Consent in Everyday Scrolling
Herman and Chomsky’s idea of “manufacturing consent” may sound big and abstract, but it essentially involves how…
Manufacturing “Consent”
BLOG 3 : CHLOE CHAMBERS Manufacturing Consent is a book by Noam Chomsky and David S Herman,…