While Tattoos can be seen by the people who get them as being self expressive, the social environment they live in can have a different reading of what their tattoos mean. (T/F?) correct answersTrue
Sociologists look to which group to seek better understanding of the new tattoo culture? correct ...
While Tattoos can be seen by the people who get them as being self expressive, the social environment
they live in can have a different reading of what their tattoos mean. (T/F?) correct answersTrue
Sociologists look to which group to seek better understanding of the new tattoo culture? correct
answersthe youth
While historically many women have sought tattoos as a way to transgress gender norms, contemporary
women increasingly seek tattoos as conventional markers of correct answersbeauty
Tattoos in the United States were heavily influenced by correct answersPolynesian tatto traditions
Comic Books & Graphic Novels can trace their roots to narrative art, such as paintings and sequential
images: (t/F?) correct answerstrue
The repetitive format and simplistic layout of panels and borders in comics pushed artists to get more
creative with their images and the storylines. (t/f?) correct answerstrue
The Comics Code Authority was made in response to which of the following? correct answersto create
"safe content" for children
The term "Semiotics" refers to ? correct answersThe field of study that explores how humans and other
organisms derive meaning from the world around us.
Icon, Index and Symbol are three categories of which of the following? correct answerssigns
According to Charles Sanders Peirce, an "Icon" directly resembles an object. For example, a painting of a
pipe is an icon representing a pipe. (t/f?) correct answerstrue
, The wheel is an extension of the foot, just as the book is an extension of the____________ correct
answerseye
According to McLuhan, artists are the only people that live in the present. (t/f?) correct answerstrue
Today, we are trapped by electronics: ads infiltrate, information is riddled throughout our day to day
experience. (t/f?) correct answerstrue
Media is neutral. It is simply there to be ingested, but it does not prompt us to respond or react. (t/f?)
correct answersfalse
The sensorium is which of the following: correct answersThe creation of the physical, biological, social
and cultural environments of the individual organism and its relationships while being in the world.
The "incomplete form" (such as a storyboard) allows audience participation to: correct answerscomplete
the idea/story
According to McLuhan: "Electrical information devices for universal, tyrannical womb to tomb
surveillance are causing a very serious dilemma between our claim to privacy and the community's need
to know." (t/f?) correct answerstrue
Marshall McLuhan believed that we look at the present through a rear-view mirror (t/f?) correct
answerstrue
According to the reading: "Climate Protest Signage: The Medium is the Message", it is important to know
who pop-cultural characters and references are (such as Abe Simpson from "The Simpsons") when trying
to decipher the message of public protest posters and signage.(t/f?) correct answerstrue
When applying the adage that: "Form and content are closely related in media" to climate protest, Neil
Andersen uses which of the following examples to prove his point? correct answersSigns that are:
Eloquent and simple and emphasize form and content
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