Manufacturing Consent

• Manufacturing consent is when mass media of the US are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system supportive propaganda function

Open System – Allows for people to communicate through the power of social media without having to be with them in real life

Closed System – Allows people to speak in a group, but does not allow you to communicate to everyone

What is the network effect?

Network effect describes the phenomenon how the value of a good or service increases as more people start to use that good or services. The internet is an example of the network effect.

What is the feedback loop theory?

Feed back loops provide information to an organisation about system successes and problems. Success results in a positive feed back loop

What is the Dunbar number?

Dunbar’s Number is a suggestive limit to a number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.

Hidden Figures is a movie that tackles a lot of race and gender stereotypes, this movie is clearly based in america because NASA is an American based company. The movie seems to be set in the late 20th century where race was a huge thing.

Hidden Figures is 2 hours and 7 minutes long. The movie is a 25$ million biographical drama film that is on a medium sized budget.

Conventions and Rules: Media conventions are rules or generally accepted ways of combining codes to create form and meaning within a media production.

Sub-Genre: A genre that is part of a larger genre the series is part of the blooming “urban fantasy” which features super natural creatures.

Hybridity: Hybridity is to be understood as a mixture of genres in a movie or anything that involves a genre(s).

Corpus: Corpus means a collection of facts and things. Corpus is associated with storage, indexing, search and delivery of multimedia data.

Repertoire of Elements: Repertoire are key elements of a film that are consistently repeated throughout a genre. Each genre has its own repertoire of elements which elements it as that genre.

Repetition and Sameness: This means that genre text producers walk a fine line between repeating successful formulas with only minor variations.

Variation and Change:

I think the missing relates to the theory of uses and gratification because some people like watching these kind of TV series because they enjoy the mystery and trying to find out where the missing person has gone and how the lead up is and potentially finding the missing boy in France.

Escapism is something the viewers seek for because when you are watching a show that you are interested in, you want to know what is happening and eventually you get so intrigued that you will put yourself in their shoes.

10 facts about “The Missing”

• The missing is a british anthology drama television series by brothers Harry and Jack Williams.
• The series was originally titled “The Breakdown”.
• The show began on the 28th of October 2014 and the last show was aired on the 30th of November 2016.
• In total there are 16 episodes.
• The most viewers the show averaged was 8.06 million viewers.
• The show has a 8.6/10 rating out of 28 viewers.
• The origin of this series is the United Kingdom
• It starred on “BBC One” and “Starz”
• The story is set near a British Army Garrison in Eckhausen
• The series has 10 executive producers and only 1 editor

• Positive/negative stereotypes:
  • Positive stereotypes are things that present a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea. Negative stereotypes are things which present a bad image or bad message about whatever the subject is.

• Counter types:
  • A counter type is similar to a positive stereotype, meaning it is an assumptions or a group of people which shows a positive trait. A counter type could be that all Indian people have to study to be a doctor.

• Misrepresentation:
  • Misrepresentation is when you present something and people misinterpret the message you’re trying to send to your viewers.