Key Concepts

These are some of the key concepts from the Television Studies: The Key Concepts

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ak4zQHXTcX4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=television+key+concepts+bernadette&hl=en&ei=9b4hTd-0NIO0hAe4sJG4Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Audience

Documentary

Educational television

Hegemony

Hyper reality (Jean Baudrillard)

"The simulation of something which never really existed."

Institution

Mediation

Narrative

Pleasure

Realism

Reality TV

Representation

Structuralism (Ferdinand de Saussure)

The relationship between objects (signified) and its meaning (signifier) a a system of meanings, a generic understanding used in all texts. This has links to semiotics e.g. red means anger or passion and this is understood by many people who consume texts.

Post-structuralism (Ferdinand de Saussure)

Rejects structuralism- Nothing can be represented as "real" or the truth. Meanings of objects cannot be fixed: polysemic. This suggests there is no system of meanings.

Uses and Gratifications