Media Studies A-Level
Cultural meanings and values
What Cultural meanings and values means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Cultural meanings and values
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A culture's shared meanings and values, which television circulates and reinforces through storytelling.
Topics that use Cultural meanings and values
- Cultivation theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Cultivated assumptions about the real world
- Cultivation theory
- Cumulative exposure and cultivation
- Distinction between standardisation and mainstreaming
- Media influence
- Television as storyteller
- Culture and norms
- Cumulative, long-term exposure
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