Defining Gender 'Sex' refers to the biological differences between men and women, whereas 'gender' refers to the cultural roles of...

What is Subculture? Subculture goes back to the 1800s and early studies refer to it as as deviant groups or urban underclass. It is also...

Comic books consist of a set of unique graphic signs that artists use to tell a story, and these are easily accepted and understood by...

Advertising and Myth Advertisements have currency; they are of the now and are particular to time and place. They reflect the current...

Planes of Expression and Abstraction Words are arbitrary signifiers; they don't resemble what they describe and they require the...

Structuralism and Semiotics 'Structuralism' refers to the theory that the way we communicate starts as a blank slate and that the culture...

Culture in the 1980s is considered to have two categories; official and unofficial. ​Official cultures refers to the mainstream, more...

Herb Lubalin Due to not being given a blog task for this session, I chose to do look a little more into Herb Lubalin's work who was an...