Media and its meaning

Chapter five in the book talks about the measnings in the media and how people interpret the meanings. The example that the books gives at the beginning of the chapter is the bruce springstien song "born in the U.S.A." and weather its a patrotic song or a song that talks about the the U.S. goverment treated the military and the vietnamese people during the vietnam war. People interpret everything they see and alot of the time. failures in communication happen everyday with what we see and hear. The example the book gives is a person sees two people are struggling in the streets and the person is deciding what to do. The person needs to figure out what he sees aree they just kidding around or is this a seroius fight. The world itaelf is meaningful in the seinse that if a person wlaks into a bedroom they will see a bed a dresser and maybe a desk and that person would reconize that there in a bedroom. There are two domains of meaning the world itself and what we see and the languages a person describes things is meaningful. Meaning is reprresentational and that is one of the to think of meaning. For example the exampple the book gives is the meaning of the word dog one thinks of a four-legged domestic animal that barks in the real world. But what is the meaning of ideas like justice or truth. what so they mean. if ones thinks about superman one ma think of juustice and truth because that image of superman and the ideas of justice and truth go hand in hand. Codes are also very important in finding and understanding meaninga code is a systematic organization or stucture of signs. Even though a code may appear diffrent from language to language in fact it is the same. To find the meaning of the media one has to interprete it with what they belive.