My Crossword Maker Logo
Powered by BrightSprout
Save Status:
or to save your progress. The page will not refresh.
Controls:
SPACEBAR SWITCHES TYPING DIRECTION
Answer Key:
Edit a Copy:
Make Your Own:
Crossword Word Search Worksheet
Rate This Puzzle:
Log in or sign up to rate this puzzle.

Concept Map - Bodies/The Body

Across
_______ is for someone, even if it is oneself, that measures and compares itself to an original script. It is the act of doing an activity, behaviour or action. In other words, it is a gesture. It is also showing doing which is an action, but is pointing to or referring to a current script. The individual has agency because they can decide how the scripts get altered. One can also never do the same performance twice. Critical thinker(s): Marvin Carlson, Richard Schechner. Example: Ascribing to gender roles, celebrating Oktoberfest, and being a “good” student.
The act of communication through sharing, participating, and associating with a common belief. This maintains society over time through a system of reaffirming shared beliefs. Out of the _______ and transmission view, the _______ is historically older and has existed in different forms for longer periods of time. Critical thinker(s): James Carey. Example: Going to church reaffirms beliefs with other people in the church or going to the movies reaffirms a type of preferred genre.
_______-bodies are vehicles of communication. They communicate a multitude of things simultaneously. One of the things communicated is how individuals exist in a space. Individuals’ movements are dictated on how that space is constructed. There is also a dominant discourse or ideology that is unique to _______ and are contingent on context. They also communicate a preferred subject. They organize people’s sense of space, but people are able to make meaning because they read the space and decide how they will respond. For example, they can either confirm the social ideas of the space or push against them. Critical thinker(s): Elizabeth Grosz. Example: A University student can either agree with the current space and pathways going to and from buildings or create new paths by walking on un-paved areas.
Can be either living or dead. It is a living system and an act with consequences. It is not fixed, but changes and morphed. It is also an act/thing/verb/practice that has deep and real consequences when not used properly. Living ________ is freedom of thought and expression, it is kind, it is fair, it is the ability to tell stories and share experiences, it is free from oppression, it is not hateful. Dead _______ is hurtful, one-sided, and does not allow for change or human potential. Critical thinker(s): Toni Morrison. Example: The word N***** is considered dead _______ because it is oppressive and no longer a politically correct way of referring to black people.
_________ in terms of communication theory is how one uses (their) ________ to create meaning, discourse, language, fill space, encode/decode messages, resist dominant ideologies, etc. The roots of this crossword in connection to all other terms. Central thinker(s): Foucault, Althusser, Debord, Baudrillard, Sontag, Naila Keleeta-Mae, Eugenia Flynn, Marvin Carlson, Richard Schechner, Elizabeth Grosz, Carey, Morrison, Lorde. Example: Using the body to be hailed by society.
People are already always within _______. Becoming a subject already happens before one’s existence. It is social and collective meanings that people inherent or unconscious processes that people enact without knowing that they do. It represents the “imaginary relationships of individuals” to the real world. _______ reflects dominant subjects that disempower individuals. The world is therefore structured by these illusions such as the idea that hard work leads to success and happiness, where in reality it actually serves a dominant interest for those in power. Critical thinker(s): Louis Althusser. Example: Practicing being a “good” student by listening attentively in class, raising one’s hand for a question, etc., may seem like common sense, but it is actually a way for the institution to regulate and control people.
Bodies as ________ is when life essentially functions for the purpose of consumption. Consumption is essentially all that one sees and there is very little that one does that does not function for consumption. We are a ________ to be consumed that are presented to others. We must do a lot of consuming and investing in oneself in order to appear a part of the consumer culture. How the body operates right now is very different from previous historical eras. The body will therefore reflect the social values at any given moment in time. Critical thinker(s): Jean Baudrillard. Example: In order to appear as the stereotype of a “white girl”, one must invest a lot of time and money into fulfilling this appearance such as buying Ugg Boots, buying expensive brand name clothing, taking time to do their makeup or hair, etc.
_________ making is a four step process. The first step is production. This is where the text is produced and the encoding begins. It is framed by drawing upon society’s dominant ideologies. The second is circulation. How the text is circulated depends on how the audience receives the message and puts it to use. The third step is use. This refers to the distribution or consumption of the text. The consumers must view the text as important discourse and then decoded. Finally, the last step is reproduction. This happens after the consumer has interpreted the text in their own way. The text may or may not be re-circulated at this point. Central theorist(s): Stuart Hall. Example: When a tweet goes out, the message is quickly produced, circulated, and consumed, but people can either choose to recirculate it by retweeting it, quoting it, etc. or they can choose to keep scrolling and do nothing with it.
Down
________ bodies oppose against the norms of a society and categorizations of people, are subject to dominant values, laws, and ideologies, and are either as a collective or individual body. _______ bodies try to shift the current discourse and create a conversation where people challenge the dominant norms of society. It is a type of performance that re-writes the current dominant scripts. Critical thinker(s): Naila Keleeta-Mae, Eugenia Flynn. Example: Beyonce’s music video called Formation.
Communication is a “symbolic process where ________ is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed”. The communication styles that people use constructs the way that they live. People not only construct their _______, but reconstruct it. Nothing is experienced as being “real” that does not first pass thought the act of communication. The world is unknowable unless there are systems to guide us, ways of organizing and interpreting emotions, ways to make meaning out of experiences. People create and express their knowledge toward _______ through the contraction of numerous symbolic systems such as journalist, science, art, etc. Critical thinker(s): James Carey. Example: Communicating only through text message creates a very technological reality.
______ reflect individual’s belief systems. They are also in the realm of making and allows individuals to understand how their communication practices show their truths. ______ is about how the stories and myths that individual’s circulate make a large impact on their public and private lives. Through sharing of ________ texts, individuals work out what they are thinking about the world. “There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt”. In other words people are always circulating the same narratives, same wars, the same feelings of love and excitement, but language allows people to feel them differently. _______ are a challenge, fight, and battle against the issues that arise when the literacy world is dominated by the privileged. Critical thinker(s): Audre Lorde. Example: Circulating a meme demonstrates how individuals make meaning of their world. In the movie Twilight the vampire stands for a superhuman and a predator while the wear wold stands for someone who is poor, bodily, radicalized, and Indigenous. She chooses the vampire who is disembodied meaning that women should get in bed with wealth.
_________ is an instrument of how power is enacted. It both transmits and reduces power, while producing knowledge and value systems of truth that benefit some over others. It governs what can be said and how people think and communicate. It emerges out of relations of power from those that control institutions because ________, power, and knowledge together create hierarchies that are either truthful or marginalize and stigmatize others. Critical thinker(s): Michel Foucault. Example: Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
_______ is how individual’s relationships are mediated by images. The real world becomes an image or images. People see the images as being more truthful and real than the actual lived world around them. There is a risk that reality becomes an object or a way of unifying false consciousness. It is through images that the false conscious illusions circulate and re-circulate as “life as we know it”. Through _______, people change from being a citizen, to a consumer. Images can be used for consumption, even though it looks like they are being used for another person. It is about ensuring that commodity is all that one sees. It almost becomes impossible to tell fact from fiction. Critical thinker(s): Guy Debord. Example: A girl taking a picture of herself in her Louis Vuitton shoes and posting it on Instagram to show that she is part of the consumer culture, when in reality, that pair of shoes may not actually make her as happy as she appears to be because they put her in debt or are really uncomfortable.
_______,or interpellation, is when some form of communication “calls out” people while offering a specific identity which they can accept. Individuals are interpellated from the day that they are born and perhaps even before. There is not meaning in the individual, but rather a subject who comes into existence when they are interpellated by an ideology. Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs) and Repressive State Apparatuses (RSA) are a form of _______ that the subject is influenced and effected by. An ISA is situated where there is a threat to enact violence on a subject such as the law, police forces, the government, etc. An RSA creates people as a subject not thought fear, but common sense ideas that one believes to be true such as the church, the media, family, etc. Critical thinker(s): Louis Althusser. Example: Pictures in magazines or advertisements of girls playing with dolls is gender interpellation.
________ today is the act of creating an image that is to be consumed by people who are utterly detached. It can be used to create an illusion of appearing which may distort the real truth (spectacle). It is used as tool to validate existence in the world. Critical thinker(s): Susan Sontag. Example: Pictures as advertisements are good examples of how ________ is used to create a consumer culture where individuals want to consistently have the next best thing. The photo may be taken to make it seem like any individual will best just as happy as the actor that is drinking that Coca Cola can when in reality, for most people, a can of pop does not fix all their problems.