Like cause marketing, this cause branding strategy for the Campaign for Real Beauty “is merely a cleverly disguised ploy to mask some of the fundamental problems for which the very same marketing forces are directly or indirectly responsible.” Within this consumer context, commercial connotations are attached to ______.

Based on the Duck Dynasty show, the normalization of maleness and Whiteness contributes to these working-class subjects being constructed as ______, which lends itself to hegemonic narratives of rugged individualism, the suppression of class consciousness, and the maintenance of White male supremacy.

In the article, “The Year We Obsessed Over Identity”, Morris believes that our interactions with personal technologies (e.g., video games) have helped us create alternate or auxiliary persona.

The show Duck Dynasty discursively configures rednecks as authentically masculine and yuppies as feminine, which therefore implies the superiority of the former over the latter in this patriarchal context. Although the term yuppies commonly refers to young (White) urban professionals, family patriarch Phil Robertson applies the term to ______.

By presenting men as hopelessly inept in personal and professional matters, sitcoms cannot shape the idea that men are not supposed to be emotionally intelligent, responsible, or able to manage family dynamics well.

The Murray article advances that the Campaign for Real Beauty is a cause branding strategy that merges messages of corporate ______.

A feminist semiotic analysis suggests that, under a guise of corporate altruism that democratizes female beauty, Campaign for Real Beauty endorses ______.

Governments worldwide do not have an interest in regulating Facebook to protect citizens’ privacy, but they are also often complicit in using the platform for surveillance purposes.

Which of the following help shape our view of the world and our deepest values: what we consider good or bad, positive or negative, moral or evil?

Facebook epitomizes ________ capitalism, a term coined by Shoshana Zuboff, where user data is continuously harvested and commodified to optimize corporate profit.