Texts are created for mass consumption oleh the producers, but the text and its ideas and storylines are disemminated, perceived and interpreted differently oleh us- the audience atau be it consumers. This leads us onto Stuart hall's encoding/decoding model.

For Hall, the encoding/decoding model is a concept he originally devised where he explains that through the transmission of ideas and messages in the texts, Hall proposed three ways of membaca and decoding texts: dominant, negotiated and oppositional. The dominant reading is where the viewer takes away that meaning from the TV tampil and accept...

Ugly is in is the last Ugly Betty fansite to dissapear online for good, which dissapointed many fan of the show, as they enquire about other places to find stuff on the show. Therefore, I thought I would put together a daftar of 10 alternative websites and fansites, in no ascending order that are worth checking out.

*NB: If there is a website that isn't mentioned on the list, then please feel free to share and add it on here and to let every other fan know about it :).

The Ugly Betty club on Fanpop- My favourite overall. The amount of fan it has is just staggering and it keeps on growing each...

NB: *this review was originally diposting on the michael urie online site last tahun and to coincide with the UK release of season 2 on dvd. since then the final mark has changed. btw, I re-submitted this review as it appears as if the original version appears to be lost on this site and that i could not retrieve it*

Ok, here it goes: personally speaking, I didn't enjoy it as much as the first season; for a dramedy, there was too much drama and not enough comedy and humour. The Betty/Henry/Gio storyline, whilst it provided much needed interest and drama for those benry and getty 'shippers, to an...

*NB: For those of anda who haven't seen the third season in its entirety, I would refrain from membaca this, as it might contain potential spoilers- Waiching*[b]

[b](US DVD release date: 22 September 2009)

(UK DVD release date: 7 December 2009)

Season 3 Synopsis -'The fashionable world of Ugly Betty continues to evolve in the complete third season that takes Betty to another life change as she grows up, moves into Manhattan and embraces her independence.'

With Ugly Betty there appears to be a different theme occuring in each season. Season 1 was mainly about Betty and her friendships with Daniel,...

We read gambar and pictures in an attempt to decode them and make sense of what they mean to us.

Semiotics is the study of signs but also of anything which stands for 'something else'. Signs can be anything: sounds, pictures, words, objects, hand gestures for example. Semiotics, which is also known as 'semiology' has been recognised and regarded as one of the main theoretical areas within media and cultural studies. I think this is because that we realise that there is lebih than one way of membaca a TV show, film, photo, poster. It is one thing describing what it looks like, but it is also another...