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Year 10 Media Studies (GCSE)
Representation
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Monday 19th
September 2011
LO: To understand how people, places andevents are represented in the media
Keywords: Stereotype; Bias; Realism
Do NOW!
It is not possible to talk about ‘true’ representation in the media.
Do you agree or disagree?
Write a paragraph explaining your answer using examples.
(Consider news stories, documentaries, ‘reality’ TV shows etc)
Representation
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• Representation is concerned with the
way that people, ideas and events are
presented to us.
• This could be representation in
magazines, news, soap operas, films and
so on.
• It may include representation of people,
places, events.
What is REPRESENTATION?
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Realism
A television documentary, for example, appears tooffer us a representation of the world as it exists.We call this ‘realism’. But we also look upon soapoperas as examples of realism, although they areworks of fiction performed by actors.
The Treachery of Images
1928-9
Rene Magritte
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Activity – whose truth?
1.With the person sitting next to you…
2.Google images of either Chris Brown or LindsayLohan
3.Select one photo that you think they would liketo use to represent themselves (for a Facebook
profile for example)4.Select one photo that you think their parents
would like to use to represent them
5.Select one photo that the paparazzi would like
to use6.Put the images on a PowerPoint slide
7.Answer: Which represents the real person? Howis representation biased in the media and why?
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Consider what these pictures reflect.
Why is representation important?
What factors influence the production of representations?
What effect does it have on society?
REPRESENTATION and BIAS
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WOMEN IN THE MEDIA
Brainstorm:
How are women represented in the media?
(For example - are they generally theheroes in Action films?)
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WOMEN IN THE MEDIA
Find some examples of how women arerepresented in a negative way in advertising,
this can be in print or television. Add them toyour PP presentation.
Answer:
•Why are they negative?•Are there any that represent women in apositive way?•Why have advertisers taken this new approach?
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STEREOTYPE
Look up the definition andwrite it in your books.
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STEREOTYPE
List as many media stereotypes as possible.
Here are some words to help (stereotypes are often offensive):
Old peopleObese peopleSuccessful businesswomenHomosexualsCountry peopleChristian people
Muslim peopleJewish peopleTeenagersPosh people
On your PP presentation, create a collage of these media
stereotypes
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STEREOTYPING –
DISABILITY IN THE MEDIA
Consider popular television shows
In your books answer:
•How many people with disabilities are portrayed?
•How old are they?
•What story-lines are they involved in?•What conclusions can you draw about thestereotyping of people with disabilities on thesesorts of programmes?
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For analysis
• Richard Dyer (1983) posed a few questions when
analysing media representations in general.
• 1. What sense of the world is it making?
• 2. What does it imply? Is it typical of the world or
deviant?
• 3. Who is it speaking to? For whom? To whom?
• 4. What does it represent to us and why? How do werespond to the representation?