Digipak 1There is a lack of text which along with the title “wonder” makes the person wonder as there is little detail this goes well with the picture of space on the CD as space is something that makes people wonder.

This digipak has a black theme and has all 4 artists on their own individual panel and has each of them characterized by a single colour.

Digipak 2

Kanye West is known for his eccentric acts and this is also evidence of that as within the hip hop genre it is extremely rare for a rapper to use a digipak rather than a pearl case. Kanye Collaborated with  Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami his art seems friendly and cartoonish at first but often have a dark undertones.

This album’s main character; the bear is a theme used by Kanye in his other album “late registration” and “The college dropout” the three albums all have theme of school life.

The colour used by Kanye is a surreal purple which ties in nicely with the main image on the digipak. Which is a bear being catapulted from the planet which seems to be the school which represents the album name “Graduation”

Digipak 3

This digipak has an overwhelming theme of blood and gore but it’s contrasted with an extremely sterile white.The most important part of this digipak is the ambiguous art of the hand covered in blood. The blood represents the title in the sense that the title contains the word “torture”

Stereotypes : Kanye West – Graduation

Graduation - Kanye West plays with the stereotype of a young african-american who’s dropped out of education . He manipulates this idea in this album "Graduation" because despite not have followed the path to success that graduating from college would have promised he has still some how managed to become a living legend in Hip-Hop. In a way Kanye West has flipped the stereotype on it’s head in a way creating a countertype.

Hegemony: is where the ruling class pass on their views and beliefs through the media to the working class who soak it up like a sponge this is a Marxist view.

Pluralism: Where society as a whole control the media and what it produces and it is down to the audience to view what they like.

I believe that the Media is both Hegemonistic and pluralist as the Ruling class control the media and therefore to an extent control how we consume our media but also the media is pluralist as it is down to the audience as to what media they consume.

Hegemony or Pluralism