Section B Guided Questions

How do contemporary media represent different collective groups in different ways?

• Main focus of the essay


• Diverse representations including fiction, non-fiction and self-representation


• Harry Brown, Fish Tank, The Inbetweeners, Attack the Block, The London Riots news coverage, The Internet& Self-Mediation

How does contemporary representation compare with that of the past?

• Examples needed for simularity and difference


• Examples from the past - Quadrophenia - the film and the representations of Mods and Rockers


• Have they changed? - Plate quote...

What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people?

• Stereotyping: what is its impact?


• What power does the audience have to 'resist'?


• Propaganda, Moral Panic, youth and an empty category, cultural hegemony, Stuart Hall and reading the texts and their messages


• Statistics on results of these representations and attitudes and beliefs vs. the reality of the issues

To what extent is human identity increasingly 'mediated'?

• Increasing media = increasing mediation?


• Re-presentation by others/by selves (Facebook/ YouTube (YouthTube))


• Be critical of who is offering the representations and for what purpose


• Mediated: How the media shapes your world and the way you live in it

Guidance:

1. Add your own personal opinion


2. What, in your opinion is the future of representations and what are you basing this on?


3. Connections must be made between examples/ contrasts are discussed


4. You must ember the theory into what you are saying

Examiner Advice: Structure

1. Introduction - start with a quote, paraphrase it (write out in own words), and link to issues of identity, representation, and the media. State your focus (social group and texts)


2. Historical example.


3. Contemporary examples.


4. Connect examples together.


5. Conclusion - return to start. Prediction for the future.

• Use referencing - name and year of publication given after first mention , e.g. Giroux, 1997


• Quote - Paraphrase - Critique


• One text older than 5 years


• Other texts should be from within the last 5 years


• Make a prediction for the future


• Structure: 'Example - Significance - Theory - Critique'

Mind Map: 'Analyse the ways in which the media representon group of people that you have studied'