Changing/pos Representations Of UC

Question 1

Reiner

Answer 1

• recent media representations of wealthy people are being used to show examples of hard work, success and meritocracy
  Eg. mark Zuckerberg (became rich after creating Facebook shows achieved status and a result of meritocracy rather than ascribed)

Question 2

Strinati

Answer 2

• postmodernists think that we have a choice over what types of media that we consume.
• means that representations of social classes are changing because people don’t have access to traditional representations of class group unless they wish to because the media market is saturated and consumed with many different types of representations
  Eg. Wide range of streaming services we can choose such as Netflix