representation

Question 1

Theories of representation - Stuart Hall - How representations are constructed.

Answer 1

-Representation = product of meaning through language.
-Stereotyping = reduces people and things to a few simple characteristics or traits.
- Stereotyping occurs where there is a disparity of power.
-Subordinated/excluded groups being different.

Question 2

Theories of identity - David Gauntlett - Helps us to construct our identities.

Answer 2

-media provides us with ‘tools’ and resources that we use to shape our identities.
-as the mediated world gas become more complicated we now have a wide range of media models (pick and mix of different ideas we can choose from).

Question 3

Feminist Theory - Liesbet van Zoonen - gendered constructed through discourse.

Answer 3

• Gender changes depending on cultural and historical context.
  -Objectification of women’s bodies is core to Western patriarchal context.
  -Codes used in mainstream media constructed for male bodies are different from the objectification female body.

Question 4

Theories of gender perfomativity - Judith Butler - identity is a performance.

Answer 4

-identity is constructed by the very “acts” or “expressions” that are thought to be its results.
-no inherent gender identity behind the expression of gender.
-perfomativity is repetitive and ritual.

Question 5

Theories around ethnicity and post colonial theory - Paul Gilroy - the legacy of colonialism and imperialism.

Answer 5

• colonial discourses continue to inform contemporary attitude to race and ethnicity.
• civillisationism constructs racial hierarchies and sets up binary opposition based on notions of “otherness”.