Media and collective identity answering the exam questions

Media and collective identity answering the exam questions

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  Media and CollectiveIdentity Answering the exam question
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  This presentation willgive you guidance on possible exam questions and how you can use what we have studied in class to get the best possible mark.
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  Any ideas whythis might be important for the Collective Identity unit?
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  Media and CollectiveIdentity: Exam Questions
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  How do contemporarymedia represent different collective groups in different ways? • focus today: young people • diverse representations including fiction, non-fiction and self-representation • for the exam, your own examples from the group you are studying will gain you marks
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  How does contemporaryrepresentation compare with that of the past? • today: young people on TV/online and in film- mainly contemporary • examples needed for similarity and difference (Eden Lake, Misfits and Harry Brown) • examples from the past (Quadrophenia and Press Gang) • Fan cultures from the past (e.g. Star Trek fans creating films, fanzine culture of the 1980s, representations of rave culture of the 1990s)
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  What are thesocial implications of different media representations of groups of people? • stereotyping: what is its impact? • what power does the audience have to ‘resist’? • how do we ‘measure’ the representations we encounter? • Richard Dyer: ‘Typography of Representation’ • Social Media and Social Action: The Arab Spring, The Harry Potter Alliance – groups that use social media for political and social action. How do these groups defy the top-down nature of traditional media ownership?
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  To what extentis human identity increasingly ‘mediated’ ? • increasing media = increasing mediation? • re-presentation by others/by selves • Facebook study: personal identity and the perfomative nature of Facebook photos and updates