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Representation (last assessment 2023) Typeit
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This exercise is designed to make us think more about ‘who’ the media represents on a regular basis.
Whenever a person is featured, or even referenced, in a media text, that person is being represented. It is common for media producers to use when representing individuals, i.e. they reduce them to a simplistic character type. It is often the case that, by constructing a representation of an individual, a media text also represents whatever that individual belongs to. Listed below are the key groups you are most likely to consider when talking about media representation.
- – Male, Female, Non-binary
- – Over 60s, 6–10, 18–25
- Social – A, B, C1, C2, D, E
- – Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer
- – Caucasian, Black African, Chinese
- – Muslim, Christian, Hindu
When it comes to the analysis of representation in the media, it is also useful to be aware of social and historical , as this tells us more about the circumstances that affected the way people thought about issues of representation in a particular time or place. For example, the representation of women in a text will often depend on the time when it was made. In the last 100 years, there have been four movements of , i.e. the active championing of women’s social and political rights. Therefore, representations of strong, independent and successful women have become common over time.