Exam Advice: Section B

Four sign posts have to include:

 Advice: Answer B first

How Do Contemporary Media Represent different collective groups in different ways?

L:O1: To start to link all the work together: drawing in theory and media texts

This must be the main focus of your essay!

Diverse representations including fiction, non fiction and self representation:

Harry Brown, Fish Tank, The inbetweeners, Attack the Blockm, The London riots news coverage, The Internet and Self mediation.

Hows does contemporary media representations compare with that of the past?

Examples needed for similarity and difference

Examples from the past- Quadrophenia-the film, and the representation of Mods and Rockers< Can use plato quote

Have they changed-Plato Quote?

Media producers are pushing the boundaires more as they need to shock us with representation, want to challenge us more.

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

Stereotyping: What its impact?

What power does the audience have to resist?

Propaganda, Moral Panic, Youth as empty categories, cultural hegemony, Stuart Hall and reading the texts and their messages.

Statistics on results of these representations of attidudes and beliefs vs the reality of the issues

Sensationalized.

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 it

Guidance:

Add your own personal opinion

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

Connections must be made between the examples/contrasts are discussed

You must embed the theory into what you are saying, high level answers link the ideas together

YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST REFER TO MORE THAN ONE DIFFERENT TYPE OF MEDIA< E.G. FILM AND NEWSPAPERS AND FILM AND INTERNET OR ALL THREE.

Examiner Advice Structure:

1.      Introduction-Start with a quote, paraphrase it, and link to the issues of identity, representation and the media.  State your focus (social groups and texts)

2.      Historical Example: Quadrophenia

3.      Contemporary Examples

4.      Connect examples together

5.      Conclusion-Return to Start, Prediction for the future, embed own personal opinion

Talk about a wider context, how they actually came about e.g. Quadrophenia, after the war rebelling against society for example. Thinking outside the box

Examiner Advice

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

2. Quote-paraphrase- critique

3. One text older than 5 years

4. Other texts should be within last 5 years

5. Make a prediction for the future

Argue with it/agree with it. If e.g. hyperdermic needle theory just need to apply it not explain what it is.

Exam Style Questions:

What are the social implications of the ways in which different media represent social groups?

o   Historical Representations:

·         Example-Significance-Theory-Critique

Contemporary Examples-Newspapers

·         Example-Significance-Theory-Critique

·         Contemporary Examples-Film

·         1.Example-significance-theory-critique

Contempory Examples-Television

§  Example-Significance-Theory Critique

§  Connections/Effects

ConclusionL

Return to the start

Summarize key idea

Prediction for the future

Mass media construct representations of youth from a middle class, adult perspective, for the idealogical purpose of maintaining hegemony

Impact of new media technologies/internet-more potential for self representation, limited impact compared to mass media.