Topic: Representation

Paper details: In at least a paragraph for each answer two of the following questions. Use specific examples of media texts that you regularly engage with. For example, do you watch Dancing With the Stars? Monday Night Football? Do you play a certain game on your X-box. Do you listen a lot to Taylor Swift's new CD? Do you watch Fox News regularly. Use specific texts to illustrate your response. There are readings at the bottom of this re-post. Representation Overview The notion of 'representation' is one of the first established principles of media education. The media offers viewers a facilitated outlook of the world and a re-representation of reality. Media production involves selecting and combining incidents, making events into stories, and creating characters. Media representations allow viewers to see the world in some particular ways and not others. Audiences also compare media with their own experiences and make judgements about how realistic they are. Media representations can be seen as real in some ways but not in others: viewers may understand that what they are seeing is only imaginary and yet they still know it can explain reality. Studying media representations means looking at: Realism: Is this text intended to be realistic? Why do some texts seem more realistic than others? Telling the truth: How do media claim to tell the truth about the world? Presence and absence: What is included and excluded from the media world? Bias and objectivity: Do media texts support particular views about the world? Do they use moral or political values? Stereotyping: How do media represent particular social groups? Are those representations accurate? Interpretations: Why do audiences accept some media representations as true, or reject others as false? Influences: Do media representations affect our views of particular social groups or issues?[ http://www.mediaknowall.com/gcse/keyconceptsgcse/keycon.php?pageID=represent http://www.glyndwr.ac.uk/rdover/med-stud/realism_.htm http://honestreporting.com/7-principles-of-media-objectivity/ http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=21979 Google search on your own, just punch in some terms! So essentially, I believe the teacher wants us to answer two questions, and one paragraph for each one... Please let me know if I need to provide you with anything else. :)