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 Q1

  • Need to revise the theorists
  • Revisit structure
  • Need to look for a way that the theory doesn't apply or is limited

Q2

  • Ignoring Macro comments
  • Use more specific media language terminology
  • Try to make connections between media language and representation
  • Don't ignore the second bullet point on the question, reaching conclusions on how far you agree
Q1- Applying representation to theorists
Hall- representations are constructed and contested. They are not fixed. This might particularly apply to representations which might go against dominant ideologies
Gilroy- Looks at the creation of a transatlantic black identity. Post colonial Also focuses on the way media "others" non-white representation
Van Zoonen- Gender is contextual and performative and women are seen as object and men as spectacles
Butler- Gender is not natural, it is culturally determined and performative
hooks- bell hooks believes that white, wealthy men upper class people control the media industries and their values and beliefs are the ones that are enforced in the media
Gauntlett- identity is not fixed, online media offers a route to self expression


Analyse the social representations portrayed in source a and source b

Use van zoonen in your response
the guardian do not support this theory as they do not report on the story in the same way

Van zoonens theory states that women are objectified in the media and men are viewed as spectacles, this is supported in the daily mails story on Angela Rayner where they accuses her of being seductive in parliament, likening her to Sharon stone in basic maneuver and choosing suggestive imagery 

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