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Representation in the Media
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A discussion on how the media represents a variety of
groups of people and issues.
Men, women, ethnic groups, sexuality, occupation, class, region, status, age groups — all have been ascribed sometimes misleading identities from the news media and other forms of entertainment. This resource provides concrete examples of the reasons behind bias, stereotyping and moral panics and makes links between these and phenomena and the audiences that consume them.
Includes: Worksheets, Case Studies, Case Histories, Textual Analysis and Research Tasks. Muslims and the Media Die Hard and Masculinity Advertising and Gender Young People and Crime Cross-referenced to current (up to summer 2009) and new (from September 2008) exam board specifications: AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC. |