Marginalised/minority identity

You are going to create your own, second ‘identity’ case study on a minority or marginalised group.

Possible groups:Gypsy communityThose on benefitsLegal immigrantsLGBT community

Tips for finding relevant information

• Find 3 or 4 specific media texts that explore different representations of your chosen identity. Look for a range of differences in the texts that you choose as this will give you more to explore, analyse and compare. Such as:

positive/negative/stereotype/countertype produced by the under represented group/for the under represented group/for the

mass audience created by citizen journalists/established media etc• Choose media texts from different formats and platforms – online, TV, film etc. British

based please• Find regulations that might apply to the production of the text or consumption by the

audience. For example –laws and Acts, public service broadcasting remit, BBC producers guidelines, IPSO, OFCOM, ownership of the media text.

• Check the following for current information about contemporary media issues that may relate to your topic: www.broadcastnow.co,uk, the Media Guardian, radio 4’s media show podcast

• ANALYSE. Does this perfectly demonstrate or challenge one of the theories that we have explored? If so, what? Explain in detail. Can you make links and explain its connection to the key concepts? (Genre, Representation, Audience, Institutions, Narrative) or Ideologies or media forms?

LGBT Identity

A starting point:

• Explore ‘Queer theory’• ‘Cucumber’, ‘Banana’, ‘Tofu’• Look for possible articles from different print And online

publications. Consider who their target audience is to give yourself a wider perspective. Examples of texts created by and made for the marginalised community and those creating a representation of the LGBT community for a mass audience.

• Look at how audiences use new and digital media to create an identity – are they positive or negative?

• Regulation – which broadcasters create programmes that accurately/fairly represent the LGBT community

• The impact of citizen journalism/web 2.0/technological developments

Case study due:TUESDAY 14TH OF APRIL