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Which boxes below could you use for each of these questions?
1. To what extent do audiences use media to construct their own sense of collective identity?
2. “The media has replaced family, society and religion as the main source of collective identity.” Discuss.
3. How far does the representation of a particular social group change over time?
1. Media texts such as ____ represent teens/ gender as homogenous, reinforcing a
sense of solidarity and collective identity
2. Media texts such as _____ acknowledge the plurality of
gender identities/ teen identities OR Media texts
represent gender in binary terms, refusing the plurality of
gender
3. Media texts offer audiences socialisation
4. Media texts offer audiences a constructed
certitude, a reassurance of their own identity, and a
reassurance of how to behave
5. Audiences construct their identity through tribes,
collecting around cultural/ media experiences
6. Michel Maffesoli argues that there is a ‘proliferation of
lifestyle cultures’, meaning that we define our identities through the lifestyle we lead
7. Young people’s identity is increasingly postmodern: it
is fragmented, pick’n’mix, hybrid and fluid, and media
texts such as ______ acknowledge and reflect this change in the construction of
identity
8. Media texts reflect young people as seeking their true
identity, struggling to discover who they are, and using grand narratives of religion/ society/ family/ history/ community/ nationality to find who they
are. For young people, finding your identity is like a journey,
and media texts such as ______ recognise and represent this.
9.“Identities are not ‘given’ but are constructed and
negotiated.” "These [male] magazines are all about the
social construction of masculinity. That is, if you like, their subject-matter." (David
Gauntlett)
10. “a kind of false sisterhood that assumes a common
definition of womanhood or girlhood” (Angela McRobbie)
11. Female lifestyle magazines construct “The cult of
femininity”; “consciously cultivated female bond”
(Marjorie Ferguson)
12. Identity is “the unfinalised self” – a person can never be
fully revealed, finalised, labelled or known. (Mikhail
Bakhtin)13. Gender is performance: our
gender exists only in the way we behave and in the way we perform. It is a social construct
that is always fluid and changing. Gender is what you do, not what you are. (Judith
Butler)
14. Dr Linda Papadopolous Media affects the
psychological development of young people and leads to the sexualisation of young people
and anti-social behaviour.
15. “A magazine is like a club. Its first function is to provide readers with a comfortable
sense of community and pride in their identity” Janice
Winship
16. Glee/ Skins/ 17. Cosmo/ Glamour/ female listyle magazines
18. Nuts/ FHM/ Male lifestyle magazines
19. My So Called Life 20. Gay magazines 21. Other media texts you have studied
Take three colours, and use one colour per question. Then go through each box and decide if you could use it in an answer for each question, and colour the box in according to which
questions it could be used for. Some boxes may fit all questions.
Then use these boxes and other ideas to create an essay plan for each question.