3.1 Digital Media & Identity

Question 1

(Class) which class have strongest sense of identity?

Answer 1

Upper class

Question 2

(Class) bourdieu says the upper class have what?

Answer 2

Cultural and social capital

Question 3

(Class) what is cultural capital?

Answer 3

Activities and knowledge

Question 4

(Class) what is social capital?

Answer 4

Who you know

Your contacts

Question 5

(Class) social closure is used to keep who out?

Answer 5

Those of a lower class

Question 6

(Class)how is social closure achieved?

Answer 6

Intermarriage

Education at top public schools

Question 7

(Class) strinati - how does the media provide access to upper class culture?

Answer 7

Blurring of high culture and popular culture

E.g. Novels like dickens made into film

Question 8

(Class) class is becoming less what?

Answer 8

Important/significant

Question 9

(Gender) Connell - what are hegemonic gender ideals?

Answer 9

Dominant ideas about the behaviour of a person of a certain gender
E.g. Men should be strong

Question 10

(Gender) how are hegemonic gender ideals reinforces through the media?

Answer 10

Advertising

Celebrities lifestyles

Question 11

(Gender) Wolf - the media reinforces what?

Answer 11

A beauty ideal for women

Question 12

(Gender) Mulvey - what is the male gaze and how is it related to the media?

Answer 12

The way the camera eyes up women
Games sexualising women
Adverts featuring young women

Question 13

(Gender) give examples of reinforced gender ideals in the media:

Answer 13

Models in magazines

Photoshop

Question 14

(Gender) give examples of gender ideals being challenged in the media:

Answer 14

Haraway cyborg theory

Question 15

(Age) what is childhood seen as?

Answer 15

Innocent

Question 16

(Age) children are viewed as vulnerable and in need of what?

Answer 16

Protection

Question 17

(Age) how is the idea of children being need of protection reinforces through the media?

Answer 17

Net nannies - blocking sites
Parental control
Censorship

Question 18

(Age) but what does palmer say childhood is becoming in relation to digital media?

Answer 18

Toxic - children being babysat by technology

Question 19

(Age) what does postman say is happening to childhood relating to digital media?

Answer 19

Disappearing

Children exposed to adult content online

Question 20

(Age) are youth subcultures made stronger or weaker through the media?

Answer 20

Stronger

Question 21

(Age) how are youth subcultures becoming stronger through media and what is less relevant?

Answer 21

Can share knowledge and create networks online

Age is less relevant

Question 22

(Age) what do featherstone and hepsworth say old people are forced to wear?

Answer 22

The mask of old age - feeling here is a certain identity you have to take on when you reach old age

Question 23

(Age) what does media allow older people to do?

Answer 23

Resist the mask of old age