representation theorist names

Question 1

representation
* the idea that representation is the production of meaning through language, with
language defined in its broadest sense as a system of signs

Answer 1

Stuart Halls

Question 2

Identity
* the idea that the media provide us with ‘tools’ or resources that we use to construct our
identities

Answer 2

David Gauntlett’s

Question 3

feminist
* the idea that gender is constructed through discourse, and that its meaning varies
according to cultural and historical context

Answer 3

van Zoonen’s

Question 4

Intersectionality
* the idea that feminism is a struggle to end sexist/patriarchal oppression and the ideology
of domination

Answer 4

bell hooks’

Question 5

Gender Performativity
* the idea that identity is performatively constructed by the very ‘expressions’ that are said
to be its results (it is manufactured through a set of acts)

Answer 5

Judith Butlers

Question 6

ethnicity and post colonialism
* the idea that civilisationism constructs racial hierarchies and sets up binary oppositions
based on notions of otherness.

Answer 6

Paul Gilroy’s