Respresentation

Question 1

Representation theory - Stuart Hall

Answer 1

• The idea that stereotyping, as a form of representation, reduces people to a few simple characteristics or traits.
• It occurs when there are inequalities of power and groups in society are excluded.
• Stereotypes can be reshaped into positive representations

Question 2

Identity theory - Gauntlett

Answer 2

• Everyone is an individual but people tend to exist in larger groups who are similar to them
• Media constructs and/or mirrors identities

Question 3

Feminist theory - Liesbet van Zoonen

Answer 3

• women are viewed as objects and sexualised
• mens bodies are viewed as something to achieve - spectacles

Question 4

Feminist theory - bell hooks

Answer 4

• women from minorities are underrepresented and face patriarchal oppression more than white women

Question 5

Theories of gender performativity - Judith Butler

Answer 5

• gender is a social construct
• gender is performative

Question 6

Theories around ethnicity and postcolonial theory - Paul Gilroy

Answer 6

• the effect of colonisation are still visable on the media today due to under representation