Media and Collective Identity

Today we looked at Media and Collective Identity as revision for our June Exam.

Media and Collective Identity

“Identity is complicated- everybody thinks they’ve got one.”-David Gauntlett

“A focus on Identity requires us to pay closer attention to the ways in which media and technologies are used in everyday life and their consequences for social groups.”

-David Buckingham

What do you need for the exam?

• Social group as a case study- examples
• At least two different media (films/television)
• Understanding of and reference to theory/cultural critics
• Your own voice!/others

What is Collective Identity?

• Representation: The way reality is ‘mediated’ or ‘re-presented’ to us.
• Collective Identity: The individual’s sense of belonging to a group (part of personal identity.)

How do contemporary media represent different collective groups in different ways?

• Focus: young people
• Diverse representations including fiction, non-fiction and self-representation
• For the exam, your own examples from the group you are studying will gain you marks.

How does contemporary representation compare with that of the past?

• Today: young people on TV/online and in film-mainly contemporary
• Examples needed for similarity and difference
• Examples from the past

What are the social implications of different media representation of groups of people?

• Stereotyping: what is its Impact?
• What power does the audience have to ‘resist’?
• How do we ‘measure’ the representations we encounter?

To what extent is human identity increasingly ‘mediated’?

• Increasing media = increasing mediation?
• Re-presentation by others/by selves.

FILM

• Fish tank- Andrea Arnold
• This is England- Shane Meadows
• Goodbye Charlie Bright- Nick Love
• Withnail and I- Bruce Robinson
•  Quadrophenia
• If- Lindsay Anderson
• Clockwork Orange- Stanley Kubrick

G325: Critical perspectives in media exam outline Section A

Introduction

• The purpose of this unit is to assess your knowledge and understanding of media concepts, contexts and critical debates
• You are to show your understanding of media issues and evaluate your own pratical work in reflective and theoretical ways.

-Two hours
-Answer two questions on own production work and one question from a choice of six topicareas.

Section A: Theoretical Evaluation of Production

Describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of your production work, from AS to A2.

• Question 1a: Identify one production and evaluate it in relation to one theoretical concept.

-SKILLS DEVELOPMENT      -Research of real media texts
-Media representation (use for own work, AS to A2)
-Digital technology                   -Post production
-Creativity                                -Research and Planning
-Using conventions from real media texts.

•  Question 1b: Requires you to select one production and evaluate it in relation to a media concept.

-Genre              -Audience      -Narrative      -Representation       -Media Language

JUST ONE!