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