Media and Collective Identity: (Representation)

Topic Content Prompts

Media and Collective Identity

• ·      How do the contemporary media represent nations, regions and ethnic/social/collective groups of people in different ways?
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• ·      How does contemporary representation compare to previous time periods?
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• ·      What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people?
• ·      To what extent is human identity increasingly “mediated”?

Candidates might explore combinations of any media representations across two media, or two different representations across two media. Some examples are:

National cinema, television representations, magazines and gender, representations of youth and youth culture, post-9/11 representations of Islam, absence/ presence of people with disability in two media.