Representation and stereotypes: blog tasks

 1) Write a definition of representation in media studies. Clue: The answer is in the notes above!

Representation: how groups or events or individuals are presented / portrayed.


2) Now look at the cover of Closer magazine above. List all different types of people and groups represented on the front cover. E.g. women, celebrities, race/ethnicity etc.

White powerful women/celebrity's are shown on the closer magazine cover.

3) What does the representation of women on this front cover suggest female audiences are mainly interested in?

 people lives Gossip about other celebrity's

4) Are there any stereotypes you can identify? E.g. women and motherhood; celebrities etc.

There are some mothers on the cover of this magazine. 

5) Is there anything on the cover that subverts typical stereotypes in the media?

yes on the magazine cover there is mini title about the uk first gay dad

6) What is the preferred reading of this magazine cover - what do the producers want audiences to think when they see it?

The producer wants the audience to be interested by the front cover and buy the magazine

7) What is the oppositional reading of this magazine cover - how might someone criticise this magazine cover or be offended by it?

people might criticise the magazine because it is interfering with people lives it is evading someones privacy and causing issue for the person  

8) What are the social and cultural contexts to this magazine cover? What effect might this magazine have on readers or society?

this magazine will up people self-esteem and make people take care of them self because they heard someone else who had a amazing story  

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