Key terms around representation

  1. Male gaze– A concept in which men objectify women
  2. Voyeurism– An interest in watching people engage is personal, sometimes sexual activities where they do not know
  3. Patriarchy– A society dominated by males
  4. Positive and negative stereotypes– When a group/person is boxed into a stereotype and either receives positive or negative feedback from it
  5. Countertypes– Representation in which the stereotype is opposite to the person
  6. Misrepresentation– Giving misleading information
  7. Selective representation– Only showing some/not all the events of something so you don’t know everything that happened
  8. Dominant ideology– Attitudes, beliefs, values, and morals shared by the majority of the people in a given society
  9. Constructed reality– The way in which something is represented that allows media to be seen as a reality
  10. Hegemony– global dominance and influence of powerful commercial mass media organizations
  11. Audience positioning– The relationship between the text producer and receiver and how they react and respond to a text
  1. Fluidity of identity– The ability to change how you identify yourself
  2. Constructed identity– Identifying yourself differently to others by things you go through and things you have interests in
  3. Negotiated identity– The idea in which you come to an agreement of ‘who is who’
  4. Collective identity– A shared identification between people and groups

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