key terms – representation

Male GazeThe idea of how men look at women and sexualise and objectify them.
Voyeurismthe interest in getting sexual pleasure from watching/engaging in sexual activity and nudity
PatriarchySocial system which states men take power and gain social privilege.
Positive and negative stereotypesthe traits and characteristics that link to certain social classes. (good and bad)
Counter-types a positive stereotype and emphasizes the positive features about a person or thing.
Misrepresentationsomething that misrepresents an object, idea, fact or person.
Selective representationonly presenting some ideas and fats but not all. selecting the good bits to put out but ignoring and leaving out all the bad.
Dominant ideology the attitudes, beliefs, values, and morals shared by the majority of the people in a given society
Constructed realityThat we construct and create our own reality and what we do affects the reality we’ve constructed.
Hegemonyleadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others
Audience positioningthe relationships between the audience and the text, how an audience receives, reads and responds to a text
Fluidity of identityhaving the ability to change how you see yourself, the world, and your actions.
Constructed identity conventional models of the person as a bounded or monadic individual with a fixed or essential identity
Negotiated identity the processes through which people reach agreements regarding “who is who” in their relationships
Collective identityall the cognitive and affective aspects deriving from belonging to certain groups with which adolescents identify themselves and which place them within certain social categories such as ethnicity, nationality, or gender

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