Media Studies A-Level
Belonging and exclusion
What Belonging and exclusion means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Belonging and exclusion
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Media texts construct a sense of national belonging through shared language, symbols, national broadcasters, scheduling or narratives of common history, and you should also consider who is included and excluded from that imagined community.
Topics that use Belonging and exclusion
- Theories around ethnicity and postcolonial theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience negotiation and hybridisation
- Centre and periphery
- Cultural imperialism
- Dominant culture and marginalisation
- Imagined communities
- Marginalisation
- Media and collective identity
- Orientalism
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