Media Studies A-Level
Centre and periphery
What Centre and periphery means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Centre and periphery
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The placing of some groups at the centre of a text and others at its edges, judged through screen time, speaking roles, occupational status and framing.
Topics that use Centre and periphery
- Theories around ethnicity and postcolonial theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience negotiation and hybridisation
- Belonging and exclusion
- Cultural imperialism
- Dominant culture and marginalisation
- Imagined communities
- Marginalisation
- Media and collective identity
- Orientalism
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