Media Studies A-Level
Dominant culture and marginalisation
What Dominant culture and marginalisation means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Dominant culture and marginalisation
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The concern that media may reduce cultural plurality to a single dominant culture, showing groups as exotic, marginal or absent.
Topics that use Dominant culture and marginalisation
- Theories around ethnicity and postcolonial theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience negotiation and hybridisation
- Belonging and exclusion
- Centre and periphery
- Cultural imperialism
- Imagined communities
- Marginalisation
- Media and collective identity
- Orientalism
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