Media Studies A-Level
Dominant, negotiated and oppositional readings
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The three reading positions: a dominant or preferred reading accepts the encoded meaning, a negotiated reading accepts parts while adapting others to its own experience, and an oppositional reading rejects the preferred meaning.
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