Media Studies A-Level
Media and collective identity
What Media and collective identity means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Media and collective identity
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In media study you apply the idea by asking how texts construct a sense of national belonging, which connects the concept to ethnicity and postcolonial theory.
Topics that use Media and collective identity
- Theories around ethnicity and postcolonial theory (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience negotiation and hybridisation
- Belonging and exclusion
- Centre and periphery
- Cultural imperialism
- Dominant culture and marginalisation
- Imagined communities
- Marginalisation
- Orientalism
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