Representation
What Representation means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Closely linked to constructed reality, because the constructed version also carries assumptions about groups and situations.
The framework area concerned with how groups and issues are portrayed, as distinct from media language choices.
Claims a link to something real, whereas simulation replaces that link with a self-referencing sign.
How newspapers represent groups and issues through their choices.
Topics that use Representation
- Postmodernism - Baudrillard's ideas and theories on postmodernism (AQA A-Level)
- Subject content (AQA A-Level)
- Theories of representation (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience reception
- Audience readings
- Audience targeting and reception
- Audience understanding
- Audiences and distribution in a digital age
- Consent versus coercion
- Constructed reality
- Distortion and omission
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