A blog by Jodie Taylor
Gender and Sexuality Gender and Sexuality Media are resources which many of us drawn upon when formulating our sense of self and modes of expression and the ubiquity of Western popular media means that they are significantly entwined with people’s … READ MORE
In this activity, we are going to look at the ways representations explicitly and implicitly communicate values that privilege or marginalise certain identities. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s theory of Encoding/Decoding will attempt to encode a representation of ourselves through avatar creation and … READ MORE
Representation Representation Introduction Representation refers to the construction in any medium (especially the mass media) of aspects of ‘reality’ such as people, emotions, experiences, places, objects, events, cultural identities and practices, social structures. In this lesson, we will explore representation … READ MORE
