- How do the contemporary media represent: nations, regions and ethnic/ social/ collective groups of people in different ways?
- How does contemporary representations compare to previous time periods?
- What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people?
- To what extent is human identity increasingly 'mediated'?
Essay guidelines-
Explanation/ analysis/ argument (16-20 marks)
show examples of collective identity, analyse the example and show how it relates to media theory relating to representation and collective identity.
Explain the effects of media representation on individuals/ or society as a whole.
Must use: historical and contemporary texts.
Use of examples (16-20 marks)
learn dates and proper names for media examples.
examples of theories, texts and industry knowledge are clearly connected together in the answer. History and the future are integrated into the discussion with conviction.
Use of terminology (8-10 marks)
You should use contemporary media theory and the command of the appropriate conceptual and theoretical language is excellent.
02/02/2016
Task:
· copy the exemplar on collective identity into
your blogger, set up a blog post tittled “exam”
· analyse the sample script using the attached
marking structure say what grade you would give to the paper. Analyse for Terminology, facts, and highlight
corrections
· discussion of why you gave it that grade and
how you think the essay could be improved.
2013 paper
G325 QUESTION 6: EXEMPLAR 1
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Whichever
question you answer, you must refer to examples from at least two media
areas in your answer. You should include reference to historical,
contemporary and future media.
Media and
Collective Identity
6. Explain what is meant by ‘collective identity’ and the role of media in its construction. [50] |
Extract from Candidate Script 1
I have been researching teenagers
and their identity. I’ve been looking into how the media shown teenagers.
I will relate this to Misfits and
Fishtank, and explain
their collective identity.
Misfits is a british tv series based on
a group of teens who are all facing community service.
We learn all there individual identity’s
and are made to believe they have no hope. We meet 5 teenagers who are all stereotypically shown
with anti-social behavior. In the group there is a party girl, sports runner,
cocky one etc.
Tajfel and turner quote that
‘people tend to categorise themselves into groups which they then build their
identity’s’. I disagree with this as these have been emerged together as they have all been in crime.
These include drugs, drink driving, fighting etc.
Historically this can relate to
Skins and grange hill,
these are all school based although skins covered more controversial issues. We see petty crimes which aren’t as
serious as the ones in misfits. Tajfel and turner quite is related to skins as they are all a
group of friends and they build there identity together.
Fishtank a 2009 film, teenagers are portrayed
differently. We get to see Mia a 15 year old girl who has no hope. She has a dream
of dancing but with young
single mothered mum who shouts and swears at children she has a poor family structure to
help her. David Buckingham quotes that the media don’t just offer a
transparent window of the world but a mediated one.
Mia smokes, binge drink and has underage sex.
The audience are made to believe that all teenagers are like this. He young mother who gets a boyfriend, he wants to help
Mia and find her identity. He often asks her to dance to his favourite
song although when she does we see them having sex. David Buckingham quote
can be related to misfits, we are made to believe that all teenagers have convicted crimes. In
Bullett Boy we see a gang of boys who are all involved in drugs and crime.
The media show teen culture in a very bad way. Misfits is released on TV past
the water shed times
as they all swear etc. It is shown on both E4 and channel 4, their website
contains games, podcasts, blogs etc. On the blogs you can communicate with
other fans. They have a facebook
and twitter page with
all individual accounts. David Gauntlett explains that identity’s are
complicated however everyone thinks they have one.
In Fishtank her mothers boyfriends
finds a dance event she can attend Mia then believes she made have found her identity when she gets there
she is called up on stage for which she didn’t know it was pole/lap dancing.
The media then show how teenagers
have no hope or luck.
Historically this could be related
to Dawson’s creek as
we are made to look down on the anti-social behaviour teens. It could also relate to Waterloo
road which is a tv
series on a school who the
youngens follow the action of the olders.
We then get to see the mother
having a party in her council estate flats with family and friends. Her two children aren’t
invited an stay
upstairs. This shows the lack of family structure at home. We meet Mia’s
little sister tyler
with a friend both who are swearing and smoking.
The audience are left to believe all young mums live in broken britain and teenagers have no hope at all.
Mia was kicked out of school and
they receive a letter which
is accepting her to a place in an anti-social behaviour school.
In both misfits and fishtank the media have stereotypically shown
teenagers and portrayed them very negatively. We are made to believe that all
teenagers are into anti-social behaviour, drinking, drugs, smoking etc. The
media will only shown
the negative sides of teen culture
so everyone will believe teens do this in everyday life not the positives that they do.
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I would give this exam paper a Level 2 because the exam shows evidence that the candidate has offered a response to the topic but also has a limited ability to adapt to the specific requirements. There is some use of theories and historical and contextual examples, however these are sometimes lacks relevance to what they have been previously saying. Their grammar and spelling is noticeably incorrect throughout the answer.
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