Media Representation

Definition 

Media representations are the ways in which the media portrays particular groups, communities, experiences, ideas, or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective. Rather than examining media representations as simply reflecting or mirroring “reality,” we will be examining how media representations serve to “re-present” or to actually create a new reality.  

(Definition can be found here)  

My Definition 

Media representation is a system created by media institutions to act as propaganda to indoctrinating their demographic by portraying a particular group of people in a certain type of perspective; just like portraying teenage girls as avid shopaholics or portraying teenage boys as avid video game players.

Three resources I found most interesting/helpful and why

To aid me whilst creating my Media Studies Bridging Blog I was given a handful of resources and examples to use at my disposal as verbal  and visual scaffolding, these are the main three resources I found helpful. 

*1) The Actual Main Media Blog 

       Ideally The main Beaverwood media blog was the most resourceful source i was given; this was 

           because this acted as a hub of knowledge in which i could gather collect information and detailed instructions ranging from videos on starting a blog too examples of completed and successful blogs. 

*2) The "Annotating Magazines Cover" page 

The Annotating Magazines Cover page was great, I have to admit; there were quite a few vocab words on that page that were completely new to me one example being "Masthead". 

With all the new analyzing techniques i gathered from this source i can bravely say I qualified to analyse any example of a magazine cover, which is why i found this source extremely helpful. 

*3) The Example of A Successful Bridging Unit 

I found this source surprisingly useful, this is simply because I was able to use this successful example as a stimuli to base my own blog on, this example blog acted as a visual example and representation of what i should aim to make finishing blog look like, and for this reason I found the source useful.  

Additional Helpful Source 

I found another really useful source online, this source was a webpage explaining how to embed an image into your title, I found this very useful because it covered an area that wasn't covered in the Media blog that was provided.