Representation: blog tasks
Read the Media Magazine feature 'Representation old and new'. This is in MM51 on page 6 - go to our Media Magazine archive to find the article. Complete the following tasks: 1) Why is representation an important concept in Media Studies? The word representation itself holds a clue to its importance. When we see a person, place, object or idea being represented in a media text, it has in some way been mediated by the very act of representation. A representation is a re-presentation (literally – to present again), and so the images and ideas we see on screen, in print or online are ‘removed’ from the original object. The media intervene and stand between the object and what we see – the act of communicating the image or idea in some way changes it. 2) How does the example of Kate Middleton show the way different meanings can be created in the media? The Duchess of Cambridge is a person – she is flesh and blood, she exists. • A photographer takes her picture. If t