Interesting overview: link
Interesting overview that details further the imperialism v hybridisation debate: link
AQA MEST 3 Identities section B revision help
Help with the A Level Mest 3 section B identity exam topic. Low downs on theorists, exam style questions, case study advice and sample exam answers.
Tuesday 24 May 2016
Friday 6 May 2016
Social Media texts that you've found
Use this link to identify at least one text that you are going to use in your social media essay on Tuesday - link
Thursday 4 February 2016
Owen Jones Work Sheet
Click here for a link to a worksheet that compares Owen Jones' ideas on the representation of chav culture and how they compare to other theorists covered on the course so far.
Tuesday 19 January 2016
Sunday 7 June 2015
Tuesday 2 June 2015
Vanity or equality?
Caitlyn Jenner might have broken on to the front cover of a major women's lifestyle mag but does it mean that the transgender community have finally achieved equality? The Guardian discusses whether CJ has brokered a new identity barrier or whether she's reinforcing heteronormative beauty?
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Black out? David Oyelowo outs racism in Hollywood.
David Oyelowo discusses Hollywood's use of the BBF (black best friend) - two dimensional stereotypes of Black Americans that are derogatory mainstay within Hollywood scripts.
Sunday 31 May 2015
British urban music resists American tidal wave
Has UK hip hop lost its voice? Interesting article proclaiming a new wave of British urban music.
Wednesday 20 May 2015
Self representing transgender documentary
Really lovely short documentary called "I am Sam" exploring one young persons coming out as a transgender man.
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The Dark Side of Twitter: trolls and transexuality
A pretty gruesome article highlighting the case of Twitter trolls urging transgendered users to kill themselves. Social media exists to reinforce traditional identities.
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Saturday 2 May 2015
Social media and fragmented identities
Interesting article here that talks about identity fragmentation within social media - that we present different versions of ourselves dependent upon which social media platform we are communicating with.
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Sunday 26 April 2015
The Echo Chamber Effect
Alan Martin from Wired magazine discusses the Echo Chamber Effect - the idea that we surround ourselves with like minded people on social media. This leads, Martin argues, to entrenched and polemical identities being expressed on social media.
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Saturday 25 April 2015
The poor pay for Internet services with their identity data...
Evgeny Morozov discusses the global control of identity data by Facebook and Google. The argument seems Marxian in direction - social media is controlled by a select band of American based organisations who are monetising the data of the world's poor in return for connectivity.
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Wednesday 15 April 2015
It's no joke...disability and comedy.
Stand up comedian Lee Ridley, aka Lost Voice Guy, talks about the media's treatment of disability in this Guardian interview. Link.
Monday 6 April 2015
Citizen Journalism: hacks or heroes?
Citizen journalism, defender of democracy or unreliable vanity project? The New Statesman analyses the murky truth of CJ submissions.
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Saturday 4 April 2015
Professional trolls or particapatory culture...?
Jenkins and Gauntlett would argue that social media is a force for good, a means of expressing your identity, but has social media become dominated by the emergence of a new identity - the 'professional troll'.
An interesting article in the Guardian on the ubiquitous Katie Hopkins. Link.
An interesting article in the Guardian on the ubiquitous Katie Hopkins. Link.
Friday 3 April 2015
The death of old media...
Its official, TV is in terminal decline - if these recent Ofcom viewing statistics reported by the Guardian are to be believed.
Thursday 2 April 2015
Perils of a cyber feminist
'No More Page 3' campaigner Lucy-Anne Holmes talks frankly about the abuses she's endured as a social media activist
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Sunday 29 March 2015
Cass Sunstein: new technologies and personalisation
Cass Sunstein's argument suggests that new technologies, far from giving us choice, prevent diversity, make us lazy and inhibit our identities. This Guardian article explains all. Link
Wednesday 25 March 2015
Monday 23 March 2015
Saturday 21 March 2015
Positive representations of class in documentary
The BBC can always be relied upon to produce inclusive content. The Billion Dollar Chicken Shop is one of the few shows out there that contradicts Owen Jones demonisation of the working class theory. Trailer below - see iPlayer for full episodes.
News for people with learning disabilities
The charity United Response produces this innovative newspaper that's aimed at a very unique audience, slim proof perhaps of media pluralism. Click here to see back issues. Martin Lewis from UR explains more below.
Friday 20 March 2015
The dominance of the white male...
Intelligent Newstatesman article by Grayson Perry that looks at the idea that we live in a world that is still dominated by the view point of the white male. Link.
How diverse is TV?
An interesting Guardian article on the absence of a range of minority groups on British TV screen. Great statistics supplied too. Link.
Thursday 19 March 2015
New Teens documentary Channel 4
This looks suitably hideous - a new doc that looks at teenagers through their use of social media. Starts Tuesday at 10pm.
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Disability in Breaking Bad
Interesting link to an interview with Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte who talks about the problems that disabled actors face.
Friday 13 March 2015
Gender shift in music videos
This link looks at eight interesting music video performances by female artists where gender trouble is evident - some simple analysis too.
Another blog with a fairly decent analysis of gender reps in hip-hop
This third link is a must - sound academic research that discusses contemporary examples of fluidic gender portrayal. Anyone engaging in this kind of case study has to read this.
Another blog with a fairly decent analysis of gender reps in hip-hop
This third link is a must - sound academic research that discusses contemporary examples of fluidic gender portrayal. Anyone engaging in this kind of case study has to read this.
Wednesday 11 March 2015
White Dee: Benefits Street
Just spent 20mins scrolling through White Dee's Twitter feed, some really interesting links to #benefitsbritain, #benefitsstreet where there's some rather lively political debate. Interestingly, there seems to be a mutual support dynamic at work where sanctioned benefits claimants are talking about their experiences.
Reality TV Class based products
Some ideas for class based products that you could explore
Heroic depictions of the working class
Ice Road Truckers
World's Deadliest Catch
Channel 4 depictions
One Born Every Minute
Gogglebox
Heroic depictions of the working class
Ice Road Truckers
World's Deadliest Catch
Channel 4 depictions
One Born Every Minute
Gogglebox
Sunday 8 March 2015
Thursday 5 March 2015
Choosing your Casestudy
This week you ought to be working hard to set up your case study.
REMEMBER your case study ought to have a clear focus.
Choose a group (ethnic,class based, age based, gender) and choose a form of media output to examine how your group's identity is constructed within that type of product)
You ought also to be choosing 4 core products to analyse in your case study
Any problems please email Mr. Dixon!
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