how does your media product represent particular social groups?

HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA

PRODUCT REPRESENT

PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?

WHICH SOCIAL GROUPS HAVE YOU REPRESENTED?

• GIRLS

• ABOUT THE AGE OF 10 – 16 (FOCUSING ON THE AGE OF 13)

• TEENAGERS

• WORKING CLASS AND MIDDLE CLASS

• ENGLISH SPEAKERS

• POP MUSIC FANS

• MULTIPLE ETHNICITIES

HOW HAVE YOU REPRESENTED THEM?

I have represented them as: Feminine females Like to watch shows like X-Factor Are interested in topics such as

boys and friendships Mostly the audience will be around

the age of 13 Young and older audiences still

may be interested Likes non-challenging articles Confident and sassy Fun loving

IS THE REPRESENTATION STEREOTYPICAL?• ON THE COVER, 2 DIFFERENT

ETHNICITIES ARE DISPLAYED.

• THE ETHNICITIES ARE TREATED IN IDENTICAL MANNERS.

• THEY’RE ALL WEARING THE SAME KIND OF CLOTHING AND AREN’T STEREOTYPICAL OF THEIR ETHNICITY'S.

• THE MAGAZINE SHOWS FEMALES TO BE STRONG AND INDEPENDENT AND THE MAIN FOCUS OF THE MAGAZINE, BUT WITH A SMALL FOCUS ON MALES FROM THE FEMALE PERSPECTIVE.

Indian

Caucasian

LANGUAGE

• INFORMAL

• IN THE WAY YOUNG TEENAGERS TALK

• RELATES TO THE AUDIENCE

• CONJUNCTIONS

• IDIOM

WORD/PICTURE RATIO

• I HAVE TRIED TO USE MORE SPACE WITH PICTURES THAN WITH TEXT, AS THE YOUNGER AUDIENCE REACTS BETTER TO PICTURES

• I TRIED TO KEEP WORDS SIMPLIFIED TO MAKE IT EASY TO READ

POSITIVE/NEGATIVE REPRESENTATION• THE MAGAZINE ONLY DISPLAYS

POSITIVE REPUTATION

• DIFFERENT ETHNICITIES ARE SHOWN TO BE EQUAL

• FEMALES ARE SHOWN TO BE MORE DOMINANT

• FEMALES ARE SHOWN TO BE DEPEND ON TRIVIAL THINGS LIKE MAKE-UP