Exam overview

Exam section B [50 marks]

Topic: Media and collective identity

4 prompt/ research questions given by the exam board as a starting point

How do the contemporary media represent nations, regions and ethnic / social / collective groups of people in different ways?

How does contemporary representation 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?

Requirements

You will use case studies to explain, analyse and critique ideas surrounding collective identity

Historical perspective: what was happening in the past? A contemporary analysis: how is collective identity

formed now? A gaze into the future: how might things be different in

the future?

Example questions

1. To what extent is human identity increasingly mediated?2. ‘Media representations are just reflections of reality, not constructions or distortions’. Discuss with reference to one or more groups of people.

Task

Choose 5 images that you feel best represents you as a person

Choose 5 images that you think best represents another person in the class

Upload to blog, title: ‘Picture profile: your name/ peer name’

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Learning outcomes

Define collective identity

Explain ways in which identity is mediated

Task

Define collective identity. Write you answers on your blog

Collective identity can be viewed in 2 ways;The way in which a person defines themselves as an individual or belonging to part of a groupThe way in which other people view an individual or group

Mediation

All media is mediated

What do you think this means?

Editor

Audience

Your own identity mediated

Task

On your blogs, post the last 5 profile pictures from Facebook, or the last 5 pictures from Instagram/ Twitter

Write a sentence or 2 about your mediated identity.

What message are you sending?

Mediation

At the point of creation At the point of consumption

Create a flow diagram which depicts this. Use images to illustrate this.

Post your diagrams to your blogs

Editor

Audience

Plenary

Define collective identity Explain ways in which identity is mediated

1. To what extent is human identity increasingly mediated?2. ‘Media representations are just reflections of reality, not constructions or distortions’. Discuss with reference to one or more groups of people.

On your blogs, write an answer to one of the above questions in a sentence