Yet, the wide variety of media and the emotions they cause challenges. Representation, meaning, and language alisa acosta. This article argues that the theory of social representations can give valuable contributions to media research. Representation in media helps to break these formulaic approaches because its usually so rare for minorities to be given the spotlight. You should make your own notes when we discuss this, and add examples of media texts that support the theory. Wood department of communication, universityof north times more often than ones about women study re carolina at chapelhill ports sex bias, themes in media. In this piece, the author discusses recent feminist theory, in particular feminist theory of cyborg identity, and examines some media representations of a womanofcolor superintendent. It offers a new theorybased approach for studying how the media and. The boundaries are blurred as codes and conventions create a set of signifiers which we understand but in fact the representation is a. Some texts are difficult to distinguish in terms of the representation of reality from a simulation of reality e.
Aristotle, on the other hand, viewed representations. Furthermore, it discussed various theories including stereotypes, representation, masculinity. Two particular examples of media are also described in detail. With plato, we are confronted with representation as media in that they intervene between the student and the real creating illusions which lead one away from the real things. In media studies, representation is the way aspects of society, such as gender, age or ethnicity, are presented to audiences. They start from basics, and they give a lot of motivation and nice examples. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Knowledge representation, the study of formal ways to describe knowledge. Introduction to representation theory mit opencourseware. It offers a new theorybased approach for studying how the media and citizens socially represent societal and political issues colouring our age, or some specific time period. The point of view is that representation theory is a fundamental theory, both for its own sake and as a tool in many other elds of mathematics. Representation theory university of california, berkeley. The basic definition of representation in the media is simply how media, such as television, film and books, portray certain types of people or communities.
Why is it wrong if a movie doesnt cast a person of color, doesnt that just mean they werent as qualified. Media representations are the ways in which the media portrays particular groups, communities, experiences, ideas, or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective. Representations are shaped by genre, audience, institutional context, dominant ideologies in society. Media representations and impact on the lives of black men and. Within this article, i will focus on the definitions i deem most relevant to our discussion of media while keeping in mind that. There are a number of groups who are underrepresented in most western media. Representation in the media has caused several debates. Complemented by more than 350 exercises at various levels of difficulty, this text is a valuable reference for researchers and students in algebra and related fields, and is ideally suitable for learning representation theory by selfstudy. Representation psychology, a hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality. Representation systemics, a role or function or a property of an abstract or real object, relation or changes. Representation in media the media do not portray reality, they create reality.
The word stands for or represents the concept, and can be used to reference or designate either a real object in the world or indeed even some imaginary object, like angels dancing on the head of a pin, which no one has ever actually seen. Representation challenges the status quo and by doing that, brings fresh ideas to the table. In an ncea course students study the representation of a particular group or culture in the media and messages andor values shown in media texts. Representation media concepts teaching media studies. In this paper we develop a representational approach to media theory.
Groups arise in nature as sets of symmetries of an object, which are closed under composition and under taking inverses. I would totally recommend the notes by etingof et al called introduction to representation theory i think this is the best introduction to representation theory ive read. You only need to look at the superhero phase that were currently in to see its love of routine and safe approaches. We are now going to explore what each one of these theorists have said about the media and the concept of representation. Because literacy implies something that is mediated through text, in my previous post i questioned the idea of what constitutes a text. Marxist media theory daniel chandler opposition to functionalism opposition to liberal pluralism base and superstructure media as means of production ideology media as amplifiers the constitution of the subject differences within marxism the frankfurt school althusser gramsci and hegemony stuart hall limitations of marxist analysis. Lie algebra representation theory su3representations in physics ma 725 north carolina state university department of mathematics christopher koerber december 3, 20 department of physics, north carolina state university, raleigh, nc 27695, u.
As another example consider the representation theory of quivers. From a cultural studies perspective, the project will make use of theories of representation to explore. A system of common values, ideas and practices that enable people to understand each other and communicate about similar issues. Representation is how media texts deal with and present gender, age. In this theory, one considers representations of the group algebra a cg of a. Representation theorists media studies revision world. Why would an allwhite the wiz cast be racist but an allblack the wiz is glorified. Such representations may be in speech or writing as well as still or moving pictures. Pdf media and the representation of others researchgate. Representation from critical terms for literary study.
After further consideration, i feel that representation is the key. As heir to a strong french sociological tradition, the theory of social representations, elaborated by serge moscovici in the beginning of the 1960s, has become one of the major theories in social. Unfortunately, the thought theory does not representation, reality, and emotions across media. Representations of gender in the media oxford handbooks. For example, the symmetric group s n is the group of all. In his interview with eve bearne, gunther kress argues that literacy is that which is about representation kress, in bearne, 2005, p.
A media representation is a depiction, a likeness or. A token system is called a medium if the following axioms are satisfied. The next definition introduces the main concept of media theory. A companion website for the media theory for a level essential revision guide. Alongside other socializing influences such as family and peers, the media help form perceptions of gender roles, and can shape the behaviors that stem from those perceptions. Media representation theory representation refers to the construction in any medium especially the mass media of aspects of reality such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and other abstract concepts.
Representation theory ct, lent 2005 1 what is representation theory. Towards a critical and ethical encounter with others by amy hinterberger1 abstract this essay begins from the position that a speaking subject in feminism occupies a place of power and authority which requires a commitment to an ethical involvement in the representation of others. Hall is very closely identified in media studies with an approach known as cultural studies, and he starts with one of its central concepts. It is suggested that the cyborg image offers alternative ways to consider the issue of diversity and educational leadership, including the superintendency. The wider implications are investigated, such as the consequences for different groups in society of representations, messages and values. From theatrical productions in the 18th century, the birth of commercial cinema and the emergence of cheap, sensationalistic publications known. In the early 1980s, discourse representation theory drt was introduced by hans kamp as a theoretical framework for dealing with issues in the semantics and pragmatics of anaphora and tense kamp 1981. As currently organized, academicbased framing theory focuses on frames as. Feminist theory and the media representation of a womanof. Stuart hall provides an excellent introduction to representation you can see a summary of his points by going to the bottom of the page and following the links, but there is always more to say about a basic concept like this. Discourse representation theory stanford encyclopedia of. And media studies itself is, in an obvious sense, concerned in.
Cultural studies has paid a tremendous amount of attention in one way or another to the centrality of representations and of the practice of representation. Social representation theory wolfgang wagner communities are characterized by their name that reflects their selfattributed identity and by the fact that their members communicate among themselves by virtue of a shared meaning system. This analysis results in a set of concrete strategies that overcome these problems and that stipulate a rethinking of the relationship between media and cultural diversity. Media representation theory representation refers to the construction in any medium especially the mass media of aspects of reality such. Representations, identity and resistance in communication. This style or its most ideal form is perhaps best summarized by p. The representation of race and gender in global and local print media responses of the. Representation theorists baudrillard hyper reality.
Identity, identification, and media representation in video game play. Lie algebra representation theory su3representations in. This is how you give meaning to things through language. The theory of representation is explored visually on this page. The process of mediation representing the real world on film or television or in a newspaper or magazine involves a process which means representations always carry.
Look at recent films such as the danish girl, a portrayal of the first man to undergo a sex change operation, or 12 years a slave, a powerful film around the life of an american slave. Individuals young and old can learn a great deal from the ways in which men and women and boys and girls are depicted in the media. While cultivation theory tries to explain media effects on society in general, other psychological theories. Challenging media portrayals of black women as mammies, matriarchs. We construct representations of media by wellgraded families of sets and partial cubes and establish the uniqueness of these representations. The trouble with media representation literature cultural identity theory 32.