[5.1] What Are Media Representations

[5.2] Representations of Gender, Race, and Class

[5.3] Representations of Different Cultures

[5.4] Studying Media Representations

[5.5] Teaching Analysis of Media Representations

[5.6] Representation and Censorship

[5.7] Representations and Idealization

[5.8] Studying Representations of Social Types or Groups

[5.8a] Representations of Femininity

[5.8b] Masculinity

[5.8c] Masculinity and Sports

[5.8d] Gays / Lesbians

[5.8e] Racial and Ethnic Groups

[5.8f] Class

[5.9] Families and Age Groups

[5.10] War

[5.11] Political Parties and Organizations

[5.12] Counter-Representations

[5.13] Additional Web Resources

[5.14] Teaching Activities

Powerpoints

[5.8.1] Representations of groups often serves to fix the meanings of perceptions of groups. For example, media representations of black men affect how the society perceives black men in the “real world.” (Hall, 1997): Media Education Foundation

[5.8.2] Groups are also often represented in highly essentialized ways by promoting generalizations according to gender, class, and race group categories—that “all boys always do X, and all girls always do Y,” or “all working-class people are like X and all upper-middle-class people are like Y.” Jane Tallim, Exposing Gender Stereotypes

[5.8.3] Gendered media representations are important in that they are central to adolescents defining their identities, as explored in the book, Media, Gender, and Identity.