Teachers could create a webquest based on analysis of media representation of a particular phenomena, group, world, institution, or profession.

For further reading on media representations

Alvermann, D.E., Moon, J.S., & Hagood, M.C. (1999). Popular culture in the classroom: Teaching and researching critical media literacy. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Andersen, R., & Strate, L. (Eds.). (2000). Critical studies in media commercialism. New York: Oxford University Press.

Beynon, J. (2002). Masculinities and culture. London: Open University Press.

Bernardi, D. (Ed.) (1996). The birth of Whiteness: Race and the emergence of U.S. cinema. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Branston, G., & Stafford, R. (2003). The media student's book. New York: Routledge.

Buckley, C., & Fawcett, H. (2002). Fashioning the feminine: Representation and women's fashion from the Fin De SiÂ-cle to the present. New York: I.B. Tauris.

Burt, R. (Ed.). (2002). Shakespeare after mass media. New York: Palgrave.

Chermak, S., Bailey, F., & Brown, M. (2003). Media representations of September 11. New York: Praeger.

Clark, L. (2003). From angels to aliens: Teenagers, the media, and the supernatural. New York: Oxford University Press.

Considine, D.M., & Haley, G.E. (1999). Visual messages: Integrating imagery into instruction (2nd ed.). Englewood, CO: Teacher Ideas Press.

Curran, J., & Gurevitch, M. (Eds.). (2000). Mass media and society. London: Arnold.

De Graff, J, Wann, D., Naylor, T., Horsey, D. (2002).
Affluenza: The all-consuming epidemic. New York: Berrett-Koehler.

Denzin, N. (2002). Reading race : Hollywood and the cinema of racial violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Dyson, A.H. (1997). Writing superheroes: Contemporary childhood, popular culture and classroom literacy. New York: Teachers College Press.

Frank, T. (1998). The conquest of cool: Business culture, counterculture, and the rise of hip consumerism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Frank, T. (2001). One market under God: Extreme capitalism, market populism, and the end of economic democracy. New York: Anchor.

Gal, S., & Kligman, G. (Eds.). (2000). Reproducing gender. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Ginsburg, F., Abu-Lughod, L., & Larkin, B. (Eds.). (2003). Media worlds: Anthropology on new terrain. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

hooks, b. (1994). Outlaw culture: Resisting representations. New York: Routledge.

Kellner, D. (1999). Media Literacies and Critical Pedagogy in a Multicultural Society

Klein, N. (2002). No logo: No space, no choice, no jobs. New York: Picador.

Mason, P. (Ed.) (2004). Criminal visions: Media representations of crime and justice. New York: Millan Publishing.

McLaron, P., Hammer, R., Sholle, D., & Reilly, S. (1995). Rethinking media literacy: A critical pedagogy of representation. New York: Peter Lang.

Mirzoeff, N. (2002). The visual culture reader. New York: Routledge.

Morley, D. (2000). Home territories: Media, mobility and identity. New York: Routledge.

Perrine, T. (1997). Film and the nuclear age: Representing cultural anxiety. New York: Garland.

Quart, A. (2003). Branded: The buying and selling of teenagers. New York: Perseus.

Roediger, D. (1999). The wages of Whiteness: Race and the making of the American working class. New York: Verso.

Said, E. (1997). Covering Islam: How the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world. New York: Vintage.

Semali, L. (Ed.). (2002). Transmediation in the classroom: A semiotics-based media literacy framework. New York: Teachers College Press.

Spretnak, C. (1997). The resurgence of the real: body, nature, and place in a hypermodern world. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley,

Steinberg. S., & Kincheloe, J. (Eds.). (1997). Kinderculture: The corporate construction of childhood. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Torres, S. (2003). Black, white, and in color: Television and Black civil rights. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Whannel, G. (2001). Media sport stars: Masculinities and moralities. New York: Routledge.

Williams, L. (2002). Playing the race card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Wilson, L. (1999). The wired church: Making media ministry. New York: Abington.

Module 5: Word document

What are Media Representations?

Why Study Media Representations?

Studying Media Representations

Methods for Analyzing Media Representations

Representation and Censorship

Representations and Public Relations / Promotions

Studying Representations of Social Types or Groups

Representations of Femininity

Masculinity

Masculinity and Sports

Gays / Lesbians

Racial and Ethnic Groups

Class

Representations of Different Age Groups or Occupations

Occupations

Institutions

Instructional Activity

References

Teaching Activities