After completing this module, you will be able to:

• identify the specific ways in which media representations uses images, sound/music, intertextuality, language, and techniques to construct a version of reality associated with a particular phenomena, group, world, institution, or profession.

• apply these specific aspects of media representations to analysis of a media text.

• be familiar with websites/texts that contain examples of texts illustrating certain types of media representations.

• construct a webquest that involves students in analyzing media representation of a particular phenomena, group, world, institution, or profession.

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

Final Task

References

Teaching Activities