OCR A-Level Media Studies representation overview quiz quiz

It is a neutral, transparent reflection of a pre-existing reality

It is a construction of meaning, not a reflection

It only happens within factual news and documentary media

It is decided entirely by the individual audience member

An accurate, balanced summary of a whole social group

A purely positive and flattering portrayal of a group

An exercise of power that fixes a group around a few traits

A neutral technical code carrying no ideological dimension at all

A more extreme and heavily exaggerated version of the same stereotype

A representation aimed deliberately at the opposite audience

A particular type of camera shot used to frame a character

A representation that challenges or reverses an expected stereotype

Gender is constructed, and women are often objectified through the male gaze

Gender is a natural, biologically fixed category lying beyond any media influence

Gender has no measurable effect on how media texts represent people

Only men are ever meaningfully represented across the mainstream media

That gender is the single, only significant form of oppression

That oppression is the intersection of gender, race and class

That feminism is now unnecessary and politically outdated

That all women across all contexts share one identical experience

Showing a group as fundamentally the same as everyone else

A type of binary opposition used to structure a narrative

Constructing a group as different from and outside the norm

A question purely about broadcasting regulation and licensing

The academic study of ancient and classical civilisations

A distinct genre of historical and period film-making

A type of audience reception position drawn from encoding theory

Ranking cultures so the West is advanced and others primitive

Use them as a pick-and-mix resource to build fluid identities

Copy one single fixed role model exactly and without variation

Ignore representations completely when forming their identity

Only ever engage with them through factual news consumption

Older media offered far more diversity of identities to choose from

Older media offered narrower, more singular role models

Older media contained no identifiable representations of identity

Older media were entirely participatory and user-generated

It avoids relying on any named academic theory at all

It is a compulsory requirement set out by the mark scheme

It balances how representations constrain against how audiences are active

It removes any need to support the points being made with set-text examples