Representation overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Media Studies quiz

Media simply mirror a pre-existing reality without changing it

Media construct versions of reality through selected codes and shared meaning

Representation is the private invention of a single producer

Representation only matters for advertising, not other forms

It offers a rounded, complex picture of a social group

It has no relationship to power or inequality

It reduces people to a few fixed traits and naturalises difference

It applies only to representations of places, never people

They absorb a single fixed identity imposed by the media

They ignore all representations when forming identity

They pick and mix from diverse representations as resources for identity

They only use representations made before the year 2000

Representations have become more diverse and fluid over time

Representations have become narrower and more rigid over time

Representations of identity have disappeared entirely

Representations now come only from print media

Gender is a fixed biological essence unaffected by media

Gender is constructed through discourse and varies with context

Gender has no relationship to representation

Gender is identical in meaning across all cultures and eras

It is shown as an active subject driving the narrative

It is coded to be looked at as an object of visual pleasure for a presumed viewer

It is never shown on screen at all

It is represented only through written language

As a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression

As a movement of women against men exclusively

As a theory concerned only with advertising imagery

As the study of how genres repeat and differ

The point where two narratives cross in a plot

The interlocking of gender, race and class in systems of oppression

The overlap between two media industries

The blending of two genres in a single product

Gender is a natural inner essence a person expresses

Gender is decided entirely by media producers

Gender is constructed through the repeated performance of conventional acts

Gender is irrelevant to media representation

Because gender is fixed and can never change

Because no media product ever represents gender

Because gender is a repeated performance that non-conforming acts can disrupt

Because audiences cannot perceive gender at all

Showing two ethnic groups as completely equal

Constructing a non-white group as an inferior 'other' against a white norm

A narrative built around two equal protagonists

The pairing of two media forms in a cross-media product

By reinforcing the colonial binary more strongly

By removing all representations of ethnicity from media

By opening up post-colonial identities that negotiate more than one belonging

By proving that race has no role in representation

Reading how the codes construct the representation

Describing who is shown instead of how they are constructed

Asking whose interests the representation serves

Naming the relevant set theory

Because representations are constructed by those with the power to make media

Because representation has no values attached to it

Because audiences never respond to representations

Because representation only concerns technical codes

Todorov and Neale

Baudrillard and Levi-Strauss

bell hooks with Hall and Gilroy

Gerbner and Shirky