Thursday 5 January 2012

Defining the Key Terms

Social implications - when you something that causes you to have a negative affect on you by groups in society.

Contemporary media - media in every day life. modern, present day media

Representation - refers to the construction in any medium (especially the mass media) of aspects of ‘reality’ such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and other abstract concepts. Such representations may be in speech or writing as well as still or moving pictures. 
(http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC30820/represent.html) 

Mediated - An interpretation, between two different people. For example a newspaper interprets young people and mediates this to the readers.

Human Identity - The set of behavioural or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group.


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