How does your media product represent particular social groups?
•Representation is when a symbol stands for something .
•For example , the McDonalds symbol is just the letter M which is internationally known and represents MacDonald's, but in media terms representation is the way something gets represented to someone , for example in the news if they are reporting on a war between the UK and France then they are going to represent the information in which is supported towards the UK, all representation goes through a mediating process so you get the knowledge from a third party source.
•The main people I want to read my magazine are ABC1 , this is who my magazine is aimed at. Social stratification is the way I know who I want to aim my magazine at , social stratification gives magazines knowledge of who is reading there magazine , whether they are middle class or working class , they can also separate this into male or female or age or religion.
•As the encoder for this magazine , I thought that as I am the age group for my target audience then I would have a bigger advantage as I know what people my age like , I choose things to put in that would be interesting to me and my friends , I asked them what kind of things would make them buy this magazine and what would attract them to it in the first place.
•I think my representation links in the fact that it can be placed in the same genres as other magazines so that the people who would buy that magazine would also buy mine.
•The representation is very denotative, the magazine is aimed at teenagers and I don’t really think it needs to be more complex , I am aiming the magazine solely at them so I just need to write the things that they would like the most.
•I think my representation is gives a positive light on the social group I aim my magazine at , its fun and interesting , its not completely dumbed down which shows try's to put a positive light on teenagers.
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