“Texts are only representations but people process images as reality.”
Links related to Stereotypes; Gender Issues; Representations in the media; See also Body Image
Key quote: “The media do not merely represent; they also recreate world as desirable, and saleable. What they reproduce is chosen, not random, not neutral, and not without consequence”. (source)
Media representation; how people, institutions, events, or facts are depicted in the media; It is accepted as a concept related to how issues or problems are explained to the public and how a causal link is established. (Source)
- Are magazines for young men likely to reinforce stereotypical, ‘macho’ and sexist attitudes in their readers?
- Editing and representation
- Gender: Magazine Cover Analysis
- Gender In Media: Females Don’t Rule
- Gender in Pixar Films
- Genderads.com
- Gender Representations In Media
- Genre & Media Literacy (teens and films)
- Girls In The Media
- Girls Re-Cast TV Action Kit
- Girls, Women + Media Project
- GLAAD: Eye on the media
- Hollywood Movies With African-American Directors Have More Black Characters
- How fair are representations of family?
- How Seventeen Undermines Young Women
- How to read a (gender) ad
- How to teach representation
- HYPE: Monitoring The Black Image in the Media
- Jackson Katz
- Jean Kilbourne
- Latinos and the Media
- Lesson plans:
- Looking for latino regulars on prime time TV (2004 report; 2003; 2002)
- Media, Gender and Identity (see text below) Critical Readings: Media & Gender
- Media Report to Women
- Media representation (long list of links)
- Media Representation
- Media + Women Project
- Mixed Media Watch
- National Women and Media Collection
- People With Disabilities Larger Absent In TV Ads
- Popular Culture-Gender Issues
- Race & Representation in Magazines
- Reading Gender and Culture
- Representation of Gender In Movie Posters
- Reflections of Girls In The Media
- Representation
- Representation
- Representation (ppt)
- Representation and The Media-Stuart Hall
- Representation: How It Works
- Representation in Art and Film: Identity and Stereotype
- Representation in Children’s Media
- Representation of Elderly in Primetime TV Ads
- The Representation Project
- Representations of Youth
- Representing History (pdf)
- Seven Ways Women and Girls Are Stereotyped, Sexualized, and Underrepresented on Screen
- Stereotypes & Representation
- Stereotypes in context
- Studying Media Representations
- Teaching Middle Schoolers about Representation in the Media
- Understanding Stereotypes
- Unpacking Gender Bias In Advertising
- What TV & Film Get Right About Representation
- Where Are All the Girl Ninjas? Sexist Stereotypes Pervade Children’s Media
- Women’s Bodies In Sports Ads
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