1. The article is talking about how the media is sexist towards women and portray women as having to be slim and sexy in order to be accepted in society and that this is the dominant male view on this.
2. The film which has sparked the debate on female body image and female representation is called 'A Perfect 14.' It is a documentary which challenges the idea of beauty and what is beautiful and normal ignoring what traditional women looked like.
3. The female gaze differs from the male one as men look at women and objectify them, they aren't able to do anything and just have to accept they're being looked at. The female gaze is similar to the male gaze as they're looking at males in the same way but it isn't as passive.
4. I think real women should appear in the media as it shows a representation of women all over the UK regardless of their actual size, it could be damaging to women's self confidence of health if they decide to starve themselves in order to go down to a size 0 just to be accepted by society and women.
5. The film is trying to get across that women don't need to be too self concious about the way that they look and that they're beautiful no matter what they look like even if it's not like the 'ideal women' that are portrayed in the media.
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1. The introduction talks about how different people create media texts with their own ideas which other people then view in the exact same way that they do.
This suggests that there is a representation process in which certain people in the media including the photographer, picture editor and news editor. They're able to influence how we see an image and can give it different meanings on the basis of how the photo could be taken(camera angle).
The expectations and needs of the target audience, the limitations provided by the genre codes, the type of narrative they wish to create and their institutional remit.
This is how the audience interpret the media text, they might believe what they're viewing or have a different view on it.
Social media gives more people a voice, this can be on social media website or even people on YouTube, they can influence people to speak up and get their voice across.
Media texts such as a newspaper or broadsheet would promote the ideologies that they want but not e-media platforms.
2. I'm aware of what I post on social media, I make sure that it represents me in a positive way rather than conforming to the stereotype that all teenagers do drugs and are violent. I use the media for entertainment purposes and post things that doesn't cause any offence to anyone.
3. I think that the audience is more powerful that institutions as the audience can decide whether they want to watch something or not, they can influence the decisions the institutions make by protesting or deciding to do other things that the majority of the audience want to change or add in today's media. An example of this would be with BBC where the audience can decide whether they're representing majority of the UK and if not the audience and get their view across and influence the BBC's decision to change something.
2. I'm aware of what I post on social media, I make sure that it represents me in a positive way rather than conforming to the stereotype that all teenagers do drugs and are violent. I use the media for entertainment purposes and post things that doesn't cause any offence to anyone.
3. I think that the audience is more powerful that institutions as the audience can decide whether they want to watch something or not, they can influence the decisions the institutions make by protesting or deciding to do other things that the majority of the audience want to change or add in today's media. An example of this would be with BBC where the audience can decide whether they're representing majority of the UK and if not the audience and get their view across and influence the BBC's decision to change something.
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