media studies- representation theories

stuart hall

stuart hall

he argues that stereotyping reduces people to a few simple characteristics or traits.

van zoonen

she argues that the display of women body as sexual, visual objects and that male bodies are constructed to be powerful.

gauntlett

the idea that people use the media to shape themselves and construct their identity. also that representations have changed: now more diverse.

Gilroy

argues that colonial history continues to inform old fashioned western attitudes to race and ethnicity.

butler

argues that gender fluidity means gender shifts and changes, its not fixed but learnt through repetition.

bell hooks

argues that race and class as well as sex determine the extent to which individuals are discriminated against.