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Posted in 4. ‘Media Discourse’ Or ‘The male gaze’

The Male Gaze and its development over time

The Male Gaze surrounds the way that women are portrayed within media products. Theorised by Laura Mulvey,…

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Posted in 3. ‘Manufacturing Consent’ Or ‘Ideas of encoding and decoding’

The limitations of Stuart Hall’s Encoding and Decoding Model

Stuart Hall was a pioneer in media theory, founding the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies in 1964…

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Posted in 2. ‘Medium theory’ Or ‘Construction of Identity in a digital world’

The Medium and it’s Manipulation of the Message.

Media is ever present in our modern society, whether it be News, Television, Radio or Social Media….

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Posted in 1. ‘Two Step Flow theory’ Or ‘Culture Industry’

Understanding and Analysing “The Culture Industry”

Ideas and critical theories surrounding the concept of the culture industry were created by sociologists Max Horkheimer…

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Who am I?

My name is Alex, I’m 19 years old, from the UK and I study Digital Media and…