2. What is Representation? Representation refers to the construction in any medium (especially the mass media ) of aspects of ‘reality’ such as people, places, objects, events, cultural identities and other abstract concepts. Such representations may be in speech or writing as well as still or moving pictures.
3. What is Representation? Representation describes the signs that stand in for and take the place of something else. It is through representation people know and understand the world and reality through the act of naming it Signs are manipulated in order to make sense of the world.
4. Representation VS Reality Different media producers ‘pick up’ aspects of ‘REALITY ’ society AND reshapes them to suit current trends in society that will foster profit-money making for the medium they occur in or for the product they are going to sell. In doing this, media producers use STEREOTYPES as they are a quick, if distorted way, of conveying information because they are easily recognised by audiences. NORMAL PEOPLE IN THE ‘REAL’ WORLD