Politics and the Media!
Critical Research Project!

Key Concepts!
AUDIENCES as political consumers!
INSTITUTIONAL regulation and political agendas!
CONVENTIONAL and less traditional political media!
Bias and stereotype in political REPRESENTATION!

Sample Project!
Is Borat “politically correct”?!

Audiences!
Where and whom are the Borat audience?!
Did they like the film?!
Who finds it offensive?!

Example from Internet!
IMDB.com (Internet Movie DataBase)!

Institutions!
What race and religious guidelines regulate media institutions?!
How has the rest of the media reacted?!

Example of official websites!
BBFC.co.uk (British Board of Film Classification)!

Forms and Conventions!
What film genre and conventions are used?!
What comic conventions are used and broken in Borat?!

Example from Newspaper!
The Guardian!

Representations!
how was 9/11 represented ?!
what were the key themes of coverage ?!
how were other nations covered ?!
how far was stereotyping evident ?!

Example from Book!
Representing 'Race'!
Ideology, Identity and the Media!
by Robert Ferguson !

Wider Context!
BBC NEWS!
Racism, Religion and Law!