1. Exam section B [50 marks]
Topic: Media and collective identity
4 prompt/ research questions given by the exam board as a starting point
 How do the contemporary media represent nations, regions and ethnic /
social / collective groups of people in different ways?
 How does contemporary representation compare to previous time
periods?
 What are the social implications of different media representations of
groups of people?
 To what extent is human identity increasingly mediated?

2. You will use case studies to explain, analyse and critique
ideas surrounding collective identity
 Historical perspective: what was happening in the past?
 A contemporary analysis: how is collective identity formed
now?
 A gaze into the future: how might things be different in
the future?
Example questions
1.To what extent is human identity increasingly mediated?
2. ‘Media representations are just reflections of reality, not
constructions or distortions’. Discuss with reference to one or
more groups of people.

3. Choose 5 images that you feel best represents you as a
person
Choose 5 images that you think best represents another
person in the class
Upload to blog, title: ‘Picture profile: your name/ peer name’
Ali- Pavan
Iqra- Kate
Nicole- Rhea
Rhea- Ali
Kate- Nicole
Pavan- Iqra

4.  Define collective identity
 Explain ways in which
identity is mediated

5.  Define collective identity.Write you answers
on your blog
Collective identity can be viewed in 2 ways;
The way in which a person defines themselves as an
individual or belonging to part of a group
The way in which other people view an individual or
group

6. All media is mediated
What do you think this means?

7. Editor
Audience

9. On your blogs, post the last 5 profile pictures
from Facebook, or the last 5 pictures from
Instagram/Twitter
Write a sentence or 2 about your mediated
identity.
What message are you sending?

10.  At the point of
creation
 At the point of
consumption
Create a flow diagram
which depicts this. Use
images to illustrate this.
Post your diagrams to your blogs
Editor
Audience

11.  Define collective identity
 Explain ways in which identity is mediated
1.To what extent is human identity increasingly
mediated?
2. ‘Media representations are just reflections of
reality, not constructions or distortions’. Discuss
with reference to one or more groups of people.
On your blogs, write an answer to one of the
above questions in a sentence