1. By Tina, Taylor and Sophie
REPRESENTATIONS AND
STEREOTYPES

2. Media representations are the way in which the
media portrays a particular group, communities,
experiences, ideas or topic for a particular
perspective.
REPRESENTATIONS

3. Male and female are not representations of gender where as
masculine and feminine are.
REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER

4. Age:
• Babies
• Children
• Teenagers
• Adults
• Middle age
• Old people
REPRESENTATIONS OF AGE

5. Ethnicity:
• British
• American
• Spanish
• Greek
• Turkish
• Australian
• African
• Jamaican
• Indian
REPRESENTATIONS OF
ETHNICITY

6. Sexuality:
• Heterosexuality
• Homosexuality
• Bisexuality
• Asexuality
• Poly sexuality
• Pan sexuality
• Tran sexuality
REPRESENTATIONS OF
SEXUALITY

7. Class: location
• Lower-class
• Second-class
• Middle-class
• Upper-class
• First-class
• Working-class
Status: power
• Leaders
• Beginners
• Royals
• Government
• parents
REPRESENTATIONS OF CLASS
AND STATUS

8. Mass media represents disability to be generally negative. People with
disabilities are shown not to have there own identities and often under the
care of someone else.
Typical representations are that they are pitiful and innocent.
REPRESENTATION OF PHYSICAL
ABILITY/DISABILITY

9. Regional identity:
• Country side
• Essex
• City
• Village
• Newcastle
• London
• Norfolk
REPRESENTATIONS OF
REGIONAL IDENTITY

10. STEREOTYPES
Stereotypes are the grouping of things due to the way they are presented.
Mainly of people.

11. Old people:
• Grey hair
• Wrinkles
• False teeth
• Bad hearing
• Crippled
AGE STEREOTYPES
Teenagers:
• Spotty
• Loud
• Listen to music
• Moody
Babies
• Snotty
• Stupid
• Small
• Chubby
• cute

12. Feminine:
• Like pink
• Like flowers
• Like cooking
• Like make up
GENDER STEREOTYPES
Masculine:
• Like cars
• Like Blue
• Like getting dirty
• Like science

13. French people:
• Sell onions
• Eat snails, French stick
and frogs legs
• Wear stripes
• Wear berets
ETHNIC STEREOTYPES
Jamaican people:
• Eat jerk chicken
• Wear colourful hats
• Have dread locks
• Bob Marley
• Smoke ganja
English people:
• Gentlemen and
ladies
• Wear top hats
• Wear bowler hats
• Play polo and tennis
• Have walking sticks
• Drink tea

14. Homosexual males:
• Camp
• Wear pink
• Act feminine
• Get highlights
• Care about there looks
SEXUALITY STEREOTYPES
Homosexual females:
• Butch
• Act manly
• Have piercings
• Act masculine
• Have cropped hair

15. Upper class/Posh people
• Snobby
• Rude
• High self importance
• Have private education
CLASS AND STATUS STEREOTYPES
Lower class people
• Live in council flats
• Live on benefits
• Have wreckless children
• Get in trouble with the law
Business people
• Carry a brief case
• Travel on trains
• Read broad sheet news papers
• Wear suits and ties

16. People in wheelchairs
• Are nerds
• Wear glasses
PHYSICAL ABILITY AND
DISABILITY STEREOTYPES
Physically able people
• Are sporty
• Go to the gym
• Look after their body
Physically disabled people
• Are week
• Helpless
• Needy
• A burden
• Pitiful
• Bitter (chip on shoulder)

17. People live in the country
• Live on a farm
• Wear informal clothes
• Have a country accent
• Are not very
clever/uneducated
• Laid back
• Own a gun
REGIONAL IDENTITY
STEREOTYPES
People from cities and towns
• Have well paid jobs
• Wear suits
• Travel on trains
• Live in modern pent houses
People from Newcastle
• Wear Tarty clothes
• Party a lot
• Don’t have self respect
• Drink a lot
• Work out
People from Essex
• Dress up smart
• Wear dresses
• Fake tan
• Fake nails
• High heels
• Speak in a particular
way

18. Verisimilitude is the quality of appearing to be close to
real life. For example a Tv drama, such as eastenders is
not real life because no one lives in that way, its scripted
and made up to create action and drama. The Tv dramas
take the basics of real life and over exaggerates.
VERISIMILITUDE