What is Representation in Media?

1. Representation
Professor Ghasemitari
Presenter: Setareh Keyhani
February 24, 2020

2. Representation

3. Table
Representation
Definition
Literary Theory
Aristotle Theory
Media Studies
Types of Representation

4. Representation
Representation refers to the use of language and
images to create meaning about the world around us

5. Sounds, inscriptions, objects, images, books,
magazines and television programmes
They are produced, enacted, used and
understood in specific social contexts

7. Oxford Dictionary
To represent something is to describe it, to call it up in the
mind by description or imagination
To represent also means to symbolise

8. Literary Theory
In literary theory, 'representation' is commonly
defined in three ways:
1. To look like or resemble
2. To stand in for something or someone
3. To present a second time; to re-present

9. Aristotle Theory
Aristotle discusses representation in three ways:
1. The object: The symbol being represented
2. Manner: The way the symbol is represented
3. Means: The material that is used to represent it

11. Media Studies
The way they represent themselves to themselves and
to others
Advertising
Social media
Visual

12. Types of Representation
It refers to the creation in any medium of aspects
of 'reality' such as people, places, objects,
events, cultural identities and other abstract
concepts
Some of them may be in speech or writing as
well as still or moving pictures