The document discusses representations of immigration in recent news reports from UK right-wing tabloids and the Guardian. It provides links to 4 news articles - two from the BBC about portrayals of immigrants in tabloids and policies of the Conservative party, and two from the Guardian criticizing the portrayal of immigrants as threatening and policies making it harder for some to gain citizenship or remain in the UK.

1. Examples of current representations of immigration in UK’s right wing tabloids.
Read these news reports:
1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50054915
2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41648865
3. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/24/immigrants-britain-conservative-priti-
patel-sajid-javid
4. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/immigrant-home-office-british-citizenship-
hostile-environment

8. Answer the following questions (Representation and ideology)
 Who constructed this text? What other texts have they
constructed?
 In what context was this text constructed? What do we know about
the time and place where this text was constructed?
 What generic codes and conventions are being used in the text?
 Is this a typical text of its genre or context (time and place)?
 What representations are being used in this text to create meaning?
 What meaning has been encoded into the text?

9. Answer the following questions (Audience analysis)
 Who is this text aimed at? (Who is the target audience?)
 What assumptions are made about the audience which are revealed in the
text’s construction?
 Where and when is the audience likely to receive the text?
 How does this influence the form and structure of the text?
 How will this audience likely ‘read’ this text? (Reception theory)
 How does this text conform to audience expectations?
 What previous experience does the audience use when consuming this text?
 How may the audience create meaning from this text? (Reception theory)
 How might this influence the meaning they receive?

10. Analysis of a media text applying academic theories
 Write a 500-800 words essay analysis answering the previous questions and applying at least two of the
audience theories studied, articulating these with at least two of the representation theories studied:
 Audience theories studied that could be suitable in the analysis of these cases of study:
 Effects theory
 Social cognitive theory
 Cultivation theory
 Reception theory
 The uses and gratifications theory
 Representation theories studied that could be suitable in the analysis of these cases of study:
 Stuart Hall’s stereotypes and symbolic power theory
 Paul Gilroy’s Post colonial melancholia theory