The media product represents social groups by featuring young artists in various poses. One artist is depicted at a party to represent the raving youth aspect, while another is shown meditating to subvert stereotypes of young people. Most hip hop artists are young, so focusing on young musicians adequately represents the hip hop genre collectively while subverting traditional representation methods and conveying messages beyond typical tough or macho hip hop poses.

1. 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?I’ve used a varying number of young artists. One of the pictures is a picture of the artist in a party giving that ‘raving’ aspect of the youth. One of the artists is in a meditative position, subverting from stereotypical representations of the younger generation. Primarily the use of young artist, as hip hop is mainly (not strictly) comprised of young musiciansCollectively I am subverting the traditional methods

2. Conventional poses represent the hip hop genre adequately.This particular pose, the folding of the arms conveys an ‘untouchable’, ‘tough’, ‘macho’ message which is often a connotation with hip hop.