This document discusses celebrity representation in the media and asks the reader to consider how representations are constructed, whether celebrity representations are more powerful than other representations, and the importance of celebrity to the media industry. It prompts the reader to watch a video on Jade Goody's life and death and reflect on how the media shapes celebrity images and how reliant the industry is on famous people.

1. Representation: Celebrity
Watch Charlie Brooker’s take
on the life and death of Jade
Goody.
Consider the following
questions and make notes.
1. How does the article help
us understand that a
celebrities representation is a
‘construction’?
2. Are celebrity
representations more
It would be unlikely that you powerful than the
would answer a question about representation of characters
narrative and magazines – in other texts?
however, could we say that
the media uses narratives in 3. How important is the
the construction of celebrity? notion of celebrity to the
If so, why do they? media industry?