Representation in media can be unfair, biased, and promote harmful stereotypes. For example, representations of women in house music magazines are often oversexualized. An analysis of Google image search results for "female DJs" versus "male DJs" found that images of women were more likely to be sexualized and not actually show female DJs at work. Nightclubs and house music parties are also often misrepresented in media as places of excessive drunkenness and violence, when in reality this does not reflect most people's experiences. Representation plays a role in how different groups are perceived and can negatively impact careers if they promote unfair biases.

1. Representative Theory

2. Representation refers to the construction in any medium, in this case we are using media
and more specifically print media as the medium. Representation isn't just people. It can also
include places, object and actions. Gaze theory plays a big role in theory, it is how people
are seen through the eyes of others, for example presenting a man through the eyes of a
woman.
Representation however can be unfair, sexist and bias against something or someone, an
example of this is seen very heavily in the genre I am creating (house music magazine).
Woman are very over sexualized. I will explore and show this on a later slide.

3. I chose a selection of album artwork for house music tracks and compilations, I was bias
when choosing the covers admittedly picking the ones where women are sexualized, however
there are many covers like this and none that feature men being objectified. It is seen as
acceptable as house is linked with summer party and dressing in less clothing. This is why
you don’t see any other genres being so blatant.

4. A quick google search of “female DJs” and “male DJs” show
another completely different contrast in the genre. The male DJ
search returns a whole host of famous male DJs on the decks or
with a profile picture linking to an article about there success. The
Female DJ search does show a healthy host of female DJ’s
working however thrown in the mix is over sexualized images of
women who do not have anything to do with creating music and
instead are being used as either advertising for a club/ album or
something that has been created for the pure viewing pleasure for
people who enjoy the genre or to pull people in.

5. Out of 18 images I screen shot 5 of
them are in your face sexualizing
women and presenting them in a
suggestive manner. I have put a
red line through them to show.
Other images on the search show
women “playing innocent” for
example the picture shown in blue
the girl is posing for a picture
rather then actually producing. Like
many of the other images on the
search. While there is nothing
wrong with posing for an image the
search is not actually showing
many of the talented female DJ’s
because this is what people want
when they search for female DJ’s.
This makes the whole genre look
like it is run by men which is a
misrepresentation.

6. Google returns more images for
male DJ which is not surprising as
there are more male DJ’s in the
profession. More images are of
real DJ’s either posing for a picture
of actually working. There are a
few images that are generic shown
with a blue line. Again nothing
wrong with posing for an image.
The whole google comparison
shows how the female DJ’s are
represented by not actually really
being shown because they are
being over shadowed by contrived
false images.

7. The story is one with opposite results searching male clubber and female
clubber as the men are being shown trough the female gaze by being
topless and have an unrealistic body image, the women on the other
hand are shown to be dressed up and looking smiley and happy. Same
goes for the actions in the images, the men are shown to be on
substances and almost animalistic where the women have drinks but are
remaining sensible looking. This is again a misrepresentation of men as
in actual fact both parties enjoy a drink.

8. Night clubs are misrepresented as places where young
people go and get blind drunk, full of drugs and fight
openly. This is a misrepresentation created by the
media to put fear in people and put people off clubbing.
Media outlets such as BBC News and the Daily Mail
pick up on loose treads and create a big story about
something that didn't’ or doesn't happen. This is a
shame because the music was created quite recently
and so should not have any old prejudices linked with it.
Movies also give false representation to house parties
and clubs. The likes of project X show things vastly
blown out of proportion even though it was loosely
based on a true story things like this are not the norm.

9. My research on representative showed me that there is
misrepresentation to both sides of gender and to the industry in general
often created by parties that don’t really have an interest in the music. T