Representations

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A player’s representation of themselves within a game

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Conventions

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What the audience expects to see from a text, useful headings of conventions are characters, setting, iconography, narrative, technical codes and representation

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Ethnocentric

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A belief in the superiority of one’s own ethnic group or culture

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Hegemony

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Dominance of one group over another, supported by legitimising norms and ideas

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Ideology

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A set of messages, values and beliefs that may be encoded into media products

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Masculinity

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The perceived characteristics generally considered to define what it is to be a man, these can change according to sociological and cultural variations

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Misrepresentation

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Certain social groups (usually minority groups) may be represented in a way that’s inappropriate and not based on reality

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Patriarchal culture

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A society or culture that’s male dominated

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Representation

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The way in which key groups or aspects of society are presented in the media, a re-representation or constructed version of that which is shown

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Sexual objectification

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The practice of regarding a person as an object to be viewed only in terms of their sexual appeal with no consideration of any other aspect of their character or personality

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Stereotype

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• An exaggerated representation of someone or something
• Where a certain group are associated with a certain set of characteristics

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Underrepresentation

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Certain social groups (usually minority groups) may be rarely represented or be completely absent from media products