Representation Theories

RICHARD DYER
' How we are seen determines how we are treated, how we treat others is based on how we see them. How we see them come from represenation' Richard Dyer believes that how something is represented is how we are determined to look at it. the media mould a figure and we we go by what it proclaims.
http://www.slideshare.net/fleckneymike/representation-theory-2458490 -The matter of Images

'This is what everyone- you , me and us- think members of such-and-such a social group are like ' - The role of stereotypes essay.

http://www.english-e-corner.com/comparativeCulture/core/deconstruction/frameset/stereotype.htm


counter argument:




DAVID GAUNTLETT
aregues that through making things, online or offline we make connections with others and increase our engagement with the world. He points to a shift from 'sit down and be told' culture to a more creative 'making and doing' culture.

http://www.theory.org.uk/david/effects.htm

Participitation culture, creativity, and social change:



counter argument:


LAURA MULVEY
She argues that plaesure needs to be destroyed, in particular she is not acceptant of how the unconscious structures our ways of seeing and understanding the world.



http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaelwalford/entry/laura_mulvey_and/


Books:
Death tweenty four times a second: Stillness and the movign image
(London Reaktions books, 2006)

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