Representation- is the meaning in which the way things are depicted.
The media have "The power to represent the world in certain ways. And because there are so many different and conflicting ways in which meaning about the world can be constructed, it matters profoundly what and who gets left out, and how things, people, events and relationships and represented".
(Stuart Hall 1986)
Richard Dyer argues that representation is a political tool:
On how social groups are treated in cultural representation is part of a parcel on how they are treated in everyday life. However he also highlights the complications in theories which focus on the negative representations of class, race and sexuality.
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