Re-presentation: selection, construction and mediation — Eduqas GCSE Media Studies C680
Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680
Re-presentation: selection, construction and mediation
Representation
What you need to know
Why the media re-present rather than simply present the world: every representation is selected, constructed and mediated.
The choices producers make about events, social groups and ideas, and how purpose (to sell, inform, persuade or entertain) shapes those choices.
Self-representation, such as an artist's website and social media, and how representations carry viewpoints, messages, values and beliefs.
Why some representations seem more realistic than others, and how that sense of reality is constructed.
Stuart Hall's view of representation as a process of selection and construction, and Dyer's idea of the star as a constructed image: useful perspectives, though not ones the specification requires.
The set products for 2027 and 2028 exams are the Vogue and GQ covers; the Man with the Golden Gun and No Time to Die posters; the Guardian of 18 January 2022 and the Sun of 1 January 2021 (2027 exams only), then the Guardian of 6 May 2025 and the Sun of 22 March 2025 (2028 exams); the Quality Street and NHS 111 adverts; the Sun, Desert Island Discs, No Time to Die and Fortnite for industries and audiences; Trigger Point with The Sweeney, or Man Like Mobeen or Modern Family with Friends; and Lizzo or Taylor Swift, Stormzy or Justin Bieber, and Rio or Waterfalls. This Girl Can, The Archers and Luther were last set for 2026 exams, so past questions on them are practice only.
