AQA GCSE Media Studies · 8572
Paper 1, Paper 2
Revise: Signs, communication and modes of addressAn icon, in the cultural or social sense used here, is a recognisable representation with lasting significance or influence. The TARDIS is an icon of Doctor Who: its appearance has come to represent the series. Its police-box form also connects it to the programme's historical context, when police boxes were familiar features of 1960s society and associated with law and order.