Representation I
Representation and Framing
Representation
Meaning and language are connected to culture
-Figuring out and understanding how meaning and language are connected
Making claims
-Aren’t always accurate or realistic
The ‘what’ of texts
The broad, what’s being described, the basic summary of something
Examples: Chapter 4 of textbook
-historical theories
How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring
-socio political unrest/tension in Egypt and Tunisia
Framing
Focuses on organization
The ‘how’ of texts
-how are representations organized
Boundaries and limits
-think literally about cropping a Facebook pic
Examples: Chapter 4 of textbook
-is it educational, frames production of pop culture in either economic or cultural world
How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring
The title frames it, eyes of citizens (perspective) is how they framed the situation
Both representation and framing rely on ideology
-personal subjectives/claims
-ex. chapter 3 case study on youth, framed as being criminals/threat/risky/dangerous/monitored by penocticon
News Values (Knight, 2004)
-values, shaping the way we interpret or understand
Immediacy
-what can be predicted/the twitterverse says
-news has competition, how news is framed
-consequences on how quick if mistaken
Example: Chilean Miners Rescue
-speculation on duration time and how to rescue details were inaccurate
Personalization
-reports and stories draw us in to things we like/feelings/emotions/experiences
-taps into sense of self
Example 2: Chilean Miners Rescue
-bringing us into the story
-each person got casted as characters as some sort of reality show
-heart warming stories (family men)/ dramatic stories (cheaters)
Extraordinariness
-conflict, crime, disaster
Dominant ideology is reinforced and has two effects:
1) creates the ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ or ‘good’ vs. ‘bad’