Possible coursework ideas

1. The language of the media

• attitudes-how do people feel about this language?
• power of media text
• criticism of language use
• hidden meanings?
• portrayal of different social groups, gender, races, religions? etc.
• semantics
• stereotypes
• Encoding and decoding
• denotation and connotation

Gender and the media theory

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_and_gender
• John Berger "Men look, women appear" - women are solely for the objectification of men within all aspects of the media
• http://www.theoryhead.com/gender/extract.htm
•  http://coleshillmediasite.weebly.com/uploads/4/6/0/1/4601434/media_gender_and_identity.pdf
• Tim O Sullivan et al.(1998) "ideas about gender are produced and reflected in language"