When analysing representation, try to answer these five questions:
1.What sense of the world is this text making?
What kind of world does this text construct?
2.What does this text claim is typical of this world?
How are familiar types used as a form of shorthand to represent people?
3.Who is really speaking?
Who is in control of the representations in the text – whose values and ideologies are
expressed?
4.For whom?
Will different audiences make different readings?
5.What does it represent for us and why?
To what extent are the representations part of the struggle in the “real world” to either
maintain or change the power relationships between groups of people or sets of values
and ideologies?
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