Quiz Pt.2

Mini Quiz Pt2

1. Name 3 keys differences between a broadsheet and a tabloid newspaper?

• Broadsheet is bigger than a tabloid.
• Broadsheet is 'actual news' whereas a tabloid is more gossip.
• Broadsheet is aimed at more higher class.
• Tabloids tend to have a red masthead.
• Tabloid's tend to have more images than 

2.  Define Polysemy

• Multiple meanings, there are different ways in which we can read them.

3. Define Bias

• Bias is the way that a certain media text is presented unfairly to one side due to the producers ideologies and beliefs. Favours one group over another.

4. What are two ways newspapers can be biased?

• Selection
• The photos used.
• The language used.
• Admission
• Leaving important stuff out.
• Positioning
• Front page news is more important to the producer.

5. Define agenda

• The aim of the newspaper
• Newspaper producers potentially try to manipulate the audiences ideologies.

6. What is ideology?

• The beliefs and ideas that the producer believes in.

7. What are the four steps of representation?

1. The group, place or issue on which a media text is focusing on.
2. The way that the producer presents these people through the use of media language.
3. The message behind this presented group.
4. The impact this presentation has on us as the audience.

8. Define Hegemony

• Where one group has power over another through consent.

9. What is the difference between sexualisation and objectification.

• 'astion' is a process, sexualised is a process of making something sexual, objectification is where you dehumanise something and make it into an object. 

10. What does Liesbet Van Zoonen theorise about gender?

• The idea that women's bodies are in the media to be looked at in the media by males to seem attractive.

11. What, arguably, is the difference between sex and gender?

• Sex is what you're born as however gender is what you view yourself as, people argue it is a performance and an act.

12. What is the biggest selling newspaper in the UK?

• The Sun