Kristina's Media Blog: Different Perspectives

Most people view the media as the 'news', yet media is a medium and it has vast different meanings.
Representation is a re-presentation, how a group of event is constructed and presented.
Producers use representation to get their ideologies across.
Representation is used to draw in certain target audiences,e.g the target audience of The Daily Mail is women, and they would want to look at the women looking 'sexy' as they aspire to be like them.
Producers may use representation to manipulate the audience, and its cultivating the idea that women should look this way.
Entertainment value, it may be 'fun' to look at naked people.
Finical reasons as It draws in an audience.
It tells a story, and draws people to keep reading more.

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During horror films and crime shows, we see the investigation and the gory stuff, which we enjoy as we are positioned as the privileged person, as well get all the secret insight.

The fact that they mentioned the mans ethnicity, could be constructing a stereotype of Indian men, that they are the only types of people tat harm children, as The Times had no reason to mention it.

Seeing the image of the couple being happy and 'in love' is obviously before everything went wrong, tis is their equilibrium, and that gets ruined from the hammer attack. The use of making this into a story line draws in threader much more, to get the target audience to buy and read it.

The Daily Mirror would have had to of used more images, as the case is still going on and there is not much of a story to write about at the moment.

Looking at the images, they are supposed to make us feel angry and sad, very persuasive ad manipulative.

The body language of the child makes him look very worried, and it positions the audience as the killer.

The face of the baby girl blurred makes the story seem so much more serious, as that baby now needs its identity hidden, as she is under the age of 18, and it really shows that this story is real, the baby boys face is not blurred as he has passed and his face is not hidden for privacy reasons.

The man does not look British, he does not conform to the British stereotypes, which may be creating a stereotype for foreign members of society, as though they are outcasts and that they are very different to us.

According to The Times he is Indian, and in the Daily Mirror, assumed he had mental issues, making him appear different to the rest of society.

The Daily Mirror, did in fact not mention the man or women's race, as it is Left Wing newspaper, and they believe in much more equality for everyone. Yet The Times is far more Right Wig and they feel the need to mention the ethnicity of the couple.

If it was a newspaper it would be a broadsheet, as they talk about very political issues rather than say the 'celebrity gossip'

Allows open comments for the audiences to share their ideologies with each other in order to get the story viral, and also gets them to gain money every time when someone else clicks on it.

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