Constructive Representations

Constructive Representation

Advantages of bias in newspapers:

- Unable to hold back bias

- Bias allows to target an audience 

Why would a newspaper wish to manipulate an ideology?

Differences between Tabloid & Broadsheets

- A tabloid has less elegant vocabulary then a broadsheet

- A broadsheet involves more heavy and informative articles, usually in long articles that involves more attention for the reader to fully digest the content itself

- Tabloids mostly lack morals when it comes to the presentation of articles, giving little consideration to people who may be offended by the content

 - Tabloids have larger images that takes less effort to digest the content.

Polysemy 

- Not everything has a single meaning. One of the best ways of applying Media theory, is through 

suggesting two or more possible meanings

- In creating a newspaper, producers typically want to avoid polysemic reading. The process of 

forcing an audience in to a particular reading in anchoring 

Anchorage 

- The 'fixing' of a particular meaning to a media product, usually through captions
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Can representations construct reality?

Construct - the creation of something through work

Bias - having a particular opinion that will affect the messages and wording of a topic

Agenda - the ideologies that are trying to come across