Representation: Using stereotypes to create meaning for audiences

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Find a selection of newspaper front pages that depict her and decide how she is being represented using stereotypes relating to masculine and feminine stereotypes. Outline these on your blog with some explanation. Can you use any of the ideas and academic arguments in your analysis?






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This front page shows the audience that if they do not vote for Teresa May then they will face 'disaster'. The audience should be open to vote for who they want to vote for. This newspaper straight away forces the audience to believe that they are involved as the newspaper does this by using the word 'we'. The Daily express is right wing.

















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