Year 12 - Representations of Class in the Media

Discuss these questions in pairs:

1.  What representations of class do we see daily in the Media?
2.  Which programmes represent the lower classes?
3.  What stereotypes are created by the Media of class?
4.  What's the difference between North and South in terms of class?
5.  What are the main interests of people in TOWIE?  What idologies does it create?  How are these ideologies different from Made in Chelsea?
6.  What marketing have you seen for any of these sorts of shows and what does it tell us about them?

Watch these clips and consider how they represent themselves and what sorts of realities and identities are being constructed.  In what ways are these programmes very post modern?