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March - Notes on Collective Identity

These are the questions and content which will be answered in the essay about the investigation into social identity;


- Research across 2 Media  (TV documentary, film)

- How group represents itself, using new media to communicate:
  using forums / social networking, gaming sites, tournements

- Are there limits to how they can express themselves? 
  Unregulated? Rules?
  Who are they imposed by? ......themselves?
  Are there legal limits?
  Boundaries of self expressions in new media

- How do they dominate the media space?

History:  awareness of 2 different periods of time
                   finding an earlier period that the social identity was part of. 
  Has it changed in gender, class ...etc?  How has it changed?
  Real social history

Collective identity and Mediation

- Theorists   (ie, Michael Wesch  - optimistic vs isolation)

Anonamy: connected but isolated
Features of what people experience in social identity

Collective identity has been theorisedThe relationship between the media & the group

Mediated: identity does not exist without media
                personalised media
                stereotyping
                cannot have an identity without the media

Reflecting & distorting:  the media finds and creates images of representation of the group, then reflects / distorts it. (Like a mirror, of somewhat distortion)

Media constructs and shapes identity,  re-invents identity
Soical groups do not exist without media.