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Unit 3: Participation
Quick questions on Representations in participatory media: QCE Film, Television and New Media
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What is representations as a key concept in Unit 3?Show answer
A representation is a constructed version of reality, a re-presentation that has been selected, shaped and framed. Every moving-image product represents people, places, events and ideas through deliberate choices. In Unit 3 the focus is the participatory context: representations are now made and remade by ordinary audiences, not only by studios and broadcasters.
What are audiences?Show answer
The audience is now also the author; participation collapses the line between who is represented and who represents.
What are institutions?Show answer
Platforms still set the rules of visibility, so institutional power shapes which participatory representations spread and which stay invisible.
What are technologies?Show answer
Cheap cameras and editing apps lower the barrier to self-representation, while algorithms decide whose representations surface.
What are languages?Show answer
Representations are built from codes; the same camera and editing choices that construct meaning in Unit 4 construct participatory representations here.
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