Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ-XVTzBMvQ

In this video: "Cultural Criticism and Transformation (Part Two): Motivated Representations"

Bell Hooks says: "And the ironic thing is that I can sit in classrooms, in universities where my students don't want to accept that someone consciously creates that representation" (1997).

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

USING THE POSTMODERN PARADIGM:

Within a postmodern paradigm, what is "true" is not the issue, rather this paradigm focuses on how notions of what is truebecome perpetuated and/or challenged within society. Central here is the assumption that experiences do not pre-exist language, rather they are manufactured bylanguage (Hollway 1989, 36). As such, all knowledge and ideas about what is true are produced; they aresocial constructions. Qualitative research that is guided by a postmodern paradigm is aimed atdeconstructing language and in doing so, fostering insights that have the potential to lead tosocial change. As a guiding set of assumptions, a postmodern paradigm casts media as producing notions of what is true throughrepresentations, ortexts, that take various forms, such as language, visual images, and music.

Answer these questions in detail:

1. What is your response to the analyses that are made by bell hooks and Stuart Hall in this lesson?
2. For example, were there important 'take-away' points for you, and if so what were these?
3. Discuss whether, how, and to what extent have their analyses impacted how you think about what you see in the media?