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ESSAY TOPIC
Choose a media representation and identify how it constructs its audience. Use Graeme Turner?s analysis of Sarah Jackson?s ?Hamid Karzai portrayal? as an exemplar.
Your essay should address the following three areas:
? What do you believe the ?preferred reading? will likely be, i.e., what kinds of roles/subject positions are viewers/listeners/readers expected to assume? what conclusions does the preferred reading encourage us to form about the topic represented?
? Can you think of one or more alternative interpretations that could be based on the same representation? Provide examples.
? Discuss some of the characteristics of both representations (texts) and audiences (readers) that make plural interpretations not only possible, but also probable.
