Psychology and Media: Advertising, Marketing and PR

Psychology and Media: Advertising, Marketing and PR

1. Examine the intersection of psychology and the media, by exploring the way difference signifies as Otherness, in media portrayals of sexuality, race, mental health or different examples of Otherness. Discuss your examples in terms of the issues raised on the course.
2. Discuss some of the ways in which psychology is implicated in current forms of government and regulation.
3. In the light of issues discussed on the course, discuss the problems and possibilities in the development of a 'black psychology'.
4. What value does the concept of contagious communication have in theorising media production and consumption? Illustrate your answer with historical and/or contemporary examples.
5. Critically analyse the concept of personality as it is mobilised in a range of sites which might include celebrity culture, for example.
6. Are human subjects created in discourse?
7. Take an example of a film, TV programme, piece of journalism, photograph, novel etc and discuss the way in which the truth about subjectivity is constructed in the work. Discuss this in the light of issues raised on the course.
8. Think about your own subjectification and subjectivity and in terms of the issues raised on the course, discuss aspects of your own formation referring to regulatory practices, texts, media texts, images and practices etc. Although this essay is intended to be autobiographical, telling your life story alone will not do! What you have to do is to attempt to use the theoretical frameworks and methods from the course to understand and analyse aspects of your own formation.
9. To what extent is sexuality invented rather than discovered? Discuss this statement in relation to your own experience and media examples.

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