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6. How is the working class changing?

  • Rich list and average pay increasing, socially excluded, mass unemployment, attack on council houses
  • Underclass more employed and gaining money, more connected, everyone better off
  • Middle class are seen as unfashionable and poor, attacks on working class, upperclass are the only privileged ones

7. Who is the dominant class identity when it comes to political and social influences?

  • Upperclass
  • Middle class
  • Working class
  • Underclass

8. What does the film Grimsby mainly focus on?

  • How much fun the people live there have
  • Only representing bad traits
  • How nice the town is

9. Why is Dmitri mocked in the Riot Club?

  • No heritage - Greek
  • Not having as much money as the rest of them
  • Does't want to take part in attacking the manager

10. What are the representations of upper classes British identities in the Riot Club?

  • In touch with class identities
  • Upper and lower class against each other, arrogant, powerful
  • Upper and lower class together, polite

11. How are media representations of the upper classes often divided?

  • Celebrating their lifestyles and on the other hand negatively exposing their power in society
  • Shows them as humorous but also as desirable
  • Celebrating their wealth but at the same time, exposing their outlook on other class identities

12. What does benefit fraud mean?

  • People scamming government
  • Frauds

13. Who are the top 1%?

  • Working class
  • Rich, wealthy, Royal Family
  • Middle class
  • Unemployed, poor, benefit street

14. What has Web 2.0 enabled active audiences to do?

  • Interact with and comment on the media and to become producers, as well as consumers
  • Access more content, whilst still being consumers
  • Allows them to be passive at the same time

15. What does underclass mean?

  • Lowest position in the class hierarchy - the poor and unemployed
  • Middle class
  • Not as privileged
  • Do not get paid much

16. What is David Gauntlett's perspective on identities?

  • Identities are not temporary
  • Identities are fluid (always changing)
  • Identities always remain the same

17. Why does social media offer a potential tool for challenging dominant ideologies?

  • Too many people are using it
  • It still sits outside of the traditional media outlets such as TV and film
  • It is far too vast for it to be regulated, especially Facebook and Twitter

18. Who is Ken Loach?

  • English film director who tends to focus on social issues in his films
  • English author who focuses mainly on identities in the media in his work
  • English film director who focuses on underclass in his films

19. Why does Gogglebox challenge negative perceptions of the working class?

  • North-working class
  • Chavvy-rottweiler
  • Nuclear Families, togetherness, family orientated, dressed smartly
  • Negative stereotypes

20. What is meant by 'British New Wave'?

  • British identities dominating
  • Media representations introduced characters with regional accents and a diverse range of backgrounds
  • Wave of new and digital media in Britain