Collective Identities: David Gauntlett

" Identity is complicated- everybody thinks they've got one"- David Gauntlett

 

 

 Representation: the way reality is 'mediated' or 're-presented to us.

Collective Identity: the individuals sense of belonging to a group (part of personal identity)

                   Mediation
         Reality  ^^^^ Media
                   (Exaggeration
                               Sterotypes)
                               
David Gauntlett a professor of media and communications at Westminister Univeristy, author of several books including Media, Gender and Identity (2002) In 2007 he was shortlisted for young acdemic author of the year.

He believes you can express your identity in a creative form. For example the lego pieces