anchorage - Words that go along with images to give meaning to them, aspiration - A hope or ambition in life, audio codes - A persons voice, in terms of accent, dialect, or use of words, caricature - An exaggerated characterisation of someone. Often used to mock or satirise a type of person., construction - This is the way a media text is put together, crop - To remove the outer parts of an image in order focus on a particular aspect, culture - Describes the way of life, behaviours and beliefs of a particular group of people., dialect - The language of a particular subset of English speakers - often those living in a particular place, editing - The way that film / TV footage can be cut to make different meanings, editorial stance - An opinion on an issue or event which is reflected in a media text's coverage of it, ethnicity - Having the common features of a group or nation, gender - The range of characteristics relating to masculinity and femininity, including a range of identities that are outside of established ideas of male and female, ideology - A set of ideas or thoughts that someone, or a group of people, believe in., juxtaposition - To place two or more ideas/images close together to create further meaning, layout - The way that a page or document is set out with specific places for pieces of text or images., 'male gaze' - Term used in media studies theory to describe how media texts portray women from a male perspective, media text - Any media product such as a TV programme, film, magazine, video game, newspaper, or music track, mediation - This is the process everything goes through before it reaches an audience., mode of address - The ways in which a media text uses language to speak to its target audience, multiculturalism - A system that recognises and respects the value of all cultures within a community/society., ofcom - The Office of Communications - government-approved body which regulates the broadcasting industry, parody - An amusing imitation, sociological - Describes how society has developed and how it is organised, selection - This refers to what has been selected to include in a media text, stereotype - A conventional and standard view of someone or a type of people, visual codes - Iconography (the visual images or symbols that appear in a scene) can influence representation, patriarchy - a system of society or government in which men hold the power,

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