Steve Bakers Theory

Steve Bakers - Representations

"Every time we encounter a media text, we are not seeing the reality, but someones version of it"

We cannot be 100% sure if what we see in the media is true or false
"The result of this process of mediation is that we are given a version of reality which is altered: those are never the real people that we are seeing but representations of them which have somehow been created"

"The media place us at one remove from reality: they take something that is real, a person or an event and they change its form to produce whatever the text we end up with"

Media text only show us what they want us to see, so sometimes we don't see the actually story or thing.

"We categorise people into types (E.G workaholic, feminist etc) to simplify the task of person perception"