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In this essay I will be discussing the relationship between stereotyping and representation. Posing the question, do the media have an influence in society's perceptions on a particular group due to the images represented on that group, and whether this has a negative or positive effect? The best way to define stereotypes is a widely circulated prejudgement or assumptions about a particular group. Most stereotypes work by taking a common feature (true or false) on a particular group and manipulation audiences into thinking it's the norm by implying that all members of that group also share those features. Media is a very powerful tool within the world today, we see and use the media every day weather it be in a magazine, on the news, through advertising or on the internet, we use these elements of media so much that we ourselves aren't aware of the influences it gives through the use...

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