Talking to Gaymers: Questioning Identity, Community and Media Representation

Talking Torchwood: Fluid Sexuality, Representation and Audiences

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

social identity representation in media examining the social identity changes in women in the cinema after islamic revolution

supposing the reciprocity of relations between society and media, it is logical to investigate the social changes of women’s identity through inspecting the changes in women’s identity representation in media (particularly cinema). this paper aims to analyze the mutual effects of predominant social affairs of after-islamic revolution of iran on the manner of women’s representation in iran’s cin...

Identity, Community and Segregation

I develop a framework to explain why identity divides some communities and not others. An identity group is defined as a group of individuals with the same ‘culture’. A community is divided when different identities are socially segregated; a community is integrated when there is no social segregation between different identities. I find three possible outcomes for a community: assimilation, wh...

Cultural identity, representation, and Othering

Globalisation is not a new experience. The anthropologist N.P. Pieterse (2004) maintains that anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists and sociologists see it as a long-term historical process, which has witnessed, amongst others, the ancient population movements across and between continents and the diffusion of technologies (military technologies, numeracy, literacy, scie...