1. THE DEATH OF FREDDIE GREY
FUTURE?
THE DEATH OF FREDDIE GREY
THE WIRE
OCR
‘Majority of the answer must focus on the contemporary examples’
A ‘historical’ text
Contemporary news texts

2. OCR KEY QUESTIONS
How do the contemporary media represent regions/ethnic/social/collective groups of people in different ways?
How does contemporary representation compare to previous time periods?
What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people?
To what extent is human identity increasingly ‘mediated’?
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3. THE WIRE
A ‘historical’ text

4. THE SETTING: BALTIMORE
Early 20th Century: African- Americans from the rural South moved north in great numbers.  Baltimore became a major destination for southern blacks fleeing poverty and Jim Crow, seeking jobs and a better place to raise their children.  
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5. THE SETTING: BALTIMORE
Prior to 1900, predominantly African- American neighbourhoods did not exist in Baltimore.
Between 1950 and 1970, Baltimore’s African-American population almost doubled, while whites moved away from the City.  
As a result, by 1997, Baltimore had gone from less than one-quarter to nearly two-thirds black.
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6. THE SETTING: BALTIMORE
1990 – 2000: the number of African-Americans living in the City declined for the first time, while the most recent census report shows a decline in Baltimore’s black population roughly equal to that of its white population.
The City’s polarization is defined by economic class not ‘race’.
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7. THE SETTING: BALTIMORE
Two realities
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8. WHO?
The law
The street
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9. Our collective group
African American men
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11. COLLECTIVE IDENTITY
“Identity is complicated- everybody thinks they’ve got one”- David Gauntlett “ A focus on Identity requires us to pay closer attention to the ways in which media and technologies are used in everyday life and their consequences for social groups” -David Buckingham “ the media do not construct collective identity, they merely reflect it”
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12. DAVID SIMON
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13. DAVID SIMON
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14. BARACK OBAMA
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