Stuart Hall Representation the Media (1997)

Cultural theorist Stuart Hall offers an extended meditation on representation Moving beyond the accuracy or inaccuracy of specific representations Hall argues that the process of representation itself constitutes the very world it aims to represent and explores how the shared language of a culture its signs and images provides a conceptual roadmap that gives meaning to the world rather than simply reflecting it Halls concern throughout is the centrality of culture to the shaping of our collective perceptions and how the dynamics of media representation reproduce forms of symbolic power