Week 5

What?

Representation is "an artistic likeness or image" (Random House, 2001) to an original works or idea. The origin of representaion in english dates back to 1375–1425; Latin repraesentātiōn- (stem of repraesentātiō). It's the way that someone or something can shown or described. It needs to be factual and based on truths or it will be labelled as misrepresentation when discovered to based on lies.

So What?

Kano from the Mortal Kombat movies is a representation of a bogan Australian narcissistic and violent man. A lot of his traits I don't have myself except for the way he treats alcohol and jokes about situations irregardless of whether they are funny to others or just himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtVEEfsXX_A 0:13 of the clip is something I would say in real life to the letter.

What Now?

Media representation can skew the public eye on stereotypes and profiles, which can lead further prejudice. It can also shed a light on lesser spoken of idea's and cultures.

This class activity had me doing a deep dive on my snapchat Bitmoji. This is actually a fairly accurate representation of myself. The clothing are almost identical to pieces I personally own or would wear. The orange beard is accurate but the white hair more of an experiment on what I would look like with white hair. I liked it so much I kept it, still never worked up the courage to do it in real life.

References

Random House. (2001). Representation. In THE RANDOM HOUSE UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY (Fourth Edition, Vol. 1, p. 243). Penguin Random House.
Flash TV. (2021, April 25). KANO | The Most Hilarious Moments | MORTAL KOMBAT (2021). Youtube. Retrieved December 22, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtVEEfsXX_A

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