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1. Taking a recent event, discuss how a poststructuralist media psychology might extend our understandings of mass psychology? Essay Plan below:

Answer: General Approach: This essay will consider subjectifications of how social reality hangs together and the way it is constructed for the masses, I will use the London riots as my contemporary event which took place on the 4th of August. A poststructuralist media psychology view may be more susceptible to the ways in which mass audiences conceptualize events around them, using technologies of subjectification, language and concepts but I will examine and argue which understandings may be deemed relevant or which may be less insightful. Introduction: This essay will discuss in-depth the psychoanalytical processes that may or may not affect a group at large (the masses), whilst paying close attention to historiography and past disciplines that have been put forward by key thinkers. This Essay will resonate in enumerating the factors capable of making an impression on the minds of crowds, why it began? Who were the more suggestible beings? What were the consequences? Whilst paying particular attention to the view of poststructuralist media psychology. Taking the stance of a poststructuralist I will discover how the riots were performed and structured giving an analytical reasoning of the psychology behind the crowds, I shall look at truth, reasoning and objectivity aided by some media techniques, semiotics, connotations etc. To argue whether the individuals with in a group are essentially made in their nature to be non conforming citizens or constructed to be. I will demonstrate this using language and concepts to develop an understanding which will be a subjective explanation. Points to consider: Binary oppositions- Not many people involved in the riots appeared to be old, white and middle class. This results in audiences to believe much of the rioting was bestowed upon youthful, black working class folk. The watching eye of CCTV in regards to Candid Camera- Candid camera has been referred to as a powerful tool to read audiences reactions as itâ