Representation of Events: the Sun and the Election

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/6434539/Sun-2015-election-verdict-Tory.html

Beach Body Ready Controversy: ASA to investigate

The  'Beach body ready' campaign has created huge controversy. In London many of the posters in the underground were defaced and protests were planned in Hyde Park.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-32497580

Performer and body image campaigner Juliette Burton complained to the company on Twitter.

From Channel 4:

Huffington Post: includes comments from social media
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/23/beach-body-advert-vandalised_n_7124444.html

Channel 4:
http://www.channel4.com/news/beach-body-ready-ad-campaigners-are-terrorists-says-boss

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o4e29k0r02bptrr/Screenshot%202015-04-29%2017.09.53.png

Spot the intertextual reference on the above poster

Alternative Representations of the General Election 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/29/the-best-alternative-election-posters-in-pictures

These images by art students are from a competition run by the Guardian. Full details can be found on the link above.
Which one appeals to you? Why?

What is the ASA and what does it do?

Issues: Does this advert objectify or degrade women? ASA's decion

Read the articles from the links below and write a summary of the main points.
Do you agree with the ASA's decision?

Huffington Post: this contains references to other online media such as Twitter and Instagram. It also shows a picture of the huge advert on the corner of a building in Brick Lane, East London:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/04/28/cara-delevingne-naked-tom-ford-advert_n_7161338.html

Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3059927/Watchdog-says-nude-Cara-poster-NOT-offensive-bans-near-schools-Advertisement-does-not-degrade-objectify-women-ASA-rules-receiving-complaints.html

Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/29/ad-cara-delevingne-naked-asa?CMP=ema_546

Celebuzz.com
Cara Delvingne mocks The Tom Ford ad in which she appears with her own Photoshop version of the advert:
http://www.celebuzz.com/2014-08-22/cara-delevingne-mocks-her-own-nude-tom-ford-ad/

More about the Black Opium Advertising Campaign Complaints against it say it glamourises drug use:
Campaign:
http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/1329876/

Representation of Events

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz98Kzm7JMiCS3JscEFCdzRLaHM/view?usp=sharing

Express: Clarkson's sacking

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/566567/Top-Gear-Jeremy-Clarkson-BBC-Two-sacking-Argentina-Falklands-Falkland-Islands-numberplate

Paul Staines from Guido Fawkes on Axing Jeremy Clarkson

National and Regional Identity

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz98Kzm7JMiCa29FNEl2Yjc1ajA/view?usp=sharing

NY Trailers