Question 4) To what extent is human identity increasingly mediated.

Within David Gauntletts videos overall he was trying to show how you can only get a truthful representation of identities if you let them express themselves in a creative way. In this example it was the use of lego to represent the volunteers and show parts of their personalities and to show who they think they are themselves and how they want to be represented.

So therefore this will help us when answering the question 'To what extent is human identity increasingly mediated' in many ways. For example in the media the people in which are portraying individuals identity is actually the people creating the sources of media. Such as 'The Press' 'Television' 'Music' and many other media areas. So therefore instead of letting the individuals represent themselves how they think they should be shown, the people who are writing the articles and programmes are the people giving their own representation of the identities.

From this you can see that David Gauntlett stated that you can only get the truth of identities if the people themselves are allowed to creatively represent themselves. Where as in the media the truth of the human identities is being twisted (mediated).