In 2024, Paul Hodkinson argued that media does not present an accurate reflection of the world but instead presents a curated selection of incomplete and crafted images.
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The Short Version
The claim accurately captures Hodkinson’s 2024 argument in substance. In the 2024 edition, he presents media as selective and constructed rather than a simple reflection of reality. The wording here is a paraphrase, though “images” is narrower than his broader term “representations.”
Caveats
This is a paraphrase, not Hodkinson’s exact wording; he writes about “partial, manufactured representations,” not verbatim “curated selection of incomplete and crafted images.”
“Images” is narrower than the source material, which discusses media representations more broadly across media forms.
The idea is not presented as a new 2024 theory; Hodkinson is drawing on established media-representation scholarship.