2. MEDIA SOCIOLOGISTS (DISABILITY, SEXUALITY, ETHNICITY) Flashcards
(27 cards)
Who found that there are 3 stereotypes of disability in film? What are the stereotypes?
Cuberbatch and Negrine
1. Criminal
2. Subhuman
3. Powerless/pathetic
Who found 10 stereotypes of disability in the media? Name 3 of these stereotypes
Barnes
1. Pitiable
2. Object of curiousity
3. Object of violence
4. Evil
5. Super-cripple (overcoming)
6. Laughable
7. Their own owrst enemy
8. Burden
9. Non-Sexual
10. Unable to participate in daily life
Who argued disabled feel more positive about their self-image?
Olney and Kim
Who argued that the depiction of disability is simplictic and is an ‘lazy shortcut’ for entertainment?
Tom Shakespeare
Which organisation found that soaps and dramas portray disability sympathetically? (positive)
Time to change
Who argued there’s an increase in articles that link disability to benefit scrounding?
Briant et al
Who argued there’s a diversity in new identities in film? (Postmodernist)
Gauntlett
Who found that 80% of representations of disabilty related to mobility, sensory issues or mental illnesses = oversimplifying?
Cumberbatch
Who argued that the wheelchair is often used as an icon to represent disability?
Sanch
Who argued that in manstream media lesbianism is invisible?
Batchelor
Who argued the representations construct signifiers of gayness, although irl it’s impossible to say if someone is gay?
Dyer
Who argued there are 3 media signifiers of gayness? What are these?
Craig
1. Camp - exaggerated, colourful figures of fun
2. Macho - exaggerated masculinity
3. Deviant - evil or acting devious
Which organisation found that gay characters are portrayed in 5% of programmes and a lot of these portrayals are negative?
Stonewall
Which organisations found that lesbianism is over-sexualised to please male viewers?
Stonewall and LGBT.co.uk
who argued that the representatons of AIDS differed depending on the media?
Cricher
What’s the case study to demonstrate the LGBT empowerment in the new media?
2020 BBC same-sex kiss
Which social media analytics took found that there were twice as much social media posts dedicated to the death of white girl compared to Sabina Nessa?
Crowdtangle
Who argued that media implies that white lives are more important than the other ones ? - institutional racism
Van Dijk
Who criticised the imbalance between the coverage of deaths of Tom ap Rhys Pryce and Balbir Matharu?
Ian Blair (87% & 13%)
Who argued that there’s a common stereotype that ethnic minorities are posing a threat to the majority white culture which leads to the construction of moral panics?
Van Dijk
Who analysed British media and found that most articles focused othering muslims or covering terrorism?
Moore et al
Who argued journalists depict hijab as a patriarchal form of control reducing muslim women to being victims?
Ameli
Who argues the concept of citizen journalism and participatory culture? (ethnicity)
Jenkins
Who argued that the construction of moral panics around ethnic minorities during 70’s muggings is a distraction from the failings of capitalism?
Hall
