Media Representations

Question 1

Cohen

Answer 1

The media generate a moral panic against the folk devils who treat society - young people are often blamed through this

Question 2

White et al.

Answer 2

Audiences accuse the media of being insulting of older people

Question 3

Curran and seaton

Answer 3

Newspapers aimed at the working class have little interest in current affairs but instead focus on exaggerated human interest stories

Question 4

Hall et Al.

Answer 4

Moral panic of the ‘black mugger’ in 1970’s lead to black people becoming folk devils, distracting from wider social and economic crisis at the time

Question 5

Mulvey

Answer 5

Male gaze in media content, women being veiwed as an erotic object

Question 6

McRobbie

Answer 6

New form of popular feminism in a post modern society has emerged which promoted independence

Question 7

Van dijk

Answer 7

Black men are: criminals, threats or unimportant

Question 8

Mort

Answer 8

Metrosexual male

Question 9

Gill

Answer 9

Gay men rarely represented in a sexualised way, lesbians over sexualised - male gaze

Question 10

Barnes

Answer 10

Disables people presented as a burden and are often patronised

Question 11

Tuchman et Al

Answer 11

women’s achievements are ignored this suffer symbolic annihilation