Media representations Flashcards
(23 cards)
how is ethnicity portrayed
negative and criminalised reinforcing institutional racism
Theyre underrepresented
Often type casted “illegal migrant
Postmodernism on ethnicity
stresses reisitance
Graunlett: media allows individuality and creativity, global hybridity
Hall et all on ethnicity stresses the ..
Policing the crises: moral panics
Tuchmann: symbolic annihilation meaning
the Marginalisation
Hoe do the media represent women
Women are objectified through
Mulvays: the male gaze theory. music and films
The cult of feminity in womens magazines
Symbolic annhilation, trivilized.
Mccrobbie- “girl power” promotion
Radical feminists- pornography is bad
Buttler says that gender is
Perfermative
Men are portroyed as
the provider, hero, emotionally distant
Connel: hegomonic masculinity
Sexuality is…
Maginalised; craig says to be a visible gay you need to meet certain requirements.
at el found that lesbian couples are veiwed as …
Just a phase and often sexualised for the male gaze.
Pluralists on sexuality say
Youtube stars now document their experiences
shows like euphoria showcase LGBTQ
Tv adverts feature gay couples (IKEA)
Rainbow washing
using LGBTQ for marketing and not being genuinely supportive. “pride for profit)
young people are veiwed as
trouble makers, victimes.
Moral panics:exaggerate subculters which creates Cohen: folk devils
82% focus on crime movies like “Skins”
elderly people are veiwed a s
A burden or invisable.
Sontage: double standards= elderly men are seen as wise
Biggs: grumpy,forgettful
Children are veiwed as
Innocent angels
helpless victims
Advertisment targets children.
Postman, childhood is dissapearing
Middle age dominate
but are also pressures.
mid life crisists
Guanllett: most important jobs are carried out by them
The w/c
Marginalised and sterotypes in a simplistic way
Lawler: “beneift scraungers” and “Chav”
Soaps help to communitise this class
Example, jermery kyle show
The m/c
Idiolised:social norm
Glamourised or hidden.
Bourdeau- the media legitimises m/c cultural capital whilst white collor crime is never focused on
Selective reporting theory :Altman
The consumerism of wealt, fast cars and designer clothes ect generates interest in thew/c
AO3 of class
The roayl family megan markle and harry.
Disability
The victim- charity case
The supercripple or Heroic overcomer: you have to over come not accept
the burden: a drain on everyone#
Findley: newspapers are more conserned with loss of independance
Marxists say that disablility is portrayed as
invisible and removed from mainstream. Theyre seen as unproductive
dependant on welfare
Feminists say that women with a disability aquire
double oppression
Postmodernism
A rise in user generated content gives diability people mpore angency
