Media Representations of ethnicity

Question 1

Representations of Criminality

Answer 1

Black people portrayed as criminal ie Halls study on the ‘black mugger’ moral panic

Question 2

Ethnicity as a Threat

Answer 2

Van Dijk found black people were often represented as a threat to the majority population, this is increasingly being applied to asylum seekers and to muslims (2024 riots)

Question 3

Marginalisation of ethnic group issues

Answer 3

reporting is ethnocentric- focuses more on the accomplishments of white individuals than those who are an ethnic minority

Question 4

Institutional Bias

Answer 4

media is institutionally racist, violent murders of BAME people are more heavily reported on than similar killings of white people, reporting of disasters seems to be much more excessive when it includes white victims.

Question 5

Tokenism

Answer 5

a black character being included just to ensure there is one

Question 6

Neo-Marxist view of Ethnicity & Media

Answer 6

Hall’s neo-Marxist perspective argues that media deliberately transmits negative representations of ethnic minorities, fostering audience complicity in forming crude stereotypes

Question 7

Pluralist Views of Ethnicity & Media

Answer 7

Pluralists believe that the media is not controlled by any single group. They argue that power is widely dispersed and that the media simply reflects the diverse interests of different groups in society

Question 8

Van Dijk

Answer 8

discusses criminality, threat, marginalisation, and tokenism

Question 9

Watson

Answer 9

Gangsta rap and knife crime moral panic (drill music-> more knife crime?)