Booklet 2

Question 1

What did Milliband say?

Answer 1

• ruling class use social media to control society by creating false picture of reality that presents capitalism in a positive way
• media is the new opium of the people

Question 2

What is a media example for Miliband?

Answer 2

• Tik tok encourages mindless scrolling to distract from exploitation

Question 3

What did Curran say?

Answer 3

• owners directly manipulating media content
• politicians believe media moguls have control over media content so try to collaborate

Question 4

What is a media example for Curran?

Answer 4

• Rupert Murdoch owns majority of media outlets so most likely biased

Question 5

What did Bagdikian say?

Answer 5

• number of corporations controlling the US news media concentrated from 50 to 7

Question 6

What is a media example for Bagdikian?

Answer 6

• Rupert Murdoch owns majority of media outlets so most likely biased

Question 7

What did Gilroy say?

Answer 7

• black crime form of political resistance from racist and repressive state
• media created folk devil and generated deviancy amplification

Question 8

What is a media example for Gilroy?

Answer 8

• Notting hill carnival, emphasis on crime from black individuals rather than police

Question 9

What did Hall say?

Answer 9

• white eye black people represented as natives, slaves and entertainers

Question 10

What is a media example for Hall?

Answer 10

• Top boy

Question 11

What did the Glasgow media group say?

Answer 11

• working class presented in negative stereotyped way
• research covered working class issues such as strikes and representations of immigrants

Question 12

What is a media example for the Glasgow media group?

Answer 12

• headlines about teacher strikes

Question 13

What did Whale say?

Answer 13

• what we see in press is determined by its readers

Question 14

What is a media example for whale?

Answer 14

• hillsborough disaster, Liverpool fans boycotted the sun, 97 crushed

Question 15

What did Williams say?

Answer 15

• journalists vital in democratic society to provide public with information to participate in political and cultural life
• free press vital for democracy as censorships lead to biased views

Question 16

What is a media example for Williams?

Answer 16

• Matt Hancock affair

Question 17

What did the fourth estate of democracy say?

Answer 17

• media acts as a 4th estate of democracy as it provides information needed to make proper informed decisions about society and not act out of ignorance or due to lack of information about consequences of our decisions

Question 18

What is a media example for the fourth estate of democracy?

Answer 18

• BBC news teaches about the economy and current affairs

Question 19

What did Mulvey say?

Answer 19

• male gaze

Question 20

What is a media example for Mulvey?

Answer 20

• Movie transformers, suggestive angles and over sexualisation of female characters

Question 21

What did Wolf say?

Answer 21

• women socialised to conform to beauty myth and develop a false consciousness

Question 22

What is a media example for Wolf?

Answer 22

• cosmopolitan magazine, catering to men, heavily edited pictures

Question 23

What did Mcrobbie say?

Answer 23

• magazines have impact on identity and distinct focus on fashion, lifestyle, love and beauty

Question 24

What is a media example for Mcrobbie?

Answer 24

• ‘Hollys secret shame’ Heat

Question 25

What did McLuhan say?

Answer 25

• global village
• predicted that postmodern world create new pattern of communication and social interactions
• globalisation of media offer choice on identity

Question 26

What is a media example for McLuhan?

Answer 26

• Tik tok bring information about fashion from all across the globe to help construct identities

Question 27

What did Strinati say?

Answer 27

• capitalist countries media saturated as people engage with a range of media products and forums
• erosion of identity as the diversity offered by media means there are no traditional representations of social groups

Question 28

What is a media example for strinati?

Answer 28

• social media apps saturate the media and are used to construct identities

Question 29

What did Baudrillard say?

Answer 29

• media saturation means it’s difficult to identity what is real and what is fake causes hyper reality and simulacra
• so much information that it has to be diluted which gives power to media producers

Question 30

What is a media example for Baudrillard?

Answer 30

• Covid news, difficult to differentiate between reality and fake becoming simulacra