Deviance and Media Part B Flashcards
what three cities had the most unrest and causalities?
- detroit
- newark
- la
which President set up the Kerner Commission?
Johnson
why did Johnson set up the commission?
- study riots and inform the government about why riots occurred
what caused the riots in the US?
- general racism and discrimination
- report blamed white racism (rather than black anger)
who was falsely blamed for the riots?
African American young men
what did the media fail to do for the riots?
failed to accurately reflect scale and character of riots
what are some of the problems with media’s portrayal of the commission?
- scare headlines
- reporters staged riot events
- quotes gov’t officials estimates of damage (inaccurate impressions)
- portrayed riots as “race riots”
- tended to stack stories - leads to problematic cumulative effect
- focused on race, not injustice
what other problems did the media fail to portray?
- race relations
- ills of the ghetto
- difficulties of life
- racism
what standpoint did the media report from?
white man’s world
what did the media emphasize on post-riot?
police response and narration of events rather than those involved in the riot
- viewed as race riot
what did post-riot reviews emphasize?
- legislation should be sought to control future rioting behavior
- control riot action/containment strategy
- underlying causes of riots not analyzed
- reaction by middle-class Africans/those in the ghetto not sought out
what did African American report during interview?
- white/police/media bias
- failure to report false arrests
- no voice for community affected
- white journalists = white man pov
- some reported they looted bc media was there
- put on a show for them
- encouraged by journalists
what is an example of “putting on a show” for the media?
during WYATT case: news helicopters sent out to areas which incited violence
deviance, media and sociological theorization
- critical theories
- administrative approach
Ginsberg POV of media
- whoever control media/images = controls the culture
Gibson POV of media
Canadians denied of their culture
- so obsessed with American that we are losing culture
what are the critical approaches to the study of media/society?
- frames individuals
- social issues
- social groups
- health issues (vaping is framed as health issue/deviance/failure to protect society)
what are the types of framing?
- conflict frame
- human interest frame (inflation, cost of food)
- economic consequences frame (pull out of CPP and make APP)
what are the implications of social group framing?
- social group not represented (internalized meaning: irrelevant)
- social issue associated with specific social group (poverty injustices- race riot)
- media presents singular image (internalized meaning: criminal, Mods and Rockers: violent can be internalized by others)
- impacts social policy (more law to address poverty/racism. if dr misdiagnoses you, treatment won’t work)
what is media of ownership central to?
all critical theories
what is the Marixt approach?
- ownership of means of production = power
- ownership influences content
- ownership increasingly concentrated, corporate empires control message
what are trends in media ownership?
convergence
conglomeration
concentration
what is convergence?
individual companies own multiple forms of media
what is conglomeration?
companies merge or buy out others allowing them to create larger companies
what is concentration?
small number of companies control most media products
administrative approaches are also known as?
objectivist
positivist, objectivist orientation focuses on what?
- determining what types of messages will result in certain outcomes in individuals
- cause and effect relationships (effect of media messages on individuals)
- determining what is needed to change people’s behavior (how do we convince people to stop smoking: higher taxes on cigs)
can the media be deviated?
yes
- books have been censored meaning authors are typed as socially deviant
what book portrayed beastiality?
the bear
- women have sexual pleasure with a bear
what is the media a site for?
deviance dance
what is deviance dance?
interactions, negotiations, debates among groups with different perceptions of whether behavior or characteristic is deviant and needs to be socially controlled
what is the media a tool for?
- deviant acts
- exert social control
- claims-making and counter-claims-making
media-deviance nexus
- media as a cause of deviance
- media is socially constructing deviance and normality
- media as a tool to commit acts of deviance
- media as a site where deviance dance is played out
- media is deviantized itself/subjected to measures of social control
