Deviance and Media Part B

Question 1

what three cities had the most unrest and causalities?

Answer 1

• detroit
• newark
• la

Question 2

which President set up the Kerner Commission?

Answer 2

Johnson

Question 3

why did Johnson set up the commission?

Answer 3

• study riots and inform the government about why riots occurred

Question 4

what caused the riots in the US?

Answer 4

• general racism and discrimination
• report blamed white racism (rather than black anger)

Question 5

who was falsely blamed for the riots?

Answer 5

African American young men

Question 6

what did the media fail to do for the riots?

Answer 6

failed to accurately reflect scale and character of riots

Question 7

what are some of the problems with media’s portrayal of the commission?

Answer 7

• 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

Question 8

what other problems did the media fail to portray?

Answer 8

• race relations
• ills of the ghetto
• difficulties of life
• racism

Question 9

what standpoint did the media report from?

Answer 9

white man’s world

Question 10

what did the media emphasize on post-riot?

Answer 10

police response and narration of events rather than those involved in the riot
- viewed as race riot

Question 11

what did post-riot reviews emphasize?

Answer 11

• 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

Question 12

what did African American report during interview?

Answer 12

• 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

Question 13

what is an example of “putting on a show” for the media?

Answer 13

during WYATT case: news helicopters sent out to areas which incited violence

Question 14

deviance, media and sociological theorization

Answer 14

• critical theories
• administrative approach

Question 15

Ginsberg POV of media

Answer 15

• whoever control media/images = controls the culture

Question 16

Gibson POV of media

Answer 16

Canadians denied of their culture
- so obsessed with American that we are losing culture

Question 17

what are the critical approaches to the study of media/society?

Answer 17

• frames individuals
• social issues
• social groups
• health issues (vaping is framed as health issue/deviance/failure to protect society)

Question 18

what are the types of framing?

Answer 18

• conflict frame
• human interest frame (inflation, cost of food)
• economic consequences frame (pull out of CPP and make APP)

Question 19

what are the implications of social group framing?

Answer 19

• 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)

Question 20

what is media of ownership central to?

Answer 20

all critical theories

Question 21

what is the Marixt approach?

Answer 21

• ownership of means of production = power
• ownership influences content
• ownership increasingly concentrated, corporate empires control message

Question 22

what are trends in media ownership?

Answer 22

convergence
conglomeration
concentration

Question 23

what is convergence?

Answer 23

individual companies own multiple forms of media

Question 24

what is conglomeration?

Answer 24

companies merge or buy out others allowing them to create larger companies

Question 25

what is concentration?

Answer 25

small number of companies control most media products

Question 26

administrative approaches are also known as?

Answer 26

objectivist

Question 27

positivist, objectivist orientation focuses on what?

Answer 27

• 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)

Question 28

can the media be deviated?

Answer 28

yes
- books have been censored meaning authors are typed as socially deviant

Question 29

what book portrayed beastiality?

Answer 29

the bear
- women have sexual pleasure with a bear

Question 30

what is the media a site for?

Answer 30

deviance dance

Question 31

what is deviance dance?

Answer 31

interactions, negotiations, debates among groups with different perceptions of whether behavior or characteristic is deviant and needs to be socially controlled

Question 32

what is the media a tool for?

Answer 32

• deviant acts
• exert social control
• claims-making and counter-claims-making

Question 33

media-deviance nexus

Answer 33

• 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