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deviance + media Flashcards

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what is the media?

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any form of communication that target a mass audience in print of electronic format

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how has the reach of the media / internet changed from 2000 to 2019?

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dramatic increase
internet: 52 - 98%

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what happened to the other forms of media?

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decrease!
TV: 98 - 93%
radio: 95 - 88%
magazine: 75- <50%
newspaper: 80 - <50%

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what did charles wright think the function of the media in society is?

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structural functionalist
the media keeps us in order:
- CBC connects all of us to maintain social cohesion
- brings in people and provinces from all over
- brings us all together so we know what happens all over canada

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charles wright stated media contributes to social order by 4 functions, what are they?

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  1. surveillance of environment: ways that information is collected and disseminated in society
    ex. journalists and editors pick out relevant information and deliver it to us
  2. correlation of society: ways that information about our world is interpreted and prescriptions for behavior in response to events
    ex. fort mac fire; relied very heavily on the radio to find out what highways to take, where to go
  3. transmission of social heritage: communication of information, norms, values from generation to generation
  4. entertainment: communication intended to amuse / relax
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we believed that media is responsible for discrepancy between?

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dropping rates of crime and the perception that youth crime is out of control

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many canadians report being fearful of taking LRT past 9pm, but it doesn’t match up with our reality, what is our reality?

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canadians feels canada is unsafe, but in reality we are very safe
crime rate is very low

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what are the differences between street crime and corporate crime?

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street crime -> seen / not reported a lot
ex. people breaking into homes to go steal, people using drugs

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corporate crime -> not seen / reported a lot
ex. big pharmaceutical companies lied about addictiveness of many drugs (oxycontin helped with pain, but did not tell doctors that it was addictive, but none of these companies were sued / are in jail)

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what is the difference between property crime and violent crime?

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violent crime -> seen / reported a lot
ex. we watch movies and tv shows about violent crimes, we like to read books about true crime related events. by putting violent crime in newspapers, we are interested, we buy, gets other companies interested in putting their stuff in the newspaper, make profit

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property crime -> not reported a lot
ex. stealing from homes, vandalism of properties

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what’s the difference between crime committed by stranger and crime committed by people you know?

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violent crime committed by strangers -> less often
ex. person at the LRT station is pushed onto the tracks by a stranger

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crimes committed by those known to victim -> more often
ex. sexual assault from a family member

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what four things can we say are partly owing to the impact of crime?

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  1. dramatization of crime
    - language: psycho, drug addicts, murderer
    - focus on atypical cases
    - brief and horrific headlines: ontario teen convicted of animal cruelty after barbecuing dog
  2. incompleteness of reporting (does not provide us with the whole picture)
    - media often fails to highlight that indigenous and racialized canadians are at a much higher risk
    - public is made unaware of how courts work, and reasons for sentences (may become less sympathetic to offender, believe system unjust, sentencing is too lenient)
  3. the echo-chamber effect (social media)
    - if we consume a lot of social media, they repeat the same story over and over again with the same view
    - if every time we look at social media, they continue talking about it, it makes it seem bigger then it is
  4. canadians preference for drama
    - buy crime books, consume crime movies
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what has the media done to violence?

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desensitize it!

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studies that look into the impact of violent video games on people found?

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people who play violent video games for a long period of time over years is more likely to be desensitized to violence

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what is the physiological sensations of crime desensitization?

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lower heart rates and blood pressure when watching a violent film

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what did monynihan find out about “the normalization of deviance”

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  • an american politician
  • why is there so much violence in the inner cities?
  • violence that occurs in inner city is increasing because in the inner city, violence has become normalized / expected (still not a social norm!)
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what was monynihan’s solution to the normalization of deviance / broken windows theory

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  • make sure all areas are populated, well lit, etc to ensure that crime is minimized
  • if it looks like nobody is watching, deviance is ‘encouraged’
  • do not expect people in that area to have security cameras
  • no people living there
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what is an edmonton example of the normalization of deviance?

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“edmonton’s first murder of the year”
- example of normalized deviance
- “first” implies that there are going to be more

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the media creates moral panic, what is that?

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an exaggerated and sensationalized concern over a particular phenomenon

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what were the salem witch trials (salem massachusetts’s)

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  • came to create a community of puritans (exclude others)
  • accusations that there were some women who were witches practicing witchcraft
  • many of these women were imprisoned, tortured, given the death trial by the community
  • similar behavior to epilepsy
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what are some characterizations of moral panic? (examples in relation to witch trials)

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  • heighten concern: possible epilepsy
  • hostility towards the offending group: distrust of women in general
  • certain level of consensus that there is a real threat: consensus women were bad
  • disproportionality: women and their potential to become vessels of the devil; low level anxiety rising as more women become witches
  • volatility: instability; witchcraft and devilish behavior could destabilize the entire community
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who in the community controls the media?

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leaders!

22
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who created about folk devil and moral panic?

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folk devil (scape goateed): those who possess characteristics that make them a suitable screen upon which society can project sentiments of guilt and ambivalence

  • few men in the community who wanted to be in power
  • anxiety in the community
  • women became scape goats; had anxiety over if god was real, etc
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what was watney in 1987 claim was a “folk devil”

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  • gay / homosexual men became the scape goats for the moral panic of both HIV and AIDS
  • made to think they must be a ‘bad person’ if they were homosexual
  • ambiguity: i am a good person, but according to societies standards, i am bad
  • gay men had the ‘badness’ projected onto them
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what was cohen’s mods and rockers?

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  • was in britian / england looking at mods and rockers
  • mods: moderate, mopeds, casual (preppy) attire,
  • rockers: think rock and roll; tough, loud, biker
  • both mods and rockers come from working class
  • huge moral panic around these two groups of young men
  • the media was entirely responsible for the moral panic developed around the mods and rockers
  • despite these two groups were different, they were not violent
  • cohen did his study on easter weekend, and believed that since these groups were bored, there might have been some vandalism, push and shove among the groups, but no major violence
  • media showed up on easter weekend and started to take pictures that framed them / suggested that these groups were ‘out of control’
  • suggested that the media created these people as threats when they were not
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what are the folk devil characteristics (in relation to mods and rockers)?

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  • increased concern: youth of post war britain out of control
  • manufactured hostility toward offending group: manufactured ‘gang’ image; use of heavy words like ‘drugs’, ‘mayhem’, ‘violent’, ‘dangerous’
  • increased consensus over the threat: all newspapers framed the story the same; all using same terminology
  • disproportionality: exaggeration tactics
  • volatility: gang fighting image; threat that marginalized youth posed; things ‘could’ get out of control very easily
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what effect did the kerner commission in 1968 (mass media) have on riots?

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  • a number of riots took place in cities across the US (los angeles, newark, detroit)
  • government at the time was very concerned
  • commissioned a group to study these riots, and inform them why there are riots occurring?
  • not to do with communism or african-american youth
  • caused by general racism in the US
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what was the first find of the kerner comissions report?

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MEDIA FAILED TO ACCURATELY REFLECT SCALE + CHARACTER OF THE RIOTS

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what were some of the exaggerations of the inability to reflect the scale and character of the riots?

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  • injuries
    -number of people involved
  • how they framed the issue (headlines, ‘race issue’)
  • stacking (would talk about other places’ violence to make it seem bigger than what it is)
  • staging (asking people to hold rocks and make it look like they were throwing them for the paper the next day)
  • quoted lesser government officials
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what was the second find of the kerner commissions report?

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MEDIA FAILED TO ADEQUATELY REPORT ON THE UNDERLYING PROBLEMS OF RACE RELATIONS

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what would the media constantly report on in the kerner report?

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the white mans world

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the media focused on the issue of race rather than injustice in what ways?

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  • ignored the ills of the ghetto, difficulties of life there, experiences of racism
  • because reporters arrive on the scene post-riot, they tended to emphasize response and police narration of events rather than those involved in the riot
  • would not include the voices of marginalized groups, only white men
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how did the media leave the impression that this was a race riot?

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  • police agents overwhelmingly white
  • those who experienced property damage were overwhelmingly white
  • white bystanders
  • focused the camera only on the ‘bad’ actions of marginalized community, and not showing when they would try and help the police, etc
  • only shown african-american males acting aggressively
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what was the third finding of the kerner commission report?

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MEDIA POST-RIOT REVIEWS LACKING

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how can we prevent a similar case from happening again?

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if the real causes of the riots would have been established, things could actually be fixed
- anti-racism programs
- get more jobs for marginalized groups
- better homes
- implement income programs for these groups

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how were officers and lead officials saying to prevent the kerner commission from happening again?

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  • arm officers with more guns, bigger guns, more officers
  • legislation to control rioting behavior
  • underlying causes not analyzed
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kerner research interviewed many african-americans for their report on the riots and reported?

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  • white bias in media, police bias, and media bias
  • failure to report flase arrests, how many residents helped the police
  • failure to ‘give voice’ to the community affected
  • journalists were all white and told story from a ‘white man perspective’
  • some reported that they looted and did things because media was there:
  • news helicopters incited violence (wanted a show)
  • some encouraged by journalists
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what are some critical approaches to the media?

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conflict, symbolic interactionist, marxist

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what was allen ginsbergs thoughts on the media?

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“whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture”

  • if you own the media, you wouldn’t let someone report something bad about you
  • media will impact our attitudes
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what was graeme gibson’s thoughts on the media?

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“canadians are being denied their culture”

  • we are so joined together with american culture and society, that canada has started to lose its culture
  • if we are watching american tv shows, listening to their music, reading their books, we are not embracing our own culture
40
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what are two critical approaches to the study of the media?

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framing and power

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what does the media frame?

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  1. individuals - case study
  2. health issues - smoking, vaping (do we frame it as health, failure of government to protect people from this)
  3. social issues
  4. social groups
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what are the three types of framing? (C)

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conflict frame - mods and rockers
human interest frame - inflation, cost of food, lived experiences, how inflation effects single parents
economic consequences frame: want to pull out of canada pension plan and move to alberta pension plan; how will this impact us?

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what are the implications of social group framing?

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  1. where a social group is not represented
    - can come to internalize that (guess i do not matter, irrelevant)
  2. where there is a social issues associated with a specific social group
    - demonstration of poverty injustice -> race riot
  3. where media presents a singular image
    - singular narrative (violent, gangs, dangerous)
  4. framing impacts social policy
    - got to get the diagnosis right in order to properly attack / treat the problem
    - more law / order
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what is the marxist view of power in media ownership?

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  • power that bourgeoisie had over proletariat
  • ownership is the means of production and gives them power
  • ownership influences content
  • ownership is increasingly concentrated; corporate empires control message
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what are the three trends in media ownership?

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convergence - individual companies own multiple forms of media (rogers media owns blue jays, cell phones, radio)

conglomeration - companies merge or buy out others, creating larger companies (sobeys bought safeway)

concentration - small number of companies control most media products (do not want a monopoly, but still only a few large companies hold the power; rogers, bell, telus)

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what is the positivist, objectivist administrative approach to deviance?

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  • what types of messages will result in certain outcomes in individuals
  • focus on cause and effect relationships; the effects of media messages on individuals
  • sometimes focused on determining what is needed to change people’s behavior (what is the best condom promotion campaign that actually gets people to practice safe sex; cigarettes have horrible images, introducing harmful effects of smoking in school, how did they influence society?)
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what are some books that are deviantized?

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marian engel’s bear: sexual attraction to a bear; beastiality

handmade’s tale (criticism of christian right, environmental policies)

to kill a mockingbird (criticism of race): censored and criticized

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what is the deviance dance in relation to the media?

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  • media is a tool / instrument for deviant acts - cybercrimes (child pornography)
  • medial is a tool to exert social control - catching digital pirates
  • media is site for claims-making and counter-claims-making (environmentalists vs oil companies; pro-life vs pro-choice)

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