Ethnic Minority Disadvantage In The Media

Question 1

Alexander

Answer 1

Asian youths in east London were unfairly targeted by police and the media, myth of Asian gang created whereby the media reported violent clashes between black and Asian gangs, they were criminalised as a result of Islamophobia

Question 2

Van Dijk

Answer 2

Longitudinal Content analysis to study representations of ethnic groups in the UK and found that the media stereotype black people in 5 ways: criminal, abnormal, threat, unimportant and dependant. Eg. Presenting cultural practices as abnormal and using blanket terminology such as black culture