Ethnicity

Question 1

Under representation

Answer 1

Surveys of tv indicates that black people are under represented and when they are they ranged of roles is limited and rarely shown as ordinary people who happen to be black.

Question 2

Islamaphobia

Answer 2

Since 2001 there has been a growth of islamophobia with Muslims stereotypes as supporting terrorism.

Question 3

GUMG

Answer 3

Have shown how news and current affairs programmes are essentially nationalistics developing countries are presented as problems with disasters wars and famines

Question 4

What would Marxists say?…

Answer 4

Nationalistics representations reinforces a capital system of white western culture

Question 5

Tokenism

Answer 5

Until recent years blacks have been portrayed as servants figures of fun or slaves this has been replaced by tokenism where members of the ethnic minority’s are included to show the media product isn’t racist

Question 6

Van Dijk

Answer 6

Studied inner city riots of the 1980’s he used content analysis and argued that British media constantly focused on racial explanation of the of the riots when lots of the people involved were white young males

Question 7

Hall

Answer 7

Said that there are 3 basic representations of blacks I the media’ entertainer, native and slave. Ethnicity is views though the white eye and interpreted though the grammar of race. Ethnic minorities are presented as inferior and subordinate whites as dominate and superior.

Question 8

Abercrombie

Answer 8

Argues that there are positive changes in soaps where ethnic minorities are treated in a less stereotypical way and as ordinary people rather than exotic and dangerous

Question 9

Scope for optimism

Answer 9

There has been greater visibility of ethnic minorities in addition there had been a growth in digital radio stations catering for ethnic minorities.

Question 10

What functionalist say?

Answer 10

Argue that the media presentation of ethnic minorities reflect their position in society

Question 11

Pluralist say?

Answer 11

Argue that the poor representation of some minority’s reflects their current social standing

Question 12

Marxist say?

Answer 12

The media uses racism to promote the interest of the powerful, eg by blaming unemployment can be passed to ethnic minorities groups rather than the real cause which is capitalism.