Ethnicity And the Media

Question 1

What is Stuart halls study (ethnicity and media )

Answer 1

Young black mugger

Question 2

What three concepts does hall use to show how blacks are portrayed in media (ethnicity and media )

Answer 2

The slave
The native
The entertainer

Question 3

What study shows black in more restraints and mug shots than white (ethnicity and media )

Answer 3

R.entman

Question 4

What does m.e jones argue (ethnicity and media )

Answer 4

Ethnics play aliens to rep the otherness of ethnic minorities

Question 5

What is support for media images changing (ethnicity and media )

Answer 5

Appreciation of black culture has crown

Bend it like beckham popular

Question 6

Where does Abercrombie suggest there has been changes (ethnicity and media )

Answer 6

Soaps

Question 7

What does j Downing suggest about (ethnicity and media )

Answer 7

Cosby show ordinary family but highly un rep of blacks

Reid said black women highly critical of Cosby show

Question 8

What does manual castells suggest about more acces (ethnicity and media )

Answer 8

There is still oppression and discrimination

Question 9

What is there a new moral panic on (ethnicity and media )

Answer 9

Islamaphobia

Question 10

What does the 2005 bbc survey suggest (ethnicity and media )

Answer 10

Ethnic minorities in media 
Limited roles 
Cultural irrelevance 
Invisibility 
Tokenism 
Realism 
Ghettoisation 
Media personelle

Question 11

What do functionalist a argue (ethnicity and media )

Answer 11

Media portrayals of minorities reflect position in society

Asian successful buisnessman

Question 12

What do pluralists argue (ethnicity and media )

Answer 12

Also agree poor reps reflect minorities social standing

Question 13

What do Marxist suggest (ethnicity and media )

Answer 13

Oppression of minorities continuing in media due to structural causes of oppression 
Not changing eg big bro jade goody 
Media uses racism to promote intersts of the powerful 
Moral panics about immigrants decide the working class and produce glade conciousness

Question 14

What doe neo Marxists argue (ethnicity and media )

Answer 14

News and current affairs are nationalistic and show developing countries in famine and poverty
Such portrayals reinforce capitalist society and blacks used to be slaves but now tokens

Question 15

What do Hartman and husband suggest (ethnicity and media )

Answer 15

Content analysis of newspapers
Children from two areas
30^ of headlines with race were conflic
Media doesn’t have an impact but can influence
Set the agenda for discussion
Gatekeeping role some people have more access
Traditional British racist especially to black
Relates to roots in colonial past
Media use cultural symbols