evaluate how ethnic identities are represented in the media

Question 1

paragraph 1

Answer 1

more diversity of ethnic minority media professional

• diverse in terms of postivie representations
• BBC asian network
  range of home-grown channels
• news papers and radios

positive representations of ethnic minority culture in recent times

Postmodernism - pick and mix identities and media in constant state of change

Question 2

evaluation 1

Answer 2

• 2015 research by the Reuters Institute for the study of journalism - only 0.4% of British journalists are muslim and 0.2% are black

interactionism - separatism - ‘the other’ - white eye

Question 3

paragraph 2

Answer 3

ethnic minority groups represented as criminals

cushion et al - range of daily newspapers, TV news and radio news for 4 months between 2008-2009 - black young men and boys are regularly associated with negative news values. 7 in 10 stories about young black men were related to some form of crime

marxists - argue that there is little to attempt to discuss the possible structural factors that might contribute to motivations for crime, such as poverty or marginalisation

Question 4

evaluation 2

Answer 4

• many sociologists are highlighting that the criminal rioters narrative is decreasing - especially in light of BLM protests in 2020 - movement was largely regarded as important by media outlets
• David Starkey - criticised for racist comments and police investigated - shows societal change

Question 5

paragraph 3

Answer 5

rhodesmustfall - raise awareness to remove cecil rhodes a slave trader from outside of oriel college, university of oxford

social media - new media

BLM protests, tiktok and black-out dat - 2nd June 2020
social solidarity - functionalism

Question 6

evaluation 3

Answer 6

• mainstream news media have used wording in describing the movement that may make readers view suspicion - anarchists - agitators
• tokenism - performative - avoiding cancel culture in order to protect reputation