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What TV shows depict women as busy housewives? (Tunstall)

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Loose Women

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What’s the example of music industry sexually objectifying women? (Bates)

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‘Blurring Lines’ - Thicke’s music video

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What are the 6 most popular stereotypes of masculinity, according to Children Now?

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  1. Joker - laughter
  2. Jock - powerful despite threat to health
  3. Strong, silent type - focuses on being in charge (e.g. James Bond)
  4. Big shot - economically powerful and socially successful
  5. Action hero - aggrssive and angre (e.g. Hulk)
  6. Buffoon - father figure with parenting issues
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Which magazines transmit metrosexual values? (Gauntlett)

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Men’s Health

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What was the ‘Lose the lads’ mags campaign’?

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Striking against magazines that sexually objectify women. This led to shops like Tesco to stop selling these magazines

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What’s the example of magazines supporting the retributive masculinity? (Rutherford)

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Nuts / Loaded

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What are Barnes’ 10 stereotypes of disability in the media?

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  1. Pitiable
  2. Object of curiousity
  3. Object of violence
  4. Evil
  5. Super-cripple
  6. Laughable
  7. Their own worst enemy
  8. Burden
  9. Non-sexual
  10. Uable to participate in daily life
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What’s the example of Barne’s disability stereotype that impared people are non-sexual?

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The Undatables - Channel 4

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What’s the example of disabled identities in film?

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Dory from Finding Nemo - amnesia

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What’s DDA? How many people are covered by it?

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Disability discrimination act
1/4 people

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What are the 3 stereotypes of sexuality according to Craig?

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  1. Camp - exxagerated, colourful figures of fun (e.g. Erik - Sex Education)
  2. Macho - exxagerated masculinity
  3. Deviant - evil or acting devious (e.g. Mickey Milkovich - Shameless)
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What is the pink economy?

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The spending power of LGBT community

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What’s the example of a headline that negatively depicts homosexuality in print media?

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‘Pretend 2 dads is new normal’

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What is tokenism?

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Symbolic effort

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What was the ratio of media coverage when Tom ap Rhys Pryce and Balbir Matharu died?

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87% and 13%

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According to Dijk, around which 3 caregories of ethnic minorities moral panics are constructed?

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  1. Immigrants
  2. Refugees and asylum seekers
  3. Muslms
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What category of people is often associated with negative news values, according to Cushion et al?

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young black men

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Whose image got cropped during 2011 London riots so he looked angry when actually he was at the funeral?

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Mark Duggan

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Whose death started the recent black lives matter movement? In what year?

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George Floyd - 2020

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What’s the example of TV show portraying high-class life and monarchy

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The Crown - Netflix

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What’s the name for the culture whereby one wants to stay aware of other’s lifestyles and praises lavishness?

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Keeping up with the Joneses

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What’s the example of show that portrayed w/c problems in dignified and realistic way?

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Shameless

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What’s the example of the upper-class politician who faced criticism? What for?

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Matt Hancock - breaking covid lockdown rules

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What’s the exmple of poverty infotainment show?

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Benefits Street

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What are the terms used to describe the underclass (3)

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Chavs, white trash, social scum

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According to Headliners? what are the 7 stereotypes of children used by the media?

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  1. Cute
  2. Little devils
  3. Brilliant - geniuses
  4. Brave little angels
  5. Accessories - North West
  6. Modern - corrupted by social media
  7. Kids as victims
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What’s the example of pro-social action that children are depicted to be engaged with?

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Telling the truth

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What is pester power?

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The concept of children pressurising their parents to buy them unnecessary products

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Whose killers haven’t been depicted positively in the media? (children)

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James Bulger

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What’s the case study of film sexualising children? (Demonstrating how media turns against non-conforming children)

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Cuties 2020 - Netflix, France

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What’s the name for elderly’s spending power?

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Grey pound

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What’s the example of an advertisement representing old people?

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John Lewis - Man on the Moon

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According to Age Concern, what are the 3 ways that elderly are stereotypically portrayed?

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  1. Grumpy
  2. Mentally challenged
  3. A burden
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GIve 2 examples of moral panics revolving around young age social groups? What decade were they in?

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  • 60’s - sexual morality
  • 70’s - hippies/punks
  • 80’s black young men, muggers
  • 90’s - teenage pregnancies
    00’s - hoodies
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According to Wayne, in what 2 ways (in relation to crime) youths are portrayed?

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  1. VIctims of crime
  2. Perpetrators of violent crime
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According to Kelly, what are the 3 common types of youths’ representations

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  1. Dangerous
  2. In need of protection
  3. Immature

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