Media Representations and Stereotyping Flashcards
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What is Tokenism?
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The practice of only making a symbolic/surface level effort to represent a certain group, only giving the appearance of equality.
2
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What is the Media Gaze?
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The way the media view society, then represent this view in their media products.
3
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What is the Male Gaze?
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Depicting women from a heterosexual, often over sexualised view to appeal to a male audience.
4
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What is the Female Gaze?
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The ways in which women and girls look at things in the world e.g sexualised men, opposite of male gaze.
5
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What is Symbolic Annihilation?
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The absence/underrepresentation of certain groups of people in the media - race, gender, sexuality etc.
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What is Stereotyping/Labelling?
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Reducing a group to a single characteristic thereby generalising them.
