MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS: ETHNICITY 6

Question 1

DIJK: did a

Answer 1

content anwyslis of thousands of news items across the world over several decades, found representiosn of black people could be categorised into 3 stereotypical types of news:CRIMINALS, THREAT, UNIMPORTANT

Question 2

CRIMINALS>

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black crime is most frequently covered in the news, demonstrated as a threat to law abiding white society, shown as criminalised being involved in gang and knife crime

Question 3

CRIMINALS> Wayne et al

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examined news coverage in 2007 of a range of national news programs and found 50% news stories concerning young black people delt with them committing crime

Question 4

CRIMINALS> cushion et al

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monitored a range of daily and Sunday newspapers, news, radio for 16 weeks in 2008-9 and found black young boys to be associated with negative values

Question 5

THREAT

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minorities are shown as a threat to white culture through immigration to take jobs and claim free benefits , in recent years, 3 groups constitute the most threat according to tv/newspapers, resulting in moral panic

Question 6

threat> immigrants

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threat in numbers, impact of supplying jobs and housing

Question 7

threat> refugees/asylum seekers ICAR STUDY

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abuse of the welfare state, car study found british media use negative lang to describe these and conducted research in London and found inacurate media images of asylum seekers made a contribution to harassment by local residents

Question 8

threat> muslims

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threat to british values, negative media rep, homogenised by journalist

Question 9

Moore et al (threat)

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analysed content of british media in 2000-8 found over 1/3 of stories focused on terrorism and 1/3 focused on differences in musilm and british community highlighting forced marrges - islam is backwards and dangerous, threat to british way of life through replacing british law with sharia law

Question 10

UNIMPORTANT- dijk argues

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unless their are white british people involved, events affecting ethnic minorities such as natural disasters have basic and limited coverage. face institiutonal bias as when in the media portrayed in sterotypcila low status role and music critised for drug use and gang violence . causing moral panic

Question 11

hall

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takes a determinist approach, argues media is responsible for creating/maintaining racist stereotypes to control how we think about rance> enables white people in power to assert dominance, media is used by bourgeois to creat a moral panic for em and outcast them

Question 12

a03: functionalist

Answer 12

argue media dense construct our view on groups in society but is a mirror that reflects our views of these groups> so as views change over time, so will coverage
in mroe recent times, companies are owned by ethnic minors to ensure positive rep