Media - Sociologists

Question 1

What did Curran and Seaton say? (new media)

Answer 1

Neophilliacs - those who embrace the new media

Cultural pessimists - those who are critical of the new media

Question 2

What did Cornford and Robbins say? (new media)

Answer 2

New media is evolutionary, not revolutionary.
Eg: games consoles require TV, internet needs phone line
Only new thing is the speed

Question 3

What did Ritzer say? (globalisation)

Answer 3

Mcdonaldisation - can visit countries without eating foreign food, mcdonalds everywhere

Question 4

What did Flew say? (globalisation)

Answer 4

Internet has created a shared global culture

Question 5

What did Keen say? (globalisaiton)

Answer 5

Twitter and Facebook too wrapped up in me culture to be used for social change

Question 6

What did the GUMG say? (ownership and control)

Answer 6

Media reflects the ideas of ruling class

Question 7

What did Ralph Milliband say? (ownership and control)

Answer 7

Mass media is the “new opium of the people”

Question 8

What did Levene say? (ownership and control)

Answer 8

People now have greater choice so they can challenge meta-narratives (pushed by ruling class)

Question 9

What did Cohen say? (news)

Answer 9

Moral panics - events get falsely reported due to the medias role in sensationalizing stories
common in red top tabloids

Question 10

What did the GUMG say? (news)

Answer 10

Journalists side with the powerful groups.
leave out content that doesn't suit the neoliberal world view.
Journalists are white, middle class men

Question 11

What did Van Dijk say? (representation)

Answer 11

Blacks seen as criminals

Cover negatives of immigration, not the positives

Question 12

What did Stuart Hall say? (representation)

Answer 12

Media aims to make ethnic minorities out to be folk devils - 1970s the Black Mugger

Question 13

What did Mulvey say? (representation)

Answer 13

Male Gaze - sexualises women for mens pleasure

Question 14

What did Barnes say? (representation)

Answer 14

content analysis found that disabled are presented as pitiful and pathetic

Question 15

What did Davis say? (representation)

Answer 15

Youth are blamed for problems in society

Question 16

What did Batchelor say? (representation)

Answer 16

Heterosexuality is the dominant sexuaulity

Homosexuality presented as a problematic state

Question 17

What did Lawler say? (representation)

Answer 17

Working class communities are stigmatised as “white trash”

Question 18

What did Tuchman say? (representation)

Answer 18

Women experience symbolic annihilation

Question 19

What did Dyer say? (representation)

Answer 19

“Being gay doesn’t show” - overexaggerated presentation in the media

Question 20

What did Bandura do? (audience)

Answer 20

Experiment where children were shown a bobo doll being attacked, and then copied the behaviour

Question 21

What did the GUMG say? (audience)

Answer 21

Agenda is set by the media, meaning audiences struggle to interpret media outside the ideological constraints

Question 22

What did Keen say? (new media)

Answer 22

It is Chaotic and truth is subjective

Question 23

What did McLuhan say? (new media)

Answer 23

Global Village - Everyone has access to information

Question 24

What did Turkle say? (new media)

Answer 24

New media users are “along together” - interactions aren’t meaningful or fulfilling

Question 25

What did Curran and Seaton say? (ownership and control)

Answer 25

A small number of conglomerates dominate the media industry

Question 26

What did Van Dijk say? (ownership and control)

Answer 26

Predominantly white

Question 27

What did Young say? (audience)

Answer 27

Sensitisation - People who view violence are shown the consequences and such are less likely to be violent

Question 28

What did Davies say? (selection and presentation)

Answer 28

Churnalism - Many newspapers reproduce press releases