Media - Sociologists Flashcards
What did Curran and Seaton say? (new media)
Neophilliacs - those who embrace the new media
Cultural pessimists - those who are critical of the new media
What did Cornford and Robbins say? (new media)
New media is evolutionary, not revolutionary.
Eg: games consoles require TV, internet needs phone line
Only new thing is the speed
What did Ritzer say? (globalisation)
Mcdonaldisation - can visit countries without eating foreign food, mcdonalds everywhere
What did Flew say? (globalisation)
Internet has created a shared global culture
What did Keen say? (globalisaiton)
Twitter and Facebook too wrapped up in me culture to be used for social change
What did the GUMG say? (ownership and control)
Media reflects the ideas of ruling class
What did Ralph Milliband say? (ownership and control)
Mass media is the “new opium of the people”
What did Levene say? (ownership and control)
People now have greater choice so they can challenge meta-narratives (pushed by ruling class)
What did Cohen say? (news)
Moral panics - events get falsely reported due to the medias role in sensationalizing stories
common in red top tabloids
What did the GUMG say? (news)
Journalists side with the powerful groups. leave out content that doesn't suit the neoliberal world view. Journalists are white, middle class men
What did Van Dijk say? (representation)
Blacks seen as criminals
Cover negatives of immigration, not the positives
What did Stuart Hall say? (representation)
Media aims to make ethnic minorities out to be folk devils - 1970s the Black Mugger
What did Mulvey say? (representation)
Male Gaze - sexualises women for mens pleasure
What did Barnes say? (representation)
content analysis found that disabled are presented as pitiful and pathetic
What did Davis say? (representation)
Youth are blamed for problems in society
What did Batchelor say? (representation)
Heterosexuality is the dominant sexuaulity
Homosexuality presented as a problematic state
What did Lawler say? (representation)
Working class communities are stigmatised as “white trash”
What did Tuchman say? (representation)
Women experience symbolic annihilation
What did Dyer say? (representation)
“Being gay doesn’t show” - overexaggerated presentation in the media
What did Bandura do? (audience)
Experiment where children were shown a bobo doll being attacked, and then copied the behaviour
What did the GUMG say? (audience)
Agenda is set by the media, meaning audiences struggle to interpret media outside the ideological constraints
What did Keen say? (new media)
It is Chaotic and truth is subjective
What did McLuhan say? (new media)
Global Village - Everyone has access to information
What did Turkle say? (new media)
New media users are “along together” - interactions aren’t meaningful or fulfilling
