MEDIA SOCIOLOGISTS (DISABILITY, SEXUALITY, ETHNICITY)

Question 1

Who found that there are 3 stereotypes of disability in film? What are the stereotypes?

Answer 1

Cuberbatch and Negrine
1. Criminal
2. Subhuman
3. Powerless/pathetic

Question 2

Who found 10 stereotypes of disability in the media? Name 3 of these stereotypes

Answer 2

Barnes
1. Pitiable
2. Object of curiousity
3. Object of violence
4. Evil
5. Super-cripple (overcoming)
6. Laughable
7. Their own owrst enemy
8. Burden
9. Non-Sexual
10. Unable to participate in daily life

Question 3

Who argued disabled feel more positive about their self-image?

Answer 3

Olney and Kim

Question 4

Who argued that the depiction of disability is simplictic and is an ‘lazy shortcut’ for entertainment?

Answer 4

Tom Shakespeare

Question 5

Which organisation found that soaps and dramas portray disability sympathetically? (positive)

Answer 5

Time to change

Question 6

Who argued there’s an increase in articles that link disability to benefit scrounding?

Answer 6

Briant et al

Question 7

Who argued there’s a diversity in new identities in film? (Postmodernist)

Answer 7

Gauntlett

Question 8

Who found that 80% of representations of disabilty related to mobility, sensory issues or mental illnesses = oversimplifying?

Answer 8

Cumberbatch

Question 9

Who argued that the wheelchair is often used as an icon to represent disability?

Answer 9

Sanch

Question 10

Who argued that in manstream media lesbianism is invisible?

Answer 10

Batchelor

Question 11

Who argued the representations construct signifiers of gayness, although irl it’s impossible to say if someone is gay?

Answer 11

Dyer

Question 12

Who argued there are 3 media signifiers of gayness? What are these?

Answer 12

Craig
1. Camp - exaggerated, colourful figures of fun
2. Macho - exaggerated masculinity
3. Deviant - evil or acting devious

Question 13

Which organisation found that gay characters are portrayed in 5% of programmes and a lot of these portrayals are negative?

Answer 13

Stonewall

Question 14

Which organisations found that lesbianism is over-sexualised to please male viewers?

Answer 14

Stonewall and LGBT.co.uk

Question 15

who argued that the representatons of AIDS differed depending on the media?

Answer 15

Cricher

Question 16

What’s the case study to demonstrate the LGBT empowerment in the new media?

Answer 16

2020 BBC same-sex kiss

Question 17

Which social media analytics took found that there were twice as much social media posts dedicated to the death of white girl compared to Sabina Nessa?

Answer 17

Crowdtangle

Question 18

Who argued that media implies that white lives are more important than the other ones ?- institutional racism

Answer 18

Van Dijk

Question 19

Who criticised the imbalance between the coverage of deaths of Tom ap Rhys Pryce and Balbir Matharu?

Answer 19

Ian Blair (87% & 13%)

Question 20

Who argued that there’s a common stereotype that ethnic minorities are posing a threat to the majority white culture which leads to the construction of moral panics?

Answer 20

Van Dijk

Question 21

Who analysed British media and found that most articles focused othering muslims or covering terrorism?

Answer 21

Moore et al

Question 22

Who argued journalists depict hijab as a patriarchal form of control reducing muslim women to being victims?

Answer 22

Ameli

Question 23

Who argues the concept of citizen journalism and participatory culture? (ethnicity)

Answer 23

Jenkins

Question 24

Who argued that the construction of moral panics around ethnic minorities during 70’s muggings is a distraction from the failings of capitalism?

Answer 24

Hall

Question 25

Who argued that young black men are often associated with negative news values?

Answer 25

Cushion et al

Question 26

Who argued the reposting of race disturbances is called ‘riots’ to imply that it is criminal and negatively depict ethnic minorities?

Answer 26

Back

Question 27

Who argued the world is viewed through white, westernised perspective? - White eye, ethnocentrism

Answer 27

Hall