Paper 1 Media Representations Flashcards
VAN DIJK - TRADITIONAL & NEGATIVE
Content analysis into media representations of ethnic groups in the UK over a 10 year period. Black people are stereotyped in 5 ways: criminal, abnormal, dependent, unimportant and a threat.
Example - Top Boy for Criminal - ‘swearing’, ‘violence’, ‘drugs’ and ‘dangerous’.
MALIK - TRADITIONAL & NEGATIVE
research that the use of the media and also the representations of minority ethnic groups was poor in contemporary society. she examined Channel 4s research that found that the majority of White British people found that broadcasters were reflecting multicultural Britain to a satisfactory level, yet other groups felt that contrasting this was done “very poorly”. Malik claimed that broadcasters are guilty of the following: tokenism and stereotyping.
Tokenism - is the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups especially by recruiting people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of racial or gender equality within a workplace or educational context.
Example - Love Island - they are not inclusive and include the bare minimum of ethnic minorities.
HALL - TRADITIONAL & NEGATIVE
overt racism and ethnic minority ‘folk devils’ - black people are seen through the “white eye”.
‘the white eye’ states that traditionally films portrayed black people in one of the 3 ways : natives, entertainers or slaves.
HUSBAND AND HARTMAN - TRADITIONAL & NEGATIVE
Media operates within a culture that sees Black Afro-Caribbean people are “foreigners” and as “inferior”. Media emphasises racial conflict and problems and presents negative images and stereotypes of ethnic minorities.
BARKER - TRADITIONAL & NEGATIVE
barker studied ethnic minority groups in the soap opera Eastenders, and noted that it had been heavily criticised for stereotyping of ethnic minority groups - For example Asian and black characters being given the roles of doctors and shopkeepers. he said that characters were portrayed as having limited, stereotypical character traits as opposed to being multifaceted, complex people. Barker stated that Eastenders’ producers still have a long way to go to overcome the latent racism of the programme as key characters are still often white British.
East Enders
