Racism and Journalism: News Content Flashcards
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Types of investigating racism in news
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- Senders
- Messages
- Receivers
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Senders
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Investigating racism in news production
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Messages
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Investigating racism in news content
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Recievers
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Investigating racism from the perspective of media audiences
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Representation
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- Representation means using language to say something meaningful about, or to re-present, the world meaningfully, to other people” - (Hall 1997, p.15).
- Meaning is not fixed but constructed.
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Stereotypes & the news
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- ## Standardised ‘mental pictures’ which symbolically reinforce certain normative assumptions about people, groups or institutions (or, indeed, entire countries) through over-simplification.