Representation in Media Flashcards
What does DAST stand for?
Draw A Scientists Test
When did DAST begin?
1957
Mead and Mertraux said that student essays mostly described
male scientists
DAST focussed on what in the 1980’s?
Drawings
Chambers, 1983 reported that how many out of 4000 student drew female scientists?
28
How many out of 1600 drew persons of colour?
20
Cognitive structures stored in memory that organize gender-related knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and preferences are…
Gender Schemas
Peer Review is the concept of
taking new research and getting feedback from other experts in the field
How long has peer review existed?
over 300 years
Where did peer review begin?
In the Royal Society in London
3 types of peer review
- Single Blind Review
- Double Blind Review
- Open Review
Type of peer review when the names of the reviewers are hidden from the author
single blind review
Type of peer review when the reviewer and the author are anonymous
double blind review
Type of peer review when the reviewer and author are known to eachother
open review
3 fallacies of peer review
- Doesn’t mean the work is right
- It isn’t infallible
- Some judgment: is allowed on the part of the authors and editors
“Both boys and girls cited television programs and films as the primary source of information for their drawings of scientists” suggests
That media literacy programs need to recognize and include the impacts of cultural images of gender
Production of postmodern culture is informed by
the consumption of products, ideas and knowledge
Post-modernity flips the narrative of gender in that
Women are not longer just consumers and men as producers, but women as consumers of male identity which is also based on consumption
Term: the shared beliefs or models of gender that a majority of society accepts as appropriate masculinity or femininity
Gender Ideal
Term: the variety of ways in which we reveal through our verbal and nonverbal demeanor that we fit in with masculine and feminine ideas
Gender Display
Are gender ideals socially constructed or performative?
socially constructed
Are gender displays socially constructed or performative?
Performative
The Tough Guise
a performance in which violent masculinity is the norm
The Tough Guide represents a backlash to
feminism, gay rights, racial and ethnic equality
Men and body image concerns of building muscle, eliminating fat, hair loss and penis size are all part of what complex?
The Adonis Complex
Where does the Adonis Complex come from?
Media: Visual representations serve as agents of masculine gender socialization
