Representation Of Ethnicity Flashcards
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What did Van dijk argue?
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Media accused of being institutionally racist due to reporting less incidents of murders against ethnic groups
2
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What did Hall argue?
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Multicultural society welcomes the presence of a range of difference ethnic groups in society
3
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What did Barker argue?
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- found 5 common stereotypes of ethnic groups in the media
- criminals, threat, unimportant, dependant, abnormal
4
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What did Nandi argue?
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Found that often folk devils of ‘black muggers’ are portrayed in media texts
5
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What did Ligali argue?
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- Found that portrayals of Muslims in particular were incredibly negative
- seen as intolerant, misogynistic, violent, cruel, strange and different
6
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What did Malik argue?
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- found that use of media and also representations of minority ethnic groups was poor in Contemporary society
- claimed that broadcasters are guilty of tokenism and stereotyping
7
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Define tokenism
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- practice of making only a symbolic effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups, especially by recruiting a small number of people from underrepresented groups in order to give appearance of racial equality
8
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What is a media example of tokenism?
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- ‘love islands Samira mighty has criticised the show for failing its token black contestants’
9
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Define stereotypes
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Widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or dies of a particular type of person or thing based on assumptions and prejudices of certain groups of people
10
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What is a media example of stereotyping?
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- good luck Charlie
- Ivy is representation of token black friend and sidekick of white main character
- ivy seen as undesirable
11
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What did Barker find regarding Eastenders?
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- heavily criticised for stereotyping of ethnic minority groups
- Asian and black characters given role of doctors and shopkeepers
- stated that Eastenders producers still have a long way to go to overcome latent racism of the programme as key characters are still often white British
