social class media representations Flashcards
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Nairn - monarchy
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reinforces sense of national identity and Head of State
little criticism until death of Diana
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neo-marx on upper class
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- celebrate hierarchy & wealth suggesting they are deserving of position
- e.g. Downton abbey romanticises upper class
- no attention for inequalities
- promotes dominant hegemony & seeks to legitimise social hierarchy as natural
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pluralists - upper class
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- representations of rich justified as promotes hard work (meritocracy)
- coverage of what audience wants (royal wedding)
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Reiner & Young - upper class
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- represents UK as meritocratic
- ideological myth
5
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Newman - upper class
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tabloids rarely critical of celebrities and if so focus on weight
6
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representation of middle class
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- overrepresented on TV
- newspaper and magazines aimed at m/c
- m/c are anxious about decline of moral standards
- m/c dominate positions of authority in media
7
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overlapping representations of working class
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- dumb & stupid baffoons
- source of trouble or conflict
- living in idealised w/c community
- white trash & scum
8
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Newman - w/c
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- when in tv = unflattering/pitying
- when in news = labelled as problem
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Curran & Seaton - w/c
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- papers assume w/c uninterested in politics
- e.g. Sun assumes readers want gossip
- distracts from inequalities
10
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neo-marxists - w/c
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spread view that w/c are trouble, protects powerful
11
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evaluation
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undermines new media and control of content through users e.g use of Facebook through London riots
12
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Newman - underclass
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negative & stereotypical
‘chavs’
13
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Shildrick & McDonald - underclass
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suggest poor are undeserving of public sympathy
14
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Cohen - underclass
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- reinforces idea that poor are poor due to own doing
- journalists are hopeless at realistically reporting plight of the poor
