The Media - Representations of ethnicity

Question 1

Van Dijk - ethnic minorities

Answer 1

categorised into 3 stereotypical negative types of news:
1 - criminals
2 - threat
3 - unimportant

Question 2

Cushion et al - violent gang crime representations

Answer 2

nearly 70% of stories related to black young men were crime and especially violent gang crime

Question 3

Back - inner city race disturbances

Answer 3

• media labels them as riots
• implies irrationality and images of raging mobs
• justifies harsh clampdown from police

Question 4

Moor et al

Answer 4

• Over 1/3 stories focused on terrorism between Muslim and white British society
• stories of Muslim victims of crime were rare

Question 5

Van Dijk - minority groups as unimportant

Answer 5

black victims not given as much attention as white victims
made white lives seem more important than minority lives