The Politics Of Othering And Misrepresentations

Question 1

Prasun Sonwalker on Banal Journalism, 2015

Answer 1

The fact that most journalism and newspapers are seen as everyday, ordinary, and conventional helps to reinforce the dominance of cultural norms - the stories that are not typically included are outside this sphere of dominance and so this reinforces us and them binaries by a creating an ordinary, collective ‘us’

Question 2

Olga Bailey and Ramaswami Harindranath on Racialised Othering, 2005

Answer 2

As Hall argues, media representations create meaning rather than just relaying the information surrounding certain events - thus, the modern concept of globalisation has led to tighter immigration control, perpetuated by the Othering of asylum seekers through media representations

Question 3

John E. Richardson’s study of British Muslims in the broadsheet press, 2010, from 7 different newspapers

Answer 3

In a study of the representations of Muslims in British newspapers, the topic of ‘villainy’ was featured in 51.3% of articles which noted Islam as being influential to the story