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Media representations of gender, sexuality and disability

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Aimee Cook
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Question 1

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What is the definition of symbolic annihilation?
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  • Complete destruction of self
  • The way that women are represented by the media
  • Death

Question 2

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What did Tunstall argue??
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  • The presentation of women in media is biased because it presents women as housewives and mothers
  • Women are only sexually objectified
  • Media presents women as tall 'mannequin' like figures

Question 3

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What did the 'Just the Women' report find?
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  • Few media studies about women's abilities
  • Negative things were said about women
  • Women's issues were often covered in a very narrow and stereotyped way

Question 4

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What is the 'Metrosexual Male'?
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  • Men who take care of their appearance in consumption of toiletries and fashion products
  • Men who love themselves too much
  • Men who are portrayed as fundamentally caring and generous

Question 5

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Which one ISN'T a dominant representation of masculinity?
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  • Males are violent
  • Males earn the most money and run the household
  • Men are funny, confident and successful
  • Men are strong and rarely cry or show vulnerability

Question 6

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What did McNamara claim about the media's representation of men?
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  • It presents them to be violent and irresponsible
  • It disregards men's successes and acomplishments
  • It failed to show the reality of masculine life

Question 7

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What does Gauntlett claim about media aimed at women?
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  • Magazines create a stereotypical idea of how women should look, making them feel bad about themselves
  • Magazines for young women emphasise women must do their own thing and be themselves

Question 8

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Which sociologists argued that in new media and digital technology, women are MOST empowered?
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  • Gauntlett
  • Watson
  • Green and Singleton

Question 9

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Are postmodernists such as Gauntlett positive or negative about representations of gender and why?
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  • Negative - the differing representations between men and women and the stereotypical views take us back steps and creates inequality.
  • Positive - he focuses on the relationship between the mass media and identity and argues that in contrast with the past, there is no straightforward idea of the representation of femininity or masculinity

Question 10

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What else does Gauntlett argue?
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  • Mass media today actually challenges traditional definitions of gender and is a force for change
  • Women who do not fit the traditional views,

Question 11

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Pluralists claim the concept of symbolic annihilation underestimates women's ability to see through gender stereotyping and manipulation
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  • True
  • False

Question 12

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What do Batchelor et al's study on sexuality find?
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  • Contraception was only presented as a woman's responsibility
  • There was a lack of positive images of lesbian and gay teenagers and a failure to represent sexual diversity
  • Both!

Question 13

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Females were more interested in sex and bragged to their friends, whereas males were more interested in emotions
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  • True
  • False

Question 14

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Which sociologist found that being gay was not generally integrated into mainstream media representations?
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  • Dyer
  • Batchelor
  • Glaad

Question 15

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How is homosexuality represented in TV dramas and media?
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  • As the most important subject of the episode, as it needs more light brought into it
  • As embarrassment or target for bullying

Question 16

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Research by LGBT.co.uk and Stonewall concluding the LGBT community is undergoing better changes, drawing attention to representation of sexuality in media.
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  • True
  • False

Question 17

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How may lesbianism be represented in media?
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  • Negatively
  • Overly masculine
  • Oversexualised

Question 18

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How many hours of programming were focused on LGBT issues according to Stonewall (2011) ?
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  • 5 hours and 43 minutes out of 126 hours
  • 3 hours and 21 minutes out of 126 hours

Question 19

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Gay men are often presented as a bitchy or feminine figure in media
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  • True
  • False

Question 20

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What did a BBC survey (2010) discover about the portrayal of lesbians?
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  • Narrow representation, either represented as butch or 'lipstick lesbians'
  • Homophobia was emphasised towards them
  • They were often portrayed for the benefit of male viewers

Question 21

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What do the following TV shows have in common: Grey's Anatomy, Glee, Orange is the New Black and Ugly Betty
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  • Large proportion of gay characters
  • Media representations of transgender characters
  • Extreme Buddhism

Question 22

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How many tweets in 2015 highlighted the support for the LGBT community using the hashtag '#lovewins'?
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  • 3.9 million
  • 2.4 million
  • 10.3 million
  • 3.6 million

Question 23

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What are the two sociological views of disability in media?
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  • Physical/Mental impairments and the view that the disabled are disabled by society
  • They're represented as super-human, or weak

Question 24

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What did Colin Barnes and Tom Shakespeare suggest?
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  • Media represents the disabled as weak
  • Media represents the disabled as evil
  • Disabled are disabled by society

Question 25

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Which one isn't one of Barnes' recurring stereotypes of disabled people?
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  • Pitiable and pathetic
  • Curio
  • Evil
  • Sexually abnormal
  • Incapable of participating in anything 'normal'
  • Unintelligent
  • Super cripples

Question 26

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Who argued that telethons such as Children in need rely too heavily on cute children to raise money and don't truly represent the disabled
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  • Barnes
  • Roper
  • Findlay
  • Oliver
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