Media sociologists

Mulvey

Male gaze

Curran et al

The public has limited knowledge of public affairs

Bagdikian

Media is purely concentrated with the ‘lords of the global village’

Miliband

The media has become the opium of the people

Hall

There can never be hegemony because theyll always be people willing to challenge dominant ideology with alternative views

Gerbner

Cultivation theory - ideas cultivate from media consumption, symbolic annihilation

White et al

Lack of middle aged and older women

Stan cohen

Moral panics and folk devils

Althusser

Ideological state apparatus vs repressive state apparatus

Becker (churnalism)

Hierarchy of credibility

Herman and chomsky

Propaganda model

Davis

80% news stories are partially or wholy constructed from second hand news (2008)

White et al

Lacking representation of middle aged and elderly women

Bernstein

Restricted and elaborated code

Lawler

Class is represented as a result of lifestyle choices

Jones

Demonisation of working class

Murray

Underclass, welfare dependency

Sancho

Wheelchair is the main trope of disability

Cumberbatch and negrine

3 categories of stereotypes of disabled - criminal, subhuman, powerless

Barnes

10 stereotypes of disabled

• pitiable

• Violence

• Evil

• Ridicule

• Burden

• Non sexual

• Unable to participate in daily life

Shakespeare

Claims disability is a social construct

Strinati

Media shapes our consumer choices

Bauman

Society has become media saturated