Neo-marxism

Define neo-Marxism

New/updated version of Marxism.

What do neo-marxists believe about the media

Play a key role in strengthening ruling-class hegemony/dominance.

Sutton Trust

Found that journalists and broadcasters tend to be white, middle class and make and more than 50% attended private schools. Due to their backgrounds and personal values, they unconsciously produce content that promotes ruling class norms, values and ideologies. Neo-Marxists would be hugely critical if the content we as the audience us exposed to.

Gilroy

Certain social groups 'threaten' the position of white, middle-class males and therefore are marginalised through media portrayals and stereotyped in a negative way. Argues black crime was a form of political resistance against s repressive, racist state and denies there was greater criminality amongst black peoples than white people and that the media created a folk devil surrounding black people which generated deviancy amplification.

Hall

Discusses 3 stereotypes of black people within the media as natives, entertainers and slaves. States they're presented as a 'threat' which reflects an unconscious racism- black and Asian people portrayed as the 'source' of social problems and labelled as trouble makers in news coverage. These stereotypes are evident in traditional Hollywood films and in contemporary media texts.

Glasgow Media Group

Carried out research into media presentations of different social groups, including the working class. Similar to Hall's research, it was found that these social groups were again presented in a stereotyped and negative way. The Glasgow Media Group found recurring themes in media representations including the following:

1. The conflation of forced + economic immigration

2. Threatening numbers

3. A burden on welfare and the job market

4. Criminality, threat, deportation and human rights

5. Need for immigration 'control'

6. The benefits of immigration limited in media coverage

7. Problems facing asylum seekers limited in media coverage

8. The role of the west in refugee movements and economic forces in migration