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Media Representation
This week I am going to examine the ethics of media and the
potential implications for society, I’ll be looking particularly at representation
in media and how media deals with representation of different sexualities, ethnicities,
cultures, nations and religions. Media texts and popular culture can be very
influential in the way that people understand other peoples cultures through
media they may not otherwise be familiar with.
Representation of gender, ages, sexualities, ethnicities,
cultures, nations, and religion. When the media start to create a world where
some of these don’t exist such as no big body people, that is creating a lie, therefore
representation is vital to make all people belong together, no race or religion
can define you as a person so you shouldn’t let the media portray you or your culture
or gender as one. Stereotypes that have been used repeatedly over the years that
causes a lack of diversity in representation which narrows society’s perception
of these things. The representation becomes naturalized, and we stop
questioning it. Only the audience can decide weather to reject it if they don’t
agree. The media does this to get more dominance and other endless reasons. You
should always think what purpose it serves the publisher and who does it
benefit, and how it might further the producer’s agenda, only then can we
combat stereotypes and create otherness in society.
The first step for representation to be represented right
and fair is to hire people from all different backgrounds and when creating
media to represent all people and not only yourself. To let people see
themselves validates what they look like and who they are who they love, or
what their experience is and how they feel. It is important to create content
that resonates with sharing all different stories from behind and in front of
the camera, because most content can be white ethnicity and straight people, while
if you see content with gay people, they are usually flamboyant and not
factually correct with the entire population.
Miss representation female leadership, Caroline Heldman talks about how when little boys and girls
are asked in school of who they want to be they get older, most are courageous
and say the president but when they get a little bit older most times the girls
who wanted to don’t anymore, she says that this is because of the lack of
female power positions and most time it is always masculine based in power. What
we see inspires us, so if we don’t see women in powerful leadership positions, we
must believe we cant have the chance, so we change our dreams to fit in with
society today and we must change this stereotype and elect more women to
powerful positions to create a change in society.
Culture can be affected both negatively and positively therefore
new media can impact our norms and traits in the same way. Culture can be affected
both negatively and positively, therefore new media can impact our norms and
traits the same way.
The more power women gain the stronger the backlash they
receive against them. They get criticized for appearance how they talk on news
channels giving their own perception on them while influencing the viewers of
the same perceptions while not thinking about the bigger picture and what change
there making. Women in power can be negative because society portray women as
more emotional than men, they perpetrate there emotional there for they are irrational
and can’t handle crisis and there for shouldn’t be a in a powerful leader position.
In my opinion representation should be represented by those
who have experience in the stereotype in question and not those who think
making some one look bad on media because of gender, race, body image it should
be about the change they are making in society and starting to include all stereotypes
to be what they what and to be free in what they do without being stereotyped
by the media.
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