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Representation and Stereotyping in the media

Representations of stereotyping is shown a lot in media texts such as articles, newspapers and adverts. For example, advertising tends to frequently mention men as big super-fans of sports, loving beer and playing video games all day. On the flipside is the representation of women in the media and also the hashtag '#BLM' two very controversial topics/debates in modern society and the popular media. On one hand, '#BLM' is a extremely popular movement in which is the demand for respect and equality for black people in America. The media also represents this in the UK during premier league football games where the players on the field will take a knee in respect of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement. Another example of stereotyping in the media would be the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 were 97+ people unfortunately died due to being crushed in result of the excessive amounts of people attending to watch the football game. Following this, the popular newspaper 'The Sun' were very quick to blame the scousers for the amount of tragedies that occured at the stadium. This led to a false representation throughout many years labelling scousers as murderers and thieves, these false stereotypes in the media have left a long lasting effect in the reputation of many people from Liverpool.










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Nick Saward
Nick Saward
Sep 28, 2022

You've fallen a little into that trap of discussing how groups are stereotyped by the media without providing any specific examples! The one exception is where you've discussed how The S*n (don't buy it) represented Liverpool in the wake of Hillsborough, but again you haven't mentioned how that stereotyped has continued within the media.


They are all important issues and unfortunately explorations into each of these ideas i.e. representation of gender, ethnicity etc often results in more examples of what people are fighting against. For example - you mention how the #BLM movement has found its way onto sports fields with players taking a knee - well sadly, this has led to more racism on social media that it doesn't…


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