Welcome to our website. Our purpose for creating this website is to show the influence of media on people and the stereotypes in media. As we know there are several types of stereotyping that take place in media; gender stereotypes, ethnic stereotypes, gay and lesbian stereotypes...
Media both reflects and reproduces stereotypes. In this website, we have tried to show you the role of media in our perception by articles, videos and cartoons.
Articles:
--In the article 'Media and Its Portrayal of Black Americans' the black stereotyping in America is explained. The results of a research of Entman and Rojecki are given in the article.
--In the article 'Gay and Lesbian Stereotypes in the Media' the portrayal of gay and lesbian is considered. According to Ammonia Pine gays and lesbians do take place on Tv, however their actual relationships are never depicted.
--In the article 'Changing images: a long road' Bernadette van Dijck says "Reporting on the changing roles of men and women in society often implicitly assumes that women are principally responsible for child-rearing and home-making while men are responsible for income and management. "Bernadette van Dijck argues the gender portrayal in media.
--In the article 'Globalisation of the media and its implications for women’s expression' Meena M Shivdas tells about the feminist analysises and the impact of globalisation of the media in women’s lives.
--In the article 'Don’t abandon safeguards in the name of freedom of expression!' Ann Mainville-Neeson tells about the Code ( part of the CRTC’s gender portrayal policy most currently set out in 1992 Policy on Gender Portrayal) . Ann Mainville-Neeson says that according to the Code women and men should be portrayed in a wide range of roles in media.It specifically bans the negative portrayals of both genders.
-- In the article 'Looking beyond the ‘body count’ in the Caribbean' Marjan de Bruin gives information about Women’s Media Watch (WMW) which is a movement against violence in media and how it leads to violence against women in Caribbean.
--In the article 'Media vs. society in Lebanon: Schizophrenia in an age of globalisation' Dima Dabbous-Sensenig briefly tells about the conference on Gender and Communication Policy held in Beirut in November 1999.
--In the article 'Gender and Media: Indian Perspective' Dr Reinuka Dagar tells about the women portrayal in South Asia. In the article there are some facts that show the presence of women in private organization. The presence of women in media is increasing.
-The articles which are not explained have the same purpose with the ones above.
Videos:
Crash:
This is the music video of the movie 'Crash'. Crash is a movie which represents the stereotypes in Los Angeles.
We are the world:
This song was meant to suggest the peace in world Although the song says 'we are the world', it was sung in English by very little participation from the rest of the world. So there is an irony in the song.(For lyrics-http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/michaeljackson/weretheworldusaforafrica.html)
Dear Mr. President-Pink:
This is a song that is written to critisize Bush for the war in Iraq.(For lyrics-http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pink/dearmrpresident.html)
Tupac-Changes:
This is a song about the black stereotyping and it is sung by an black hip-hop artist,Tupac. The theme of the song is similar to the 'Crash'.It includes the conflict between black and white people.(For lyrics-http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/2pac/changes.html)
-As we see media both reflects and reproduces messages. Those songs are the media messages which are critisizing other media messages.
Pictures-Cartoons:
The pictures and the cartoons in the website show the stereotypes and the effects of media on people as we have explained below the pictures.
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