How media representation of the social world compares

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Case Study: Please review the questions below and use them as a guide as you read and take notes on Croteau, Hoynes, & Childress, Chapter 7 Social Inequality and Media Representation. In addition to looking for specific information to answer these questions

After reading and taking notes on the chapter, please type your answers to the questions below and submit them by the deadline.

Question 1.Identify and briefly explain at least THREE key issues raised by the question of how media representation of the social world compares to the "real" world.

Question 2. List the five ways in which researchers assess the significance of media content. Which of these are you going to do in Application Assignment #3? (HINT: there is ONE right answer.)

Question 3. According to the chapter, what is race? What is ethnicity? Why does the chapter claim that "mainstream U.S media have taken ‘whites' to be the norm against which all other racial groups are measured" (Croteau, Hoynes, & Childress, 2022, p. 259)?

Question 4. What three issues emerge when considering how racial and ethnic differences are portrayed? Use an example from the chapter to show why these three issues matter.

Question 5. Describe ONE example from the chapter for each of the following:

a) History of inequalities and change in women's presence and roles in media

b) Changing roles for men in media

c) Class distribution and portrayals of characters, people, and topics in the media

d) History of inequalities and change in presence and portrayals of the LGBTQ community

Question 6. In a brief paragraph, consider the following: Should media strive to be "realistic" in their portrayal of diversity in the social world? Why or why not?

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