The Role Of Stereotypes In The Media

Representation and Media Stereotypes
Different media have projected various issues about our lives in various ways. It is no doubt that the opinion and the views of the public can easily be swayed and manipulated by how the media presents it self. People’s opinion can be shaped by what their views are on a certain issue. Since there are many different kinds of media in the world and since different people prefer different media as their source of information, the choice of media and the way the issue of information security is presented in each media is very important in making decisions as well as shaping people’s idea and attitudes. For example, if the media constantly keeps condemning the people in Iraq and we keep seeing the same images,
According to Gorham, he discuss in his article that if a white women were to live on welfare, she would not have such a strong stereotype than a Hispanic women. Peffley, Shields, and Williams discuss that media stereotypes are created because the news makes the suspect seem guilty, even if he is not. The media changes the frame of the story, to make it to become more interesting, which can lead the audience to see how a type of group of race is shown, and would start to stereotype that every one that is associate with that group is the same. (Gorham 98) In media stereotype the difference is with stereotype is that, the media portrays that a group of people, are lazy, and live on welfare and is continuously repeated either in the news or in movies, which leads the audience to start to stereotype one another, and if your seeing some of the group of people in the movies and news in real life, that would lead you to believe that it is true. According to Domke, McCoy, and Torres, discuss that even stories about race-related issue such as immigration could prime racial perceptions of a relevant group. Domke and colleagues continue to discusses that the issues such as immigration, which are usually framed with a particular racial group in mind, might activate relevant racial
Because the media has that frame on Hispanic and blacks, leads the audience of the media to believe that it is true. According to Pettigrew’s theory, “ in group members seeing someone doing something bad will be more likely to attribute that behavior to internal causes if the person is from an out group” (Gorham 97) Pettigrew’s discusses that if your from a different group than some one else, example white and a Hispanic person, a white person may see a Hispanic person being extremely loud, and acting out in public, leading that person to look at them different, making them the outer group. There are people that do not support stereotypes, but because the media frames different racial groups, leads people to have a label on a racial group, according to Peffley, Hurwitz, and Sniderman found that racial stereotypes played an important roles in people’s opinions about welfare mother and criminals, but only when those welfare mothers and criminals were black. In addition, people’s opinions about welfare mother were closely related to believe that blacks do not have commitment to the work ethic, “ blacks welfare mothers do not want to work because they are inherently lazy” (Gorham 97) but there is no similarity relating to white mothers, and that is why people believe that these stereotype are true, because it is only discuss about black mothers. Stereotypes are a schema to