Stuart hall representation

Cards (7)

  • He believes media often uses sterotypes
  • He states that stereotypes reduce people down to oversimplified cliches
  • sterotypes are often negative
  • Hall believes that stereotypes result from inequality of power
  • Hegemonic power- Dominant groups in society controlling those less powerful
  • People who have hegemonic power will often represent people who don't have it in a stereotypical way because they have very little experience from those groups
  • ethnic minorities represented in negative ways in newspaper because alot of newspaper producers come from white upper-class backgrounds