Van Dijk's Main Study (1991)

• Van Dijk conducted his study on media representations of ethnic minority & majority groups in 1991
• Van Dijk (1991) completed a content analysis of news reports in the UK and the Netherlands over a 10 year period
• Van Dijk (1991) found that there was a number of stereotyped that are used to portray black people in the media
• Van Dijk's (1991) ideas have been summarised under 5 categories by Moore et al. (2005)
• Moore et al. summarised Van Dijk's ideas into 5 categories in 2005
• Moore et al (2005) summarised Van Dijk's ideas into 5 Categories:

  • Criminals
  • Abnormal
  • Threat
  • Dependent
  • Unimportant