Reinforcement Of Stereotypes Research Articles

Research On the Impact of Pop Music In 2000s Films: Shaping Youth Culture Through Soundtracks

This research delves into the profound impact of pop music on youth-oriented films of the 2000s, examining aspects such as cultural representation, emotional connection, and financial gains. The introduction underscores the critical importance of this topic in understanding how media shapes youth culture and influences societal perceptions. By focusing on iconic films like "High School Musical" and "Mean Girls," the study illustrates how pop music is used to enrich narratives and captivate audiences, making it an integral part of the storytelling process. The analysis reveals several key issues, including cultural homogenization, the reinforcement of stereotypes, and the prioritization of commercialization over artistic integrity. These challenges highlight the need for a more thoughtful integration of music in films to avoid superficial portrayals and promote authenticity. To address these issues, the research recommends expanding the range of musical themes to reflect diverse cultures and experiences, breaking away from stereotypes to foster more nuanced character portrayals, and balancing commercial objectives with creative expression in future film productions. The conclusion emphasizes the significance of this research in guiding media practices toward greater cultural diversity in youth-oriented entertainment. By adopting these recommendations, filmmakers can create richer, more diverse content that resonates emotionally with audiences while also contributing positively to the cultural landscape.

The Influence of Media on Public Perception of Crime

The primary experience of crime is rare. The only information furnishing source for the civic society is media. The media has the power to reach to the masses and shape public opinion and therefore this great power demands great responsibility. As a powerful disseminator of information, it holds a considerable sway over how individuals perceive crime and safety in their communities. Furthermore, media delves into various mechanisms which influence public perception, the propagation of misinformation, amplification of fear and the reinforcement of stereotypes

Tracing the Bulgarian Connection: Revisiting Ideology-Inspired News Coverage of Pope Assassination Attempt

ABSTRACT The coverage of the trial in the assassination attempt against Pope John Paull II in the 1981 divided journalists in the United States. The dominant coverage relied on limited number of sources who speculated on circumstantial evidence to implicate Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. Through the prism of the agenda-setting and resource dependency theory, this paper revisits key moments of the coverage of the so-called Bulgarian Connection in American media and adds a fresh perspective to the existing analysis. To provide a deeper understanding of the processes that shaped the coverage, the paper also includes oral history interviews with journalists covering the trial against the shooter, and a former CIA analyst who participated in pertinent intelligence discussions about the possibility of Bulgarian involvement in the assassination attempt. This paper finds that limited journalistic resources on international affairs led to unbalanced reporting influenced by ideology with neo-conservative individuals controlling the agenda-setting function of newsrooms. This paper also finds that the polarized context of the Cold War created a thriving environment for the almost universal reinforcement of stereotypes and politically-sanctioned narratives and left little room for dissenting opinion. Finally, this author suggests recommendations to avoid ideologically-driven international reporting to dominate.

The Impact of the Application of Algorithms in Social Media Marketing on Society

As algorithms have evolved, they have been heavily used in social media, and more brands are using them as an effective tool for social media marketing. The use of algorithms in social media marketing has become increasingly prevalent as brands seek to maximize their impact and reach on these platforms. However, there has been a growing concern over the impact of algorithms on society, including issues such as filter bubbles, echo chambers, and algorithmic bias. This research is important as it seeks to provide insights into the social impact of algorithmic applications in social media marketing. The findings could be useful to both brands and consumers, enabling them to make more informed decisions about their use of algorithms in social media marketing. This research aims to investigate the social impact of the use of algorithms in social media marketing. The study collected 135 samples through a qualitative research method using a questionnaire for social media users. The collected data was analyzed to derive both positive and negative impacts of algorithmic applications in social media marketing on society. The application of algorithms on social media can affect society due to efficient marketing and enhanced access to information. However, it can also have negative impacts on society, for example, potential for manipulation, loss of privacy, reinforcement of stereotypes and biases, and amplification of harmful content. And the paper builds on previous research on the subject of algorithms and social media by exploring their potential impact in more depth. By doing so, the study intends to enable both brands and consumers to effectively avoid its negative effects.

Real change or more of the same? Analysing Australian media's portrayal of intellectual disability during the NDIS rollout.

Through the filtering of information, the creation, and reinforcement of stereotypes, media moulds attitudes and set agendas on critical social issues including public policy and disability. This study explored Australian media representations of the care of people with intellectual disability during a crucial period in disability policy change: the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) rollout (2013-2018). Search criteria identified 168 news stories, examined via content analysis and news framing. Four major issues were identified: Roles and responsibilities of government; housing; mistreatment of persons with intellectual disability, and responsibility of care for families. Stories tended to be presented negatively, however, regional and local/community metropolitan stories were more balanced or positive compared with major metropolitan stories. Despite significant disability policy change, media presentations continue to reinforce stereotypes of people with intellectual disability and position the government as one continuing to fall short in critical areas of funding, safety, and support.

A Study on Investigating the Societal Impact of Real-Life Narratives in Indian Web Series

The growing Indian web series industry has not only broadened its horizons but has also explored new and unexplored areas of storytelling. This research examines the effects of real-life stories presented in Indian web series, focusing on their development, social impact, and the subtleties of their representation. This research investigates the correlation between fact and fiction in online series such as "Scoop," "Jamtara," "Rangbaaz," "Delhi Crime," and "House of Secrets." It provides valuable insights into the intricate realm of web-based storytelling. These stories include all facets of Indian storytelling, spanning from principles of journalism to illicit activities. They effectively blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. The research emphasizes the emotional impact, genuineness, and significance that true stories elicit in audiences, while also acknowledging concerns about the reinforcement of stereotypes and harmful actions. However, these stories still greatly influence the cultural environment, bringing to a period of consuming knowledge that is marked by genuineness and truthfulness.

Multicultural Curriculum in India

By applying the concept of a multicultural curriculum and approaches to it as advocated by James Banks, this paper critically analyses the presence and absence of a multicultural curriculum in Indian text books after NCF 2005 through the case study of the “Vasant Part II” (Hindi text book for 7th Std). A multicultural curriculum is the need of the hour in contemporary India to create a learning environment for people from diverse cultures and backgrounds so that they can access education free from all insecure feelings and have fair chances of learning. NCF 2005 calls for an epistemological shift in the curriculum that accommodates multiple ways of imagining the Indian nation. The analysis of the case study clearly presents a different picture away from this call. The majority of the units propagate mainstream Hindu culture instead of taking along multicultural perspectives. The non-transformative and uncritical representations of women, minorities, and differently abled people often lead to a reinforcement of stereotypes and misconceptions. In this gloomy picture a couple of units send rays of hope for a multicultural curriculum in the future, so that our future generation may be a generation with transformed attitude and convictions to form a better citizenry.

El tratamiento periodístico de los movimientos sociales en Iberoamérica

El artículo analiza el tratamiento periodístico de los movimientos sociales en Iberoamérica en los últimos diez años (2011-2021). A fin de analizar la difusión del activismo social en la prensa, se lleva a cabo una revisión sistemática de la literatura. Así, se analizó el conjunto de fuentes, identificando en los medios informativos tradicionales un tratamiento relacionado al poder político y al refuerzo de estereotipos, y en el periodismo digital un enfoque que ahonda en las causas y consecuencias de los movimientos sociales, dotando a estos de espacios de discusión y de prácticas colectivas.

Riding East—Western Myths, Nostalgia, and the Crossing of Generic Boundaries in Hidalgo (2004)

<i>Riding East</i>—Western Myths, Nostalgia, and the Crossing of Generic Boundaries in <i>Hidalgo</i> (2004)

Community organisation-researcher partnerships: what concerns arise for community organisations and how can they be mitigated?

Universities and research funders’ growing emphasis on community partnerships, engagement and outreach has seen a rise in collaborations between university researchers and staff of community organisations (COs) on research projects....

Surveillance, stigma &amp; sociotechnical design for HIV

Online dating and hookup platforms have fundamentally changed people’s day-to-day practices of sex and love — but exist in tension with older social and medicolegal norms. This is particularly the case for people with HIV, who are frequently stigmatized, surveilled, ostracized, and incarcerated because of their status. Efforts to make intimate platforms “work” for HIV frequently focus on user-to-user interactions and disclosure of one’s HIV status but elide both the structural forces at work in regulating sex and the involvement of the state in queer lives. In an effort to foreground these forces and this involvement, we analyze the approaches that intimate platforms have taken in designing for HIV disclosure through a content analysis of 50 current platforms. We argue that the implicit reinforcement of stereotypes about who HIV is or is not a concern for, along with the failure to consider state practices when designing for data disclosure, opens up serious risks for HIV-positive and otherwise marginalized people. While we have no panacea for the tension between disclosure and risk, we point to bottom-up, communal, and queer approaches to design as a way of potentially making that tension easier to safely navigate.

Framing immigration: a content analysis of newspapers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States

ABSTRACT This study examines the media framings of immigration in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Using a content analysis of over 1700 newspaper articles published in 2014 in different cases, my findings show that, regardless of context, the media use a small number of frames to stereotype, generalize and reduce immigration to a singular dimension. My analysis also suggests that the media do not always only have a binary representation of bad or good immigrants. Instead, the media's othering of immigrants is a complex process, suggesting ambivalence despite superficial affirmation. Although my findings also demonstrate that some national differences exist, common patterns can be found across contexts that share similar historical, cultural, social, economic, and political dimensions of immigration. As one of the first cross-regional comparisons of media framings, this research reflects the power dynamics between the elites and immigrants and offers implications for how the media's reinforcement of stereotypes and outsider status of immigrants could potentially shape public opinion and policies regarding immigration.

Developing Global Citizenship in Tertiary Performing Arts StudentsThrough Short-term Mobility Programs

This article examines how short-term overseas mobility (study abroad) programs in the performing arts can foster global citizenship among undergraduate university students. It assesses outcomes from two programs led by different Australian universities: the first in 2015, involving six music and drama students for three weeks; and the second in 2016, involving five music students for ten days. Both cohorts travelled with the author to Cambodia, collaborating with local artists and non-government arts organisations on a range of musical and cultural activities. Drawing primarily on student focus group transcripts and student reflective journal entries, here I examine the extent to which these mobility programs may have contributed to fostering a sense of global citizenship in students. Analysis centres on three broad themes: students’ development of global awareness and understanding, including intercultural awareness and empathy; their growing awareness and understanding of themselves and their societies; and the cultivation of their sense of social responsibility, including an aspiration to contribute to local and global society in a meaningful way. I also raise some challenges and risks of mobility programs with respect to the goal of building global citizenship in students, such as reinforcement of stereotypes and power differentials.

The construction of allegedly abused children’s narratives in Scottish criminal courts

ABSTRACTThis study investigated lawyers’ use of social narratives surrounding child sexual abuse when questioning 66 5- to 17-year-old alleged victims in Scottish criminal courts using a mixed-methods approach. Thematic analysis found that the use of beliefs and stereotypes varied depending upon the lawyers’ role (defense/prosecution), children’s age, and the alleged victim-defendant relationship. These findings were investigated further using narrative analysis, which showed that, with increasing age and decreasing familiarity with defendants, narratives increasingly focused on the characteristics and actions of the victims rather than the defendants. Older children contributed more to narratives than younger children, but their contributions were only incorporated into the prosecutors’ narratives. Defense lawyers adopted more victim-blaming tactics as the narratives developed. Findings suggest that the criminal justice system, practitioners, and researchers must do more to recognize and guard against the reinforcement of stereotypes that may influence public rhetoric and jury decision-making.

From Paternalistic to Patronizing: How Cultural Competence Can Be Ethically Problematic.

Cultural competence literature and training aim to equip healthcare workers to better understand patients of different cultures and value systems, in an effort to ensure effective and equitable healthcare services for diverse patient populations. However, without nuanced awareness and contextual knowledge, the values embedded within cultural competence practice may cripple rather than empower the very people they mean to respect. A narrow cultural view can lessen cultural understanding rather than grow it. In its first part, this paper argues that a hasty, unrestrained, and uneducated willingness to accept something as a cultural good, despite being well intentioned, can still cause significant harms-particularly when based on false, misinformed, and stereotypical conceptions-including the minimization of issues, the reinforcement of stereotypes, and the impediment of cultural change. The second part of this paper examines medical autonomy within the context of Saudi Arabian women. It pushes back on the common perception that Saudi women, by virtue of culture and religion, view dependency on and deference to male relatives as a cultural good. Through a historical examination and a presentation of the current women's movement in Saudi Arabia, it is argued that the continued assumption that personal agency is a value external to Saudi women is false, misguided, and ethically problematic. Lastly, this paper considers some approaches to help providers navigate the narrow grounds between paternalism and patronization when caring for patients.

Challenges to Sustaining University-Community Partnerships in War-Torn, Northern Uganda: Investigating Resistance, Negative Stereotyping, and Gender Bias in Agricultural Students’ Attachments

Gulu Town (Gulu) served as a site of refuge for many during northern Uganda’s armed conflict that spanned from 1986 to 2006. Since then, Gulu transitioned into a region with sprawling slums and deteriorating social conditions. To combat these trends, the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment (FAE) at Gulu University adopted a development approach emphasizing community transformation. The FAE conceptualizes community transformation as the building of Gulu community members’ capacity to transition from a subsistence agrarian lifestyle to one more economically sustainable. One mechanism the FAE uses to enact their commitment to community transformation are university-community partnerships established to facilitate agricultural student attachments, or internships. Because of the myriad ways university-community partnerships are manifested, we examined the challenges to sustaining such partnerships in this post-conflict region. When interpreting findings through Foucauldian (1972) discourse theory, three themes emerged: (a) resistance, (b) reinforcement of stereotypes, and (c) gender bias. Moving forward, we recommend training opportunities be developed to promote more collaborative, contextually grounded strategies to overcome the challenges and enhance the partnerships such that all participants benefit.

Combining Skype with Blogging: A chance to stop reinforcement of stereotypes in intercultural exchanges?

&lt;span&gt;This papers looks into whether combining Skype, blogging and class discussions reinforces or refutes stereotypes. The hypothesis was that some students do not have an adequate chance to reflect on their skype experience and course content. To see if students have made improvements in reducing stereotypes, the Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Culture will be used to evaluate their blog entries. In addition a survey will be given at end of the semester to analyse the student's perspective of their own learning.&lt;/span&gt;

Using listening journals to raise awareness of Global Englishes in ELT

With the increasing use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), it is no longer appropriate to associate English purely with �native-speaking� nations, but with a global community of users. This article reports on the use of listening journals in ELT to expose students to global Englishes (GE), a field that reflects the current global use of English. These journals served as a pedagogical task, and as a research instrument that involved the analysis of 108 journals consisting of 1,092 reflections on GE exposure. The results highlighted students� current use of English, the impetus behind the selection of material for the listening journal, and their reflections on this exposure. The study not only shows a benefit in using listening journals to raise awareness of GE but also highlights limitations, including the reinforcement of stereotypes and a tendency to reflect on attitudes towards different varieties of English rather than how successful ELF communication is achieved.

Discursos do exótico nas revistas femininas: uma análise dos ‘outros’ do Pós-Feminismo

In this paper we apply critical discourse analysis to a selection of articles about exoticism published in the magazines 'Cosmo' and 'Máxima' between March 2008 and March 2009, aiming to understand the discursive strategies used in the construction of a feminine normative identity through naturalisation and reinforcement of stereotypes related to alterity. Starting with a linguistic analysis of the features, characteristics and qualities associated with the exoticism, and which are used in the construction of an image of femininity appealing to consumption, we discuss how the discourse of gender articulated in the magazines is related to the post-feminist paradigm. In particular, we question how the emphasis on the personal welfare as a direct result of individual, rather than a collective responsibility contributes to disseminate a neo-liberal ideology based on individualism and the celebration of freedom of choice, both deeply associated with the capitalist consumption culture.

Chinese Movies and History Education: The Case of Zhang Yimou’s ‘To Live’

AbstractUsing film to promote historical understanding is not a new phenomenon. However, such use presents difficulty when dealing with non‐Western history, as sufficient care must be given to not engender historical misunderstanding and the reinforcement of stereotypes. Much of the research on teaching with film centers on Hollywood productions that typically embody a Western perspective. The problem is compounded by the fact that textbooks used in American classrooms offer only a limited presentation of such critical events in modern Chinese history as the Chinese Civil War, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. Teachers can therefore greatly benefit from the use of additional background materials to teach this content more effectively. Using existing research on film in the classroom, this paper explores briefly the histories represented in some popular Chinese film, with a specific focus on Zhang Yimou’s To Live. It discusses how use of this film in particular can be used to assist students in constructing historical knowledge and understanding about China.