Mass Media: Media representations of disability

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Who found 6 stereotypes of disabled people?
Barnes
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What is meant by the stereotype "as pitiable and pathetic"?
grown in popularity due to TV appeals such as CIN - regular feature of TV drama and news is to over focus on disabled children and the possibility of miracle cures
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What is meant by the stereotype "as an object of violence"?
when disabled people featured in TV drama - 3 times more likely than able bodied characters to be killed off - reinforces idea of the disabled as victims
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What is meant by the stereotype "as sinister and evil"?
disabled people are often portrayed as criminals/monsters
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What is meant by the stereotype "as super cripples"?
disabled are often portrayed as having special powers
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What is meant by the stereotype "as an object of ridicule"?
disabled people are often laughed at in comedies
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What is meant by the stereotype "as sexually abnormal"?
assumed by media representations that the disabled do not have sexual feelings/that they are sexually degenerate
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Who identified 3 broad categories of disability stereotype in cinemas (the criminal, the sub human, the powerless/pathetic character)??
Cumberbatch and Negrime
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Who stated that both able bodied and disabled viewers object to and are critical of the way people are portrayed in the media?
Ross and Sancho
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Who found that TV and press reporting of people suffering mental disabilities often focuses on violent incidents despite the fact that only a tiny minority of people with mental health impairments are potentially violent?
Philo
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What did the GUMG conclude?
high proportion of able bodied sample felt fear and anxiety when in the proximity of people with mental health problems - media coverage convinced them that mental illness is associated with violent behaviour
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What did Roper suggest about the effects of telethons?
can create problems for the disabled - telethons over rely on cute children, not representative of disabled people in UK - charities rather than government bodies provide funs, people rarely question why people disadvantaged in first place
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