for Media 10

1. Introduction to Media
Where Race, Gender & History Meet

2. WHAT IS MEDIA?
• Tools we use to communicate
– get information
– stay informed
– be entertained
• Controls the flow of information as
– Interpreter &
– Watchdog

3. MEDIA TOOLS

4. LEGACY MEDIA
(Books, 1455) (Newspapers, 1690)
(Magazines, 1741)
(Billboard, 1790)
(Recorded sound, 1877) (Movies, 1888)

5. LEGACY BROADCAST
(Radio, 1895)
Television (Developed, 1927;
widely available, 1948)

6. NEW MEDIA
Internet/Social Media (1969)
Videogames (1958)

7. MASS MEDIA =
• One to Many

8. IMPACT?
• our knowledge
• our behavior
• our attitudes
• our emotions
• our political views

9. MEDIA REFLECTS

10. MEDIA INFLUENCES

11. GETS IN YOUR HEAD

12. INFORMS …

13. & MIS-INFORMS

14. IN MEDIA 10 …

17. Slavery

20. Anti-semitic
Anti-Irish

22. STEREOTYPES

23. STEREOTYPES

24. WHAT’S A
STEREOTYPE?
• A widely held but oversimplified image
or idea of a particular type of person,
place or thing.
• Often based in “some” truth
• But puts everyone in the same box –
whether it fits or not

25. Does One Size Fit All?

27. Men don’t
need to be
spanked?

28. Focusing
on the real
issues???

29. Words
for
Women

30. MORE RECENT
CHINK =
- a narrow
opening &/or
- an ethnic slur
(bad word)
usually
referring to a
person of
Chinese
ethnicity

31. Asians
aren’t
Athletic,
are they??

32. A kid, age 11, (Texas-native
Sebastian De La Cruz) sings
the national anthem (2013)
at an NBA game
“We” react