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Reviewing the images and meanings of the mass-mediated world, Gabriel Weimann examines the symbolic environment, where reality and fiction are almost inseparable. Through discussion of mass-mediated images of people, cultures, war, love, sex, death, community, and identity, he demonstrates that there is often a large gap between reality and the reconstruction of "realities" as communicated by the mass media.
Portrayal of Groups
Portrayal of Groups
What do we know about Arabs? Aging people? African Americans? AIDS patients? Police work? Among the major images that mass media create for us are images of various groups of people. For some of these groups, it is only through TV and other media that we meet, learn about, and virtually “encounter.” Not only are the mass media our introduction to these people, but the media may be our only source of information about them.
In this chapter, we will examine the mass-mediated images of a variety of groups of people and look at the consequences of such portrayals. It will be impossible to review the media images of so many categories of subpopulations and social groups. Instead, this chapter will ...
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