How homosexuality being represented in the TVB drama within the recent five years. Introduction “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background…People must learn to hate” - Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela. Even you are black or homosexual, no one is needed to be discriminated or unaccepted in our society. Human beings are born equal and should be shared the same human rights, but where does this misunderstanding come from? People may learn this kind of knowledge through the interaction of people or mass media. With the advancement of the technical development, television becomes one of the indispensable products in our life and the TV series is a main product of televisions. Not only does it entertain us every day, but it also changes our mind subconsciously. TV series is a good channel to spread ideas over a city. Hong Kong media gradually implanted the idea of heterosexism in our mind which is usually in a negative way, and trying to represent stereotypical images of homosexual to the general public. How did the TVB series influence us within the recent 5 years? In the following of the report, literature reviews will be included and we are going to analyze the research based on the data that provided by The House News (主場新聞)and the Nu Tong Xue She (女同學社). Literature Review According to an American cultural forum, mass media is ‘the way in which members of a society are shaped, changed, directed, and influenced by their most pervasive forms of communication. It has to do with the ways in which the lives of people are reflected by the content of those communication forms.’ (Wrigley 244) It is one of the powerful social institutions in the socialization of gender (as well... ... middle of paper ... ... diversities (pp. 127-144). Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage Niall,R., Smith, C., Werndly, A., (2013). Studying Sexualities. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. Richardson, N., Smith, C., and Werndly, A. (2013) “Representations”. In Studying Sexualities: Theories, Representation, Cultures ,pp.57,61-63. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Streitmatter, R., (2004). Sex Sells!. United States: Westview Press. Sanderson, T., (1995). Mediawatch. London: Cassell. 「TVB最恐同及最同志友善劇集選舉」結果及分析. The House News. Retrieved from: http://thehousenews.com/lgbtq/tvb%E6%9C%80%E6%81%90%E5%90%8C%E5%8F%8A%E6%9C%80%E5%90%8C%E5%BF%97%E5%8F%8B%E5%96%84%E5%8A%87%E9%9B%86%E9%81%B8%E8%88%89%E7%B5%90%E6%9E%9C%E5%8F%8A%E5%88%86%E6%9E%90/ TVB最恐同劇集候選名. The House News. Retrieved from: http://thehousenews.com/lgbtq/tvb%E6%9C%80%E6%81%90%E5%90%8C%E5%8A%87%E9%9B%86%E5%80%99%E9%81%B8%E5%90%8D%E5%96%AE/
In "Where the girls are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media," Susan Douglas analyses the effects of mass media on women of the nineteen fifties, and more importantly on the teenage girls of the baby boom era. Douglas explains why women have been torn in conflicting directions and are still struggling today to identify themselves and their roles. Douglas recounts and dissects the ambiguous messages imprinted on the feminine psyche via the media. Douglas maintains that feminism is a direct result of the realization that mass media is a deliberate and calculated aggression against women. While the media seemingly begins to acknowledge the power of women, it purposely sets out to redefine women and the qualities by which they should define themselves. The contradictory messages received by women leave women not only in a love/hate relationship with the media, but also in a love/hate relationship with themselves.
Kidd expands on society’s sexual perspectives in mass media and illuminates the stress pushed towards the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender population. He outlines sexuality as one of many influences on the ways we interpret the culture we consume. He supposes that popular culture has five major social roles: generating basic social norms, producing social boundaries, producing rituals that generate social solidarity, generating modernization, and generating social progress. He pays particular attention to Emilie Durkeim and connects his sociological
The media play an indispensable role in modern life, and are considered amongst the most powerful and inaccurate sources of social information, education and entertainment. Our mass media is an electronic (TV, film, video, videogames, internet) visually dominated media with print (newspaper, magazine)...
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The media is a large part of our everyday lives; everywhere we go we can find a source of media. It influences our thoughts, feelings and behaviours every day as it is a huge influence in today’s society. Society heavily relies on the media to show them what is in the norm and what is going on in the world. The media also serves as another way to display the normative of the society. Sexuality is a big part in the media and what is appropriate sexuality. The media negatively affects the people who do not fit society’s ideal normative. This includes people with a sexuality that is not the normative of heterosexuality. In the media, these people of other sexualities are excluded and made to feel they do not fit into society. My pyramid shows how society classifies people by their sexuality in the media. This involves highlighting the normative sexuality and excluded any other sexuality from the mainstream media.
The media influences many aspects of American society. Media affects sexuality, gender roles, and family structure. The images of gender projected through the media correlates with gender norms held in society. The media demonstrates a misogynistic view towards women. Women, statistically, interact with media more than men and are exposed to the images the media promotes. Media distorts how women should look, their role in society, and sexuality. Despite the negative images presented in the media, these beliefs can change.
It is almost impossible to go one whole day without encountering so form of media. As a human race we are constantly surrounded by media whether it is TV, radio, or newspapers it is everywhere we look. Being constantly surrounded by media, impacts how people think and behave because it sets an example for its viewers. A big effect of media we are seeing is how people are viewing gender roles. Media shapes gender roles by showing what each gender does in a “normal” life and a “normal” household; we see this explained in Deborah Tannen’s “Why can’t He Hear What I’m Saying”, “After the Fact” by James Davidson and Mark Lytle, also in Katha Pollitt’s “Why Don’t Boys Play with Dolls.
The media, through its many outlets, has a lasting effect on the values and social structure evident in modern day society. Television, in particular, has the ability to influence the social structure of society with its subjective content. As Dwight E. Brooks and Lisa P. Hébert write in their article, “GENDER, RACE, AND MEDIA REPRESENTATION”, the basis of our accepted social identities is heavily controlled by the media we consume. One of the social identities that is heavily influenced is gender: Brooks and Hébert conclude, “While sex differences are rooted in biology, how we come to understand and perform gender is based on culture” (Brooks, Hébert 297). With gender being shaped so profusely by our culture, it is important to be aware of how social identities, such as gender, are being constructed in the media.
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According to D Gauntlett (2008), Media and communications are a central element of modern life, whilst gender and sexuality remain at the core of how we think about our identities. In modern societies, people spend more hours for watching television, look...
Socialization of people has been occurring through family, public education and peer groups. However in recent years, the mass-media has become the biggest contributor to the socialization process, especially in the ‘gender’ sector. The mass-media culture, as influential as it has become, plays the most significant role in the reproduction process of gender role stereotypes and patriarchal values. It is true that a family model of nowadays is based rather on equality than on patriarchal values and women have more rights and possibilities on the labor market. However, mass-media still reflect, maintain, or even ‘create’ gender stereotypes in order to promote themselves.
Gender and sexuality might be fathomed through social science. Social science is "the investigation of human culture and of unique connections in and to public opinion" (free lexicon, 2009). The investigation of social science manages diverse parts of public opinion, for example, governmental issues, trading and lending, and the social parts of pop culture. Sexual orientation character is nearly interlinked with social science as it is focused around a personality of a single person in the general public. Sexuality is "the state of being described and recognized by sex" (free word reference, 2009). There are distinctive sex personalities, for example, male, female, gay, lesbian, transgender, and cross-sexual that exists all far and wide. There is bias in sexual orientation personalities and strength of a male paying little respect to which sexuality they fall under. The guys are better over the females and gays better over the lesbians, on the other hand it diverse relying upon the spot and circumstances. This paper will take a gander at the sex parts and generalizations, social arrangement, and homosexuality from a current and a conventional public opinion point of view. The three separate territories will be contrasted by the two separate social orders with see the amount changes has happened and whether anything has truly changed. When all is said in done a customary public opinion is more traditionalist where as an up to date pop culture is on a very basic level liberal. This is to say that a customary pop culture records certain parts relying upon the sexual orientation and there are generalizations that are associated with the sexes. One must comply with the particular case that is predominant and decide. Then again, an up t...
How mass media is using both Ideology and Popular Culture to develop societal expectations and social identities. This essay will look at how Ideology, Hegemony, and Popular Cultural Theory shape common values and expectations of society and media’s influence and compare and contrast differing approaches to understanding the relationship between media and society. The discussion will be contextualized through the use of gender roles and expectations, and how these theories develop and affect the female social identity.
The mass media has played a key role in shaping people’s lives. The modern society’s use of mass media including TV, radio, newspaper, as well as print media has largely influenced people’s ideas regarding themselves and the society at large. This is evident from their behavior towards themselves and their community as well as their treatment of the environment. While some experts believe that the media is to blame for most of the negative behavioral traits among the active members of society, the majority agree that the media makes people understand and develop a positive sense of association with their society within which they live, making it easy for them to identify and get their role in it.
Mass media, including TV, radio, newspapers have a great influence on people and especially on the younger generation. It plays an important role in shaping the opinions and position of the younger generation. In the present, the younger generations are influenced by mass media, including TV, radio, and newspapers. They think this is the model for them because in daily life it is necessary for everyone, therefore, it is not unusual that it has a great influence on the people and especially on them. It plays an important role in shaping the opinions and position of the younger generation. The younger imitate the mass media and it has an impact on the younger on they way they dress, speak or behave.