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Global Mass media and the black community

Global Mass Media and the Black Community : A Reaction

Biagi Kern-Foxworth highlighted the social impact of the mass media and its role in promoting a culture that cultivates and perpetuates the psychological enslavement of ethnic minorities especially African Americans . They painstakingly demonstrated and illustrated in detail the different ways , formats and channels both consciously and unconsciously the discrimination and inequality that persists in mass media through stereotype portrayals , stigma , offensive labeling or terminologies used in writing and speech , lack of recognition of celebrating important events among ethnic minorities , news stories , and

even photographs among many others . In one instance , the labeling of Asian Americans as the "model minority " is an emergence of a new stereotype . Moreover , while attacks against whites have been condemned as a form of subversiveness and lawlessness , the sobriety and tolerance of racial discrimination against ethnic minorities is a matter of social acceptance African-Americans have been portrayed in mass media since time immemorial to be different socially and economically and thus separating them from white people (Healey and O 'Brien ) The homogeneity or uniformity of characters , attitudes of African Americans in mass media is not a manifestation of the uniqueness more so the diversity of this race but rather reflects the stereotyped and relative perspective of white people on them . Considering the ubiquity of mass media , the distorted information or miseducation that mass media complements the political socialization , social alienation and confounded consciousness of African Americans

This phenomenon can be rooted to the lack or meager input of ethnic minorities to the processes of mass media production from data collection and analysis i .e . news source reporting , production and packaging of information / knowledge i .e . depiction of dangerous black male or promiscuous black female and its distribution either in text audio or video , or digital formats through mass media and consumer products i .e . decision making in terms of judging or defining what reports are news worthy . As a result , the mass media that shapes popular culture is not really a depiction of reality but an unconscious yet strategic consensus of producers , who are predominantly white , of their understanding of ethnic minorities that do not capture the authentic experience of this race . In effect , mass media packages the image of African Americans as comical , super athletes , gangsters or worse a tautological menace to civilization . This trend precipitates in the global scale through electronic technology in which ideas are exchanged beyond time and geographic boundaries i .e . Internet , which is even harder to monitor or censor

In the field of mass media , Biagi Kern-Foxworth posts the challenges for African Americans and other groups or entities that are victims of prejudice i .e . racial ethnicities , females , homosexuals , Muslims , among others to be more involved in the production and distribution of mass media in to provide a more genuine depiction of their experience and ideas to emancipate them from the confinement and prejudice that mass media has pressed upon them . In particular , they should be able to exert greater...

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