Media Stereotypes

Download or read book Media Stereotypes written by Andrew C. Billings and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think about the "pictures in our heads" that media create and perpetuate, what images are we truly referencing? Issues of media stereotypes and representation (both past and present) are crucial to advancing media literacy. Media Stereotypes: From Ageism to Xenophobia becomes one-stop shopping for synthesizing what we know within the composite of stereotyping research in the United States. Utilizing a cast of top American scholars with deep roots in asking stereotype-based questions, this book is essential reading for those wishing to understand what we know about past and present media representations as well as those wishing to take the baton and continue to advance media stereotyping research in the future.