The main characters in television shows ethnicity are mostly white, which leads to controversy, incorrect perceptions, and a battle over certain ethnicities role on a television show. Travis Dixon, associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, revisited this core controversy in a 2015 study published in a Communication Research, and found out that, “Whites were more likely to be portrayed as police officers in television (73%) than to be employed as officers in Los Angeles and Orange counties (53%). Given the confidence interval of 6% on either side of the estimate of white television officers on the news, this is a statistically significant 20 percentage-point difference” (Dixon.) In order to be able realize that the
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Rick Busselle, Assistant Professor of School of Communication at Washington State University, expresses in his article, “Television Viewing, and Perceptions about Race, “Historically in family centered shows, African Americans have been portrayed as less educated, from broken homes, and possessing lower status jobs than white” (3). Our perception of African Americans is going to be that they are less educated because that is what the television is portraying them as. Television continues to affect our perception of ethnicity everyday. Research analyst Nazgol Ghandnoosh explains, “Television news programs over-represent racial minorities as crime suspects and whites as crime victims. Black and Latino suspects are also more likely than whites to be presented in a non-individualized and threatening way — unnamed and in policy custody […].” Our perception of racial minorities is going to be that they are crime suspects on television because that is what they are portraying them as. Dana Mastro, Professor of Communcation at the University of California, Santa Barbara discusses, “Although images of blacks in primetime television has improved over the decades, this is not the case when it comes to their representation in print and television news where they are commonly depicted as violent and menacing criminals.” Provided the information above, we can conclude that certain ethnicities are represented …show more content…
On television, what we see is what we believe resulting in a false sense of racist beliefs, and acts. For example, Dana Mastro, Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Caifornia, Santa Barbara expresses, “Although images of Blacks in primetime entertainment television has improved over the decades, this is not the case when it comes to their representation in print and television news where they are commonly depicted as violent and menacing criminals.” Whites are dominant in society because of the stereotype they are given, versus African Americans where they are stereotyped as criminals as Mastro had stated above. There are different groups of ethnicities that are represented differently on television, and often portrayed as people whom they may not really be. Although, society would like to see quicker and significant changes in these industries, patience is a virtue in this situation regarding up-and- change. When all is said and done, in the end, television has shaped our perception of the reality regarding
Rick Busselle, Assistant Professor of School of Communication at Washington State University, expresses in his article, “Television Viewing, and Perceptions about Race, “Historically in family centered shows, African Americans have been portrayed as less educated, from broken homes, and possessing lower status jobs than white” (3). Our perception of African Americans is going to be that they are less educated because that is what the television is portraying them as. Television continues to affect our perception of ethnicity everyday. Research analyst Nazgol Ghandnoosh explains, “Television news programs over-represent racial minorities as crime suspects and whites as crime victims. Black and Latino suspects are also more likely than whites to be presented in a non-individualized and threatening way — unnamed and in policy custody […].” Our perception of racial minorities is going to be that they are crime suspects on television because that is what they are portraying them as. Dana Mastro, Professor of Communcation at the University of California, Santa Barbara discusses, “Although images of blacks in primetime television has improved over the decades, this is not the case when it comes to their representation in print and television news where they are commonly depicted as violent and menacing criminals.” Provided the information above, we can conclude that certain ethnicities are represented …show more content…
On television, what we see is what we believe resulting in a false sense of racist beliefs, and acts. For example, Dana Mastro, Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Caifornia, Santa Barbara expresses, “Although images of Blacks in primetime entertainment television has improved over the decades, this is not the case when it comes to their representation in print and television news where they are commonly depicted as violent and menacing criminals.” Whites are dominant in society because of the stereotype they are given, versus African Americans where they are stereotyped as criminals as Mastro had stated above. There are different groups of ethnicities that are represented differently on television, and often portrayed as people whom they may not really be. Although, society would like to see quicker and significant changes in these industries, patience is a virtue in this situation regarding up-and- change. When all is said and done, in the end, television has shaped our perception of the reality regarding