Stereotypes and Imposed Narratives

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Stereotypes and Imposed Narratives
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Stereotypes and Imposed Narratives China
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Stereotypes and Imposed Narratives China
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Stereotypes and Imposed Narratives China
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Stereotypes of Chinese in the American Media Fu
Manchu
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Stereotypes of Chinese in the American Media Fu
Manchu
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Stereotypes of Chinese in the American Media
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Stereotypes

• Short Hand for Classifying
• Mainlanders
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• Shanghainese
• Filipinos
• Protesters
• Gays
• Vegetarians
• Indians
• Americans
• Australians
• Africans

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CBS Evening News

• http//www.cbsnews.com/sections/eveningnews/main34
  20.shtml

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CCTV-9
CCTV-9 China Central Television

• http//www.cctv.com/program/worldwidewatch/01/inde
  x.shtml

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Inventing the News
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Whats News? versusWhats Important?Galtung
and Ruge

• Frequency
• Threshold
• Absolute intensity
• Intensity Increase
• Unambiguity
• Meaningfulness
• Cultural proximity
• Relevance
• Consonance
• Predictability
• Demand

• Unexpectedness
• Unpredictability
• Scarcity
• Continuity
• Elite Nations
• Elite People
• Reference to Persons
• Reference to Something Negative

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News The View from the Ground

• Frequency vs. Reporting Long term trends analysis
  stories
• Threshold
• Absolute intensity vs. How important are the
  bloody details of that really BIG Car Wreck To
  Our Lives?
• Unambiguity vs. Tackling Complex Issues
• Meaningfulness
• Cultural proximity vs. Tackling stories that
  dont fit neatly into existing cultural
  stereotypes/images
• Relevance vs. Pointing out the relevance of
  heretofore unreported stories
• Consonance
• Predictability
• Demand vs. Stories that will challenge
  readersset views and stereotypes instead of
  feeding on and reinforcing them.

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News The View from the Ground

• Unexpectedness
• Unpredictability
• Scarcity vs. Spending less time on the novel or
  entertaining and more on the more predictable
  reality of day to day existence
• Continuity vs. Spending too much time on
  rehashing the same issue without shedding greater
  light
• Elite Nations vs. Emerging Nations Africa, Latin
  America, Asia,
• Elite People vs. Ordinary People, Working People,
  Class, Marginalized groups
• Reference to Persons vs. Willingness to Directly
  Tackle Significant Complex Abstract Issues
  (Subprime, Credit Default Swaps, Evolving Tax
  Policy)
• Reference to Something Negative vs. Documenting
  positive trends