Other Film and Media Studies | Open Access Articles

Qatar, Al Jazeera, And The Arab Spring, Ahmed E. Souaiaia

Ahmed E SOUAIAIA

No abstract provided.

Deliberate Cultural Curriculum: A Case Study In Online Discourse For Race And Gender Issues In Media, Lorene Wales

Lorene Wales

A qualitative case study was performed on an online course titled, Race and Gender in Motion Pictures taught at Regent university. Students studied minority representation in cinema. The research questions are, when students are presented with deliberate, intentional cross cultural media in an online environment do they develop civil discourse that is positive and beneficial? Does exposure to minority stereotypes in media increase sensitivity to their discourse with other students and can this discourse develop over the course of a semester? Results showed that students did develop relational discourse that was self-reported as more sensitive regarding race and gender. The …

Go to article

Balancing Bias In The Media, Sharon Beder

Sharon Beder

The news is presented to give the impression it is factual, uncoloured by journalistic bias, so each side of a controversy is accurately reported. This paper outlines the way that the influence of editors, owners, advertisers – as well as journalistic conventions – are more important to the final result of journalism than the reporting skills or biases of individual journalists.