Current Events Analysis

Ugochukwu Ifunanyachukwu

Brandon University

Native Studies

Mr Ian Puppe

5th December, 2022.

 The most well-known nightly news shows in Canada closely mirror news reporting on
the most popular US news network, showing that Canadian coverage of its southern neighbor is
not nearly as antagonistic as some media critics have alleged. According to a recent television
news study by the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada's Media Observatory, news stories
about President George W. Bush and the US-led occupation of Iraq on CBC's The National and
the CTV News, CBC, APTN during the past three years have actually been somewhat less
negative than news stories on the profession and social psychologists adopted stereotype to
designate the images during that same period by the NBC Nightly News. Farnsworth, S. J.,
Soroka, S., & Young, L. (2007).

Stereotypes are a byproduct of the process through which all people develop their unique
identities. Its origins may be found at the very beginning of our growth. Between the ages of a
few weeks and around five months, the newborn transitions from a state of being in which
everything is experienced as an extension of the self to a developing sense of a separate identity.
4 At that time, the child's demands on the world are denied, and this directly contributes to the
child's new sense of "different." We all start by expecting that our basic needs such as food,
warmth, and comfort will be supplied.One feels like the outside world is just an extension of
oneself. That aspect of oneself is responsible for giving warmth, food, and comfort. Anxiety
results from a sense of losing control over the world as the youngster learns to differentiate more
and more between the environment and self. But very quickly the youngster starts to alter his
mental image of people and things so that they might look "good" even though their conduct is
viewed as being terrible in order to overcome concerns related to the inability to control the
universe explained by Kohm, Steven, and Katharina Maier (2022).

The impact of media-driven stereotypes on audience trust and attitude has long been a
topic of discussion. The amount to which they affect the ecological view of the media recipient
in deciding their level of trust and sentiments, however, is not sufficiently agreed upon. This
study investigates the impact of dispositional and social sensitivity to media, using an analogy
from the Differential Susceptibility to Media Effect Model (hereinafter DSMM) idea that media
impacts are conditional and dependent on differential susceptibility. In order to do this, the study
supports the role of media consumers' gender (dispositional susceptibility) and ethnicity (social
susceptibility) in influencing the results of media-generated stereotypes, media trust (MT), and

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attitude toward media organizations (AO). The survey approach was used to gather information
from 1061 university students enrolled in Pakistani public sector universities using a self-
administered questionnaire. The findings offer factual proof that media-produced stereotypes
significantly lower media trust and attitudes toward the media organization. The findings also
support the notion that the ecological viewpoint of the receiver, including factors like race and
gender, has a strong bearing on the stereotyping that influences the recipient's trust and views. In
terms of management, the research recommends that, in order to adapt to the modern media
landscape, journalistic methods be more inclusive of ethno-cultural diversity Raza, and Syed
Hassan (2021).

For Indigenous peoples and communities, social media technologies have had ambiguous
political ramifications. On the one hand, they provide fresh vistas through which settler colonial
forces of exclusion, marginalization, and disenfranchisement can increase and expand their
influence. However, social media has also provided possibilities for people to oppose and reject
the brutality of colonialism as well as its intellectual equivalents of control and racial superiority.
This has let people imagine and strive toward alternative futures. In this essay, we analyze the
experiences of Indigenous Canadian social media users to map the politics of "feeling" using
ideas from settler colonial studies and affect theory. First, we contend that knowledge of the
"settler gaze" a latent audience of non-Indigenous people who are monitoring in ill faith often
mediates the online behaviors of Indigenous social media users. An emotional politics of hope is
about increasing a body's power to act and creating alternative possibilities for Indigenous people
if "policing" is about restricting what online bodies are capable byCarlson, B., & Frazer (2020).

Numerous studies show that despite having a significant impact on society and playing a
crucial role in how people learn about one another, the mass media nevertheless perpetuates
negative stereotypes about various ethnic and racial groups. Ethnic minority communities are
frequently ignored and disregarded in news, drama, and gaming.

When they are shown, they arefrequently portrayed unfavorably as the troublesome
"other," disproportionately portrayed as aggressive or criminal, and "less than" dominant groups.
Examples of such roles are the model Asian immigrant or the exotic Latina (i.e., less intelligent,
less wealthy, less powerful). A counter-narrative to mainstream preconceptions may be found in
ethnic minority media, which is media created by and for ethnic minority communities.

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However, these media can also be prone to stereotyping and restricted typecasting. Because of
complicated media production processes, norms and values, financial imperatives, and a dearth
of ethnic minority media producers, stereotypical depictions are consequently ubiquitous across
media formats and kinds. Mass media play a part in forming collective identities and intergroup
attitudes, and by stereotyping certain groups, they skew consumers' perceptions of various
groups.There is evidence to show that these biased media portrayals might not only increase
public animosity toward different ethnic groups but also undermine the self-esteem of ethnic
minority individuals. Research on strategies to counter stereotypes and encourage more positive
representations in the media is therefore essential.

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 Work Cited

Farnsworth, S. J., Soroka, S., & Young, L. Canadian TV news on Bush and Iraq: No more hostile
than top US network. POLICY, 89. (2007).

Kohm, Steven, and Katharina Maier. "The darkest time in our history”: An analysis of news
media constructions of liquor theft in Canada’s settler colonial context." Crime, Media,
Culture (2022): 17416590221088810.

Raza, Syed Hassan, Umer Zaman, and Moneeba Iftikhar. "Examining the Effects of Media-
Generated Stereotypes on Receivers’ Trust and Attitude in Pakistan. Moderating Influence of
Ethnicity and Gender." Information 12.1 (2021): 35.

Carlson, B., & Frazer, R. “They Got Filters”: Indigenous Social Media, the Settler Gaze, and a
Politics of Hope. Social Media + Society, 6(2).(2020)https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120925261

Ross, T, Ratuva, S. (eds). Media and Stereotypes. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity.
Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. . (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0242-8_26-1
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