media culture and identity

disney ideology  disney has many projects that incorporate diversity and positive gender roles  naturalizing hiearchy  disney defines their hiearchy using physical characteristics of their characters  heroes and heroines are attractive, skillful, worthy, lucky, vicious and powerful  villians are unattractive  zootopia and its progression diverse themes  disney films all play a similar refrain a stylized, naturalized and westernized elite hero who combats a privileged  visual metaphors of good and evil were simple and transparent: a regal king and his heir: an evil uncle who covets the kingdom and lesser passive animal citizens overrun by social undesirables in need of leadership  disney modernizes narrative, by using life problems of corrupt leaders and different wrongdoings of people in power  ordering coercion and power  disney films decisions reinforce the current state of hiearchy  disney prefers elite c...

economic class  political class  cultural class  working class is shown as incompetent  women usually are in charge because men don't know what to do 

lipsitz meaning of memory: family class and ethnicity in early television  government and big business alarmed at massive grasroots miy offerlitanc

the introduction of public platforms starting around 2006 like facebook, twitter and the iphone in 2007 has given the ability to become individual media producers  this allows people to create the media they want to consume  even though this people of color portrayed as criminals  media has portrayed minorities as criminals in Television and on the big screen  media as a platform  the creation of media has allowed many to digitize their movements and organizations helping  using media as an outlet to voice their racist rhetoric white supremacists continue