TV Stereotypes - Lesson
This lesson familiarises students with stereotypes and helps them understand the role that stereotypes play in television's portrayal of life.
This lesson familiarises students with stereotypes and helps them understand the role that stereotypes play in television's portrayal of life.
To make students aware of the ways in which male violence is used and promoted in advertising.
In this lesson students learn about the history of blackface and other examples of majority-group actors playing minority-group characters such as White actors playing Asian and Aboriginal characters and non-disabled actors playing disabled characters.
This lesson introduces students to the ways in which packaging is designed to attract kids.
Questions about media violence have populated the headlines for almost as long as mass media has existed. Every few years, there’s a new line up of suspects: music, social media platforms, video games, television shows and movies.
It is difficult to set down in a definitive way what effect media violence has on consumers and young people. There are a number of reasons for this, but the main issue is that terms like “violence” and “aggression” are not easily defined or categorized. To a child, almost any kind of conflict, such as the heated arguments of some talk-radio shows or primetime news pundits, can sound as aggressive as two cartoon characters dropping anvils on one another.