Author Question: A reporter on an entertainment news channel defends the channel's decision to run images of a nude ... (Read 23 times)

magmichele12 · **on:** Aug 8, 2018

A reporter on an entertainment news channel defends the channel's decision to run images of a nude celebrity, which have been distributed without that celebrity's endorsement, by stating that they are just giving the public what they want to see. This is

a) reflection hypothesis.
b) social construction of gender.
c) media bias.
d) agents of information.

Question 2

Through its varied use of images, products, and advertisements the media creates a very specific set of gender roles for men and women. Because this influences and shapes how we live our daily life the media becomes an agent of

a) social control.
b) human agency.
c) cultural consumerism.
d) collective consciousness.