Media Theorists and Quotes

• Stanley Cohen - 'People who supposedly threaten the social order, Folk Devils.' 
• S Cohen - 'The media reacts to an aspect of behaviour.'
• Defleur - 'The media has selective influences on people.'
• Defleur - 'The more one depends on media, the more media will be important to someone.'
• Gatling and Ruge - 'Exclusivity, proximity and recency.' - News and newspapers
• Gauntlett - 'Identity is complicated.'
• Judith Butler - 'Gender is what you do, not what you are.'
• Judith Butler - 'Identity is performed through your expressions.'
• Stuart Hall - 'Media seems to reflect reality, but in fact they construct it.'
• S Hall - 'Audiences read text differently, some accept, some negotiate and some reject reading.'
• S Hall - 'Identity is ambiguous'
• S Hall - 'The media defines for the majority of the population.'
• S Hall - 'Invisible nature of ideology', 'Other' - Binary opposition
• Althusser - 'The social practise of miss recognising yourself based on a full consciousness.'
• Althusser - 'The power of the mass media resides in their ability to place a subject.'
• Neale - 'Genre are instances of repetition and differences.' - Genre theory
• Mulvey - 'Media texts are created as if through the eyes of a heterosexual male.'
• Perkins- 'Stereotypes would not work if they were so simple.'