SOCB58H3 Study Guide - White Supremacy
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The walt disney company is a powerful force in creating childhood culture all over the world. disney"s massive success is based on images of innocence, magic, and fun endorsed by parents and teachers, and are enthusiastically embraced by children. disney has made a spectacle of innocence. It hides behind innocence in a way that allows it to separate corporate culture from corporate power. media conglomeration raises fundamental concerns about its impact on democracy. disney has monopolized the market on how it represents itself: very concerned about policing its image, policing its representations. Encoded in media images are ideologies about how we think about the world, belief systems, and constructions of reality. We develop notions of reality from the cultural mechanisms around us: the media socializes us with an array of images, stereotypes, belief systems about race, class, gender.
