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Images that Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media Paperback – September 30, 2003

by Paul Martin Lester (Editor), Susan Ross (Editor)

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Images That Injure provides an examination of a particular set of pictures that do harm to others,and in turn to all of us. These images―media-promulgated stereotypes of various and diverse groups of people―cause harm in both direct and indirect ways by presenting oversimplified, mostly negative, and often deceptive depictions. In this collection of new and revised essays, noted scholars explore the ways in which these images are created, viewed, and ultimately ingrained into the American culture, examining newspapers, books, films, advertisements, commercials,television shows, magazines, and the Internet. Groups as diverse as African-Americans, women, the elderly, the physically disabled, gays and lesbians, and Jewish Americans are considered here; also included is a special section on post-9/11 stereotyping in the media.

The specific examples presented in these pages provide a wealth of material for students and professionals in journalism, advertising, public relations, ethics, gender studies, and a great many other fields. The authors give thoughtful and creative conclusions concerning alternative representations―arguing that, contrary to what we might believe, media stereotyping is hardly a necessary byproduct of mass culture. Finally, these discussions illuminate how each of these media and each of us individually and collectively participate in a sea of meaning that is simultaneously personal and social, unique and shared, linked and independent.

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PAUL MARTIN LESTER is Professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. He co-authors the monthly column Ethics Matters for News Photographer, the journal of the National Press Photographers Association. He has given keynote speeches, presentations, and workshops throughout the United States and in Australia, Canada, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

SUSAN DENTE ROSS is Associate Professor at the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University, where she directs the undergraduate program in Media and the Law. In addition to conducting research on media portrayals of minorities, she is a First Amendment scholar and the former head of the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Praeger; 2nd edition (September 30, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 027597846X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0275978464
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9.25 inches

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Dr. Paul Martin Lester is a Clinical Professor with the School of the Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication at the University of Texas at Dallas.

After an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and employment as a photojournalist for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Lester received a Master’s from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. from Indiana University.

He is the author or editor of several books including: Visual Communication: Images with Messages 7th Edition, Visual Ethics: A Guide for Photographers, Journalists and Filmmakers, Digital Innovations for Mass Communications: Engaging the User, Visual Communication on the Web with xtine burrough, Images that Injure Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media Third Edition with Susan Ross, On Floods and Photo Ops: How Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush Exploited Catastrophes, Visual Journalism: A Guide for New Media Professionals with Chris Harris, Desktop Computing Workbook A Guide for Using 15 Programs in Macintosh and Windows Formats, and Photojournalism An Ethical Approach.

For four years Lester was the editor of Journalism & Communication Monographs published by Sage and for five years the editor of the Visual Communication Quarterly published by Taylor & Francis. For several years, he co-wrote a monthly column, “Ethics Matters” for News Photographer magazine for the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). In 2015 he was honored by the NPPA with the Kenneth P. McLaughlin Award of Merit for “rendering continuing outstanding service in the interests of news photography.”

Lester has given speeches, presentations, and workshops throughout the United States and in Australia, Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. His research interests include mass media ethics, new communications technologies, and visual communications.

Weblink: http://paulmartinlester.info

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Helpful Overview of Our Own Stereotypes

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I used this text for a lecture in a class I taught on Theology and Film. The authors provide a great summary of how we stereotype, and thus do violence to one another. And yet, stereotypes are part of our shared culture. I think we surprised ourselves as we could all too easily name the stereotypes that the authors draw out.

We participate in these views even though we reject them. It is this reality upon which the writers of sitcoms rely. We may laugh at these stereotypes because they are shared, and we are in on the joke. We may see these things in our own life experiences and yet reject them because we ourselves would not want to be reduced to this wooden image. Writing in books and films are dependent upon stereotypes.

The authors remind us that stereotypes become harmful when they are combined with prejudice, ignorance, and discrimination. "History has shown that stereotyping can lead to scapegoating, which can lead to discrimination, which can lead to segregation, which can led to physical abuse, which can lead to state-sponsored genocide." "Media stereotypes reinforce and magnify our personal stereotypes. As a consequence, media stereotypes play a significant role in the social disintegration that produces hatred, violence, and misunderstanding. Images are especially powerful because visual messages are products of our sense of sight, not our cognition. Pictures are highly emotional objects that have long-lasting staying power within the deepest regions of the brain. Bur both textual and visual media messages that stereotype individuals by their concentrations, frequency, and omissions become a part of our long term individual and cultural memory. And when certain individuals or ethnicities appear only as criminals, entertainers, and sports heroes, we forget that the vast majority of people--regardless of their particular cultural heritage--have the same hopes and fears as the rest of us."