One more link on unequal treatment of minorities in mediahohaiyeeJanuary 2 2010, 17:39:36 UTC
Intentionally or not, when thinking of who to kill off or who to mistreat, the white straight characters as a whole are relatively more immune than the ones that aren't, as RTD have said, "you don't rape Snow White". Tosh was repeatedly sexually harassed or threatened in Torchwood (most overt being beacons brecons, and then Adam), in Gwen's case, it was only ever the Cute Bad Boys that are painted that way, Owen or Captain Spike.
2009-12-31: Tufts University Study: TV May Perpetuate Race Bias http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/4959522.html "So the group decided to examine the medium of television, which connects the vast majority of Americans, and through which many people predominantly receive their social and cultural cues. The study looked at 11 popular prime-time TV shows, such as Heroes, Scrubs, House, CSI: Miami and Grey's Anatomy, whose casts include both white and black recurring characters of equal status.
In the first of a series of four studies, researchers showed participants TV clips in which a white character and black character interact - but the segments were stripped of sound and the black character was digitally deleted. The idea was to ensure that neither race nor dialogue would color viewers' analysis. The exercise was repeated with the white character deleted. Researchers then asked the viewers, white college students, to evaluate in each circumstance, whether the unseen character appeared to be treated positively or negatively by the seen character, and how well liked he or she appeared to be. In the end, across the majority of TV shows, viewers consistently said that the white characters had received more positive treatment and were better liked than their black counterparts."
2009-12-31: Tufts University Study: TV May Perpetuate Race Bias
http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/4959522.html
"So the group decided to examine the medium of television, which connects the vast majority of Americans, and through which many people predominantly receive their social and cultural cues. The study looked at 11 popular prime-time TV shows, such as Heroes, Scrubs, House, CSI: Miami and Grey's Anatomy, whose casts include both white and black recurring characters of equal status.
In the first of a series of four studies, researchers showed participants TV clips in which a white character and black character interact - but the segments were stripped of sound and the black character was digitally deleted. The idea was to ensure that neither race nor dialogue would color viewers' analysis. The exercise was repeated with the white character deleted. Researchers then asked the viewers, white college students, to evaluate in each circumstance, whether the unseen character appeared to be treated positively or negatively by the seen character, and how well liked he or she appeared to be. In the end, across the majority of TV shows, viewers consistently said that the white characters had received more positive treatment and were better liked than their black counterparts."
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