Electronic mass media reinforce and standardize inherited Orientalist stereotypes

Evidence

One aspect of the electronic, postmodern world is that there has been a reinforcement of the stereotypes by which the Orient is viewed. Television, the films, and all the media’s resources have forced information into more and more standardized molds. So far as the Orient is concerned, standardization and cultural stereotyping have intensified the hold of the nineteenth-century academic and imaginative demonology of “the mysterious Orient.” — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 99

Categorization

• XREF: Direct bridge to Islamophobia field: media standardization as the channel through which 19th-century Orientalist imagery persists into the postmodern era. — connects to: Western audiences explain away Asian creators’ skills through exoticizing frames — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame…, 127; Selective media focus on Muslim sexism constructs Western enlightenment as its opposite; Media channels reward native-informant Muslims who reproduce imperial Islamophobia (+1 more)
• SEED: An essay angle: how media standardization functions as the transmission mechanism for colonial-era stereotypes that academic Orientalism no longer states plainly.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 99