- Youths portrayed through media negatively
- unfairly demonised?
- real stats of teenage crime is 12%
- news of the world not provoking the situation just showing an interest
- paranoid adults - adult fears
- discriminatory and degrading
- generation asbo
- press stirring the image of teenagers - paying mods to throw rocks
- jamie bulger case - fear of children - crime age change from 14 to 10 - cctv survelience
- "the press calls them reckless, irresponsible members of society, but statistics tell quite a different story about britains teens"
because of the proliferation of negative press its cultivating the adults minds and demonating british youth, the more you see it the more you believe it. desensitisation theory, the more we see the less likely we are to be upset by it such as violence on tv. because youth are demonised, they are then becoming self fufilling prophesies.
IPSOS MORI Survey 2005:
40% of articles focus on violence, crime, anti-social behaviour; 71% are negative.
Brunel University 2007:
TV news: violent crime or celebrities; young people are only 1% of sources
Women in Journalism 2008:
72% of articles were negative; 3.4% positive
75% about crime, drugs, police
Boys: yobs, thugs, sick, feral, hoodies, louts, scum
Only positive stories are about boys who died young
Case Study
- What role did new media technologies particularly social networking sites play in the London Riots?
- Do media cause riots or revolutions?
- Technology and surveillance: mobile phones, CCTV, 24 hour news
The London Riots
- How can you link cultural hegemony to this article?
- How does the article suggest moral panic is being caused?
- Can you link in McRobbies Symbolic violence theory? How?
- How far do you agree with this article that governments decisions and policies are continuing to create a divide between the middle and working class? Discuss
- Between 6 and 10 August 2011, several London boroughs and districts of cities and towns across England suffered widespread rioting, looting and arson.
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