Essay question:

Analyse the ways in which the media represent one group of people that you have studied?

The Media can represent any certain topic in any light they find most preferable to entertain and inform their audiences. The Media organisations tend to be solely run on the more educated older adults who have their own views on certain classes and ages. For example our youths today are perceived as being ignorant and violent to the law. This is an example of Giroux(1997)'s theory of youth as an empty category. This theory is described that it is the adult generation that is reflecting the ideas of how all our youths act today. This is not entirely on the true identities of the youths. This is more of the representation of how the adult generation see them in an unlightening way. This is all part of the media represenatation as the adults show how they want the youths to be shown; through their online social media distribution of communication to the rest of the world. The media represents our youths in all kinds of negative ways and it is becoming out of control and these youths are being represented in extreme threating ways when in reality this is not the case at all. Newspapers dont sell if they have stories about youths behaving and doing good deeds for their communitys, Newspapers sell when we witness and hear that these youths are being terrorising and 'yobs' so this encourages the newspapers to hightlight and take more focus to the negative representations then the good because the negative representations are more interesting to read. The newspapers




Stuart hall quote.
what is representation?

historical quadrophenia- mods and rockers
+ newspapers- moral panic(cohen)

spercifically
micro impacting on the macro.
talk alot about macro with the element of the narratives.

contemporary
harry brown- negative representations comparisions between quad+harry brown.

symbolic violence
(mcrobbie)
vs fish tank

police representations in H.B newspaper

society self fofilling prophacy, group vs individual

attack the block challenging societies views- cultural hegemony.

london riots in newspapers

mediation