Journalist: If any other group was treated the way teens are it would probably be against the law.
Public adults have a distorted view of the truth. they think that the amount of crime in Britain is extremely high(around 85% on average) caused by teens, when in fact only 12% of crime is commited by youths.
Despite the debates around the Hyperdermic seringe needle (theory) that people believe what they read in the newspapers, I would argue that through the proliferation of negative press that actually this theory does exist, particularly in adults.
Newspaper denies that they increase the overall fear of young people.
Police: agree media increases fear of youths, the views arent realistic. Tide of paranoid adults that think teens are no good.
Local shop owners getting moscittos (high pitch noises outside of shop) to stop youths from hanging around their shop, adults cannot hear it.
Teen 'asbo queen' got more publicity than what murderes, rapists did. Treated over the top?
Always been a minority of misbehaving teens
50 years ago people were paying teens to fight to give them something to write about in their newspaper. Journalists may still get people to do things to give them something to write about.
4.2 million CCTV cameras in the UK people are now caught doing crimes, more crimes are shown on TV making people more fearful. The more fearful we become the more we lose our sense of percpective linking with the cultivation theory, the more you see it the more likely you are to believe it is happening in real life.
You are 6 times more likely to fall down a flight of stairs and die than you are to be a victim of a knife attack.
The small minority of crimes caused by teens is being demonated and putting a bad image on the whole generation.
Because of the demonised views of teens created by the media youths feel they need to fight to show they are not like this yet doing this they end up behaving in the way the media represents them because they get angered by it, responding to the way the media want youths to behave so they can write about it.
We are active consumers, we don't take responsibilty for our own actions we have to blame somebody e.g MacDonalds made me fat therefore I have to sue them, when in fact you are responsible for your own diet. Reflecting youths saying the media made me behave in this antisocial way when in fact you can decide how you behave.
Representing youth
IPSOS MORI Survey 2005:
- 40% of articles on violence, crime anti-social behaviour, 71 % are negative
- TV news violent crime or celebrities, young people are only 1% of sources.
- 72% pf articles were negative, 3.4% were positive
1. What role did the new media technologies, particularly social netwrokign sites play in the London riots?
2. Do media cause riots or revolutions? (think about globalisation, technology and surveillance: mobile phoned, CCTV, 24-hour news...)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/sep/08/broken-britain-rhetoric-fuels-fear
How can you link cultural hegemony to this article?
"massively exaggerated view of problems like crime and drugs, and stigmatise schools in disadvantaged areas."
How does the article suggest moral panic is being caused?
Can you link in McRobbies (symbolising youths as being violent e.g. through the hoody) 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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