These images are ones which show a youth collective identity because…
1. The stereotype of always being on their phones.
2. The stereotype of drinking in groups.
3. smoking
4. vandalising.
The reason I think these are a collective identity is because these groups are together in what they do
- Describing them as "Yobs" suggesting all teenagers are a stereotyped criminals
- The youth are the cause of the riots as they are careless and cause fires and vandalising things because they do not care.
- Being shown as troublemakers.
Right wing: Sun
Left wing: The Mirror
Homework:
Creating an essay!!!
Collective identity refers to a set of individuals sense of belong to a group/ collective, sharing the same values.A representation is the description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way. Additionally, any consideration of a "collective identity" must take into account the role that representation plays within the construction of the mass media. At the top of this blog post are four images which I chose to portray what "collective identity" is. The images I have chosen are a stereotypical collective identity of how I believe youth to be portrayed as. In the cases of my images, it shows how teenagers share the same values of being careless and destructive, including, drinking and partying too much and spreading graffiti within public spaces. Another stereotype I chose to include as an example of the youth collective identity is the anti-social aspect of it, they may be all out together but at the same time they'll be on their phones not actually verbally saying anything to each other, being more likely to be texting the person standing next to them. Furthermore, a collective identity includes the group of people giving into peer pressure as a result of being too scared to be "outcasted" from their group of friends. This links with an example image which I chose above as I picked an image of a youngish-looking teen smoking. You can therefore see how my images for collective identity, also convey the definition of representation, because using the stereotype of how the mass media constructs the term "Youth", I was able to pick out images "representing" the "collective identity". Even though the terms interlink, there is a different between the two. Collective identity is the stereotype itself- the way youth have the same values that going out smoking and partying all the time is the right way to behave. Whereas, representation is the way a stereotype is shown to an audience.
Mediation is the process of selection and shaping, creating a new meaning from an original event. This can also be called forming a biased view on a topic. For example is someone gave a speech, an editor for a magazine company (for example), may pick and choose what to include in the article and this way not be showing the whole truth of the speech. The people who make the decisions in the mediation process may something be influenced by their own beliefs or values- the editor for the magazine article may believe badly about immigrants and then be led to pick and choose what the person giving the speech about, to fit their opinion. This is the process by which representations are created, this is because those who do have power over what is included in the media, can form and shape stereotypes of the representations which best suit their favor. Another example of mediation being important with regards to representation (linking back with the images above of the collective identity), the media may believe the stereotype of youth is correct and everyone who is a teenager act in this manor. They may do this by making an article on all the bad things teenagers have done in groups, yet because they believe this stereotype is correct, they are likely to leave out the good factors which some groups of teenagers do, for example charity work. Therefore this shows how the mediation of views show a clear and at most time bias representation of a given subject. Above are two images of newspaper front covers, one being of the "Daily Mirror" and one of "The Sun". These are examples of mediation because it shows the representation of teenagers causing chaos. The Daily Mirror's headline is "Yob Rule", with the subheading of "woman jumps for her life as the riots spread", joined by and image of the woman jumping out of what appears to be a burning building. This conveys mediation because it implies how it is all "Yobs" causing this chaos, but is leaving out the factors that part of the youth identity would have either been at home too scared to leave their home or helping those who need help. Thus suggesting how mediation forgets half the information. Furthermore, even though the riots started with teenagers, it wasn't just them who continued the riots, some of the older generation joined in too. Over 3000 people were arrested over the riots, not all of these would have been "yobs" as images have shown adults too, looting shops for their own selfish needs. This supports how mediation attempts to form a bias view in their readers/audience.
Hegemony is the leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others. One social views being placed on the others, for example, age hegemony can be adults telling children what to do because they believe to have more power due to being older in age. Therefore, we can take this definition of hegemony to explain how this influences mediation because people may see themselves as "more dominate" and hold more right to create this biases of representations. For the instances of the newspapers above, The Sun holds a "right wing view" and therefore may see themselves as more dominant than the "lower class", of whom would have been in charge of creating the chaos which was the riots. Therefore, this hegemony The Sun believed they held, influenced the bias mediation representation of the lower class being the reason behind the riots- the reason I believe this is because the headline is "The 3rd day of mindless violence", "mindless" being the key word. This is because it implies a "looking down the nose" view at the class causing the "mindless" violence.
Collective identity refers to a set of individuals sense of belong to a group/ collective, sharing the same values.A representation is the description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way. Additionally, any consideration of a "collective identity" must take into account the role that representation plays within the construction of the mass media. At the top of this blog post are four images which I chose to portray what "collective identity" is. The images I have chosen are a stereotypical collective identity of how I believe youth to be portrayed as. In the cases of my images, it shows how teenagers share the same values of being careless and destructive, including, drinking and partying too much and spreading graffiti within public spaces. Another stereotype I chose to include as an example of the youth collective identity is the anti-social aspect of it, they may be all out together but at the same time they'll be on their phones not actually verbally saying anything to each other, being more likely to be texting the person standing next to them. Furthermore, a collective identity includes the group of people giving into peer pressure as a result of being too scared to be "outcasted" from their group of friends. This links with an example image which I chose above as I picked an image of a youngish-looking teen smoking. You can therefore see how my images for collective identity, also convey the definition of representation, because using the stereotype of how the mass media constructs the term "Youth", I was able to pick out images "representing" the "collective identity". Even though the terms interlink, there is a different between the two. Collective identity is the stereotype itself- the way youth have the same values that going out smoking and partying all the time is the right way to behave. Whereas, representation is the way a stereotype is shown to an audience.
Mediation is the process of selection and shaping, creating a new meaning from an original event. This can also be called forming a biased view on a topic. For example is someone gave a speech, an editor for a magazine company (for example), may pick and choose what to include in the article and this way not be showing the whole truth of the speech. The people who make the decisions in the mediation process may something be influenced by their own beliefs or values- the editor for the magazine article may believe badly about immigrants and then be led to pick and choose what the person giving the speech about, to fit their opinion. This is the process by which representations are created, this is because those who do have power over what is included in the media, can form and shape stereotypes of the representations which best suit their favor. Another example of mediation being important with regards to representation (linking back with the images above of the collective identity), the media may believe the stereotype of youth is correct and everyone who is a teenager act in this manor. They may do this by making an article on all the bad things teenagers have done in groups, yet because they believe this stereotype is correct, they are likely to leave out the good factors which some groups of teenagers do, for example charity work. Therefore this shows how the mediation of views show a clear and at most time bias representation of a given subject. Above are two images of newspaper front covers, one being of the "Daily Mirror" and one of "The Sun". These are examples of mediation because it shows the representation of teenagers causing chaos. The Daily Mirror's headline is "Yob Rule", with the subheading of "woman jumps for her life as the riots spread", joined by and image of the woman jumping out of what appears to be a burning building. This conveys mediation because it implies how it is all "Yobs" causing this chaos, but is leaving out the factors that part of the youth identity would have either been at home too scared to leave their home or helping those who need help. Thus suggesting how mediation forgets half the information. Furthermore, even though the riots started with teenagers, it wasn't just them who continued the riots, some of the older generation joined in too. Over 3000 people were arrested over the riots, not all of these would have been "yobs" as images have shown adults too, looting shops for their own selfish needs. This supports how mediation attempts to form a bias view in their readers/audience.
Hegemony is the leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others. One social views being placed on the others, for example, age hegemony can be adults telling children what to do because they believe to have more power due to being older in age. Therefore, we can take this definition of hegemony to explain how this influences mediation because people may see themselves as "more dominate" and hold more right to create this biases of representations. For the instances of the newspapers above, The Sun holds a "right wing view" and therefore may see themselves as more dominant than the "lower class", of whom would have been in charge of creating the chaos which was the riots. Therefore, this hegemony The Sun believed they held, influenced the bias mediation representation of the lower class being the reason behind the riots- the reason I believe this is because the headline is "The 3rd day of mindless violence", "mindless" being the key word. This is because it implies a "looking down the nose" view at the class causing the "mindless" violence.
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