More examples we can use are…
Waterloo road,
Bad education.
Must include as many examples and theorist as you can link= more marks.
Information I found shocking from the link above:
The Independent- Richard Garner; "Hoodies, Louts, Scum": how media demonises teenagers
"Attack the blog"- A film showing british culture- youth.
~The representations of youth… shown are "yobs" and "scum" who are violent and you should be wary of them.
~The effects of these representations…Makes teenagers feel like everyone thinks they are bad, making them act in this way, because if people think they are this, why not do it?- I this case leading to the Self Fulfilling prophecy.
~The role of media representations in society...
HOMEWORK!!!!
For example- the police- In the Hillsborough disaster- because the police had power they got away for so many years at the fans being the reason for the event, even though now we know this not to be true.
Hebdige- Media representations of young people is portrayed as either fun or trouble. Artificial tribes. Youth subcultures resist hegemony through style.
Skin heads- 1970s- unemployments- fat cats- they were saying society was bad, they didn't want to belong to it, thought society had nothing to do with them, they just wanted to have fun.
Punks
Hippie,
Hoodies
In the modern day, youth is shown as "dangerous" and "thugs", through wearing hoodies.
I think this is a wrong stereotype, even though there as such groups who wear hoodies and aren't nice, although not every aspect of the youth culture is in this way.
Media coverage-
Acland- 1995- The effects of media representations of delinquent youth, Developed the concept of the ideology of protection, media representations of anti-social youth reinforces hegemony (need to control them or they will be destructive- the media during the riots- they published headlines calling them delinquents and getting people to restrict them from going out (parents) so they don't get involved in that behaviour.
To maintain social order and hegemony.
Examples:
Quadrophenia~ the police arrested them for being trouble, their parents shouted at them for having drugs. To teach parents not to let their children be this way- to discipline them. He was out of control, his parents told him to "buck his ideas up"-
Kidulthood
Babylon
Bullet Boy
St. Trinians
Gerbner-1986-Cultivation theory- The effect of television on viewers. The repetitive nature of tv means that over time tv influences how people see the world- The constant view that teenagers are bad, the older generation may be lead to believe this is true and to make sure their children don't go down this route. The older generation would also try to get the streets better- getting the police to control the youth.
The more likely they are to believe social reality portrayed on tv.
It is used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now its a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.
For example:
Rupert Murdoch- The news corporation- The Sun- They may be biased- Right wing influenced.
Greg Philo- Argues that contemporary "hoodie cinema" reflects middle class anxiety about the threat to their dominance posed by the working class.
Angela McRobbie- Suggests that contemporary British Tv often contains "symbolic violence" against the working class, for example, representations which emphasise middle class dominance and depict the working class in very negative ways
Ann Gould- 6 key stereotypes in the medias representation of youth…
Rebellious
Artificial tribe
Sexual
Nihilistic- not following state rules.
Violent
Self destructive.
Two newspapers articles of how youth is represented.
Theres a drive to tell people and make them think that all teenagers are "Violent"- Ann Gould's stereotypes- And the protection ideology- informing people to keep children inside the house, but also people could argue there needs to be more police. The hegemony here can be the control of the police- keeping and informing other teenagers not to behave like this or they too will be sentenced to prison- acting as a deterrent for them to display these behaviours.
Giroux- 1997- Youth becomes an empty category in representation- reflects adults concerns. Media representation of youth does not reflect reality of youth identity- its an exaggerated caricatures. Watching too much tv in order to believe it.
Cohen- The mods and the rockers riots in the 1960s. From time to time "folk devils" emerge.
Lots of the information was fictitious.
They wanted to make a negative stereotyped view of youth. Out a dampener of the people coming through and trying to join, trying to involvck the parents to stop their children buying things such as bikes.
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