I and my
group discussed how news media create moral panic and represent teenagers in a
negative way that the public should fear; we came up with several of different
example of how the new media represent teenagers in a negative way. The
examples we came up with were that the media represent teenagers as hood rats
as they see groups of teenagers on the roads drinking and smoking which causes
bad influence on Youngers. However we said this puts a bad impact on the good
teenagers as well as they also get that negative representation. However there
are also positive representations of teenagers that subvert that stereotype for
example there are youth groups which help people etc. and Disney which shows
the positive side of teenagers as Disney does not contain any smoking, drugs
elements etc. I and my group also discussed why might the news media want to represent
the teenagers negatively and we came up with different things for example. The
news media always want a point of discussion and to something to talk about so
that they get the audience attention and make money by raising false awareness
most of the time. Raising awareness helps media make more money as the audience
want to know more and more. We also discussed that there are binary oppositions
between teenagers as you see some good and some bad but the as we see on the
media we always see the bad side of them which is a very common stereotype.
Sunday 30 June 2013
Tuesday 25 June 2013
Critical investigation prep
Media language
The diegetic sounds of the shouting and the bashing of the riots displays the dangerous atmosphere giving the audience a message of a menacing environment portraying the character roles of the youths being the villain and the police being the hero, as suggested by Vladimir Propp, 'as it denotes the action of the character'[16].
Theory's
from this, its suggesting that teenage twitter users are mindless passive audience, as suggested by the hypodermic needle[13]
The media puts forward its hegemonic views that the public passively accepts (hypodermic syringe)[29]
‘Teenage Twitter users are not the sharpest, most culturally-aware knives in the drawer-- but we are also regurgitating news that you've probably already seen’[12] from this, its suggesting that teenage twitter users are mindless passive audience, as suggested by the hypodermic needle[13]
Anything the mass media states should be accepted by the public, reflecting the Marxist perspective where the ruling class stay on top and exploit those lower (the working class).
Also the lean back media plays a part, as the content they advertise and how they advertise can be looked at in two ways. Looking at Stuart Hall’s reception theory[10]
Ideology;
QUOTE 1; "British youths are 'the most unpleasant and violent in the world”[1]
Because of the media’s racial ideologies its created ‘power hierarchies’ to establish which race is more admirable.
Institutions
But then that is just a case of what the audience is interested in, and media institution’s goal is to get the most power and to get power they need popularity.
Genre
Or to convey a certain message e.g. all black people are inferior to white people or maybe just for comedy, it depends on what genre we are looking at.
Representation
Overall teenagers are represented in a negative way and have been labelled as deviant but ‘the notion of ‘youth’ is seen as a fairly recent invention’[28].
Audience
One of the media’s main purposes is to provide their audience with a good story or a new story. The media puts forward its hegemonic views that the public passively accepts (hypodermic syringe)[29]
The audience is so used to it and takes it in that it seems normal to them and when they go out into reality they take on those beliefs as their own.
The diegetic sounds of the shouting and the bashing of the riots displays the dangerous atmosphere giving the audience a message of a menacing environment portraying the character roles of the youths being the villain and the police being the hero, as suggested by Vladimir Propp, 'as it denotes the action of the character'[16].
Theory's
from this, its suggesting that teenage twitter users are mindless passive audience, as suggested by the hypodermic needle[13]
The media puts forward its hegemonic views that the public passively accepts (hypodermic syringe)[29]
‘Teenage Twitter users are not the sharpest, most culturally-aware knives in the drawer-- but we are also regurgitating news that you've probably already seen’[12] from this, its suggesting that teenage twitter users are mindless passive audience, as suggested by the hypodermic needle[13]
Anything the mass media states should be accepted by the public, reflecting the Marxist perspective where the ruling class stay on top and exploit those lower (the working class).
Also the lean back media plays a part, as the content they advertise and how they advertise can be looked at in two ways. Looking at Stuart Hall’s reception theory[10]
Ideology;
QUOTE 1; "British youths are 'the most unpleasant and violent in the world”[1]
Because of the media’s racial ideologies its created ‘power hierarchies’ to establish which race is more admirable.
Institutions
But then that is just a case of what the audience is interested in, and media institution’s goal is to get the most power and to get power they need popularity.
Genre
Or to convey a certain message e.g. all black people are inferior to white people or maybe just for comedy, it depends on what genre we are looking at.
Representation
Overall teenagers are represented in a negative way and have been labelled as deviant but ‘the notion of ‘youth’ is seen as a fairly recent invention’[28].
Audience
One of the media’s main purposes is to provide their audience with a good story or a new story. The media puts forward its hegemonic views that the public passively accepts (hypodermic syringe)[29]
The audience is so used to it and takes it in that it seems normal to them and when they go out into reality they take on those beliefs as their own.
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