Exam

- How do contemporary media represent different collective groups in different ways?

• main focus of essay
• diverse representations including fiction (films), non fiction (newspapers, news) and self representation (youtube, facebook etc.)
• talk about at least 2 media
• talk about similarities and differences between modern and past media
• Structure - into (quote, rewrite in own words, link to issues of representation and media, state your focus.. social groups and text) // historical example // contemp examples // connect examples together // conclusion (return to start, prediction for future).
• referencing to film dates, theorists and dates
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Stereotypes

• created by society and are part of a cultures ideology
• they categorize people into groups whose members all share the same/ similar characteristics, mainly negative ones
• stereotypes are categorical & general suggester the traits apply to all members
• they are simplistic

Propaganda - a form of communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position 

British Youth

• yobs
• gangs
• violence
• junkies
• reckless
• asbos
• binge drinkers
• chavs
• hoodies

Representing Youth

IPSOS MORI Survey 2005:

• 40% of articles on violence, crime, anti-social behaviour 
• 71% are negative

Brunel Uni 2007:

• TV News: violent crime or celebrities; young people are only 1% of sources

Women in Journalism 2008:

• 72% of articles were negative, 3.4% positive
• 75% about crime, drugs, police
• Boys: yobs, thugs, sick, feral, hoodies, louts, scum (words used to describe)
• Only positive stories are about boys who died young

Case Study 

• What roll did new media technologies, particularly networking sites play in the london riots?
• Do media cause riots or revolutions?#

Broken Britain

• How can you link cultural hegemony to this article?

From the article it gives the impression that the middle class dominates the rest of society and makes society believe that lower class are associated with bad behaviour.