Works Cited
Downing, John, and Charles Husband. Representing
race: racisms, ethnicities and media. London: SAGE, 2005. Print.
Page 9: “The mass media provide
an organizational framework within which individuals interact in the context of
set roles and established power hierarchies.”
Because
of the media’s racial ideologies its created “power hierarchies” to establish
which race is more admirable. ‘Individuals interact’ with the roles, so they’ve
acknowledged the set roles and take them on without any difficulty. This proves
how powerful the mass media are where it is able to enforce their idea of who’s
at the top of the hierarchy and who’s placed at the bottom reinforcing the
established roles of different types of people. The media has put this ideology
through to ensure that they stay on top, it shows the ones who have the most
power and should be in fear. Whatever the media says people should except
similar to a Marxist perspective where the ruling class stay on top and exploit
those lower (the working class).
Malik, Sarita. Representing black Britain: black
and Asian images on television. London: SAGE, 2001. Print.
Page 10: “Radicalized difference
is a key feature of British race relations and has been aptly borne”
The British
media are able to show racial differences now because of how often the typical
stereotypes have been shown over a long period of time, whether it’d be in a
soap, comedy, films, the news etc. 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. This is an example of cultivation theory where the
effects of TV over a long period of time affect people’s belief in reality. Any
media program would use stereotypes for different reason like for example, so
it’s easy for the audience to identify and feel comfortable with (uses and
gratification). 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’re
looking at.
Mallan, Kerry,
and Sharyn Pearce. Youth cultures: texts, images, and identities.
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. Print.
Page 6: “Theoretical stories are situated within the
writers’ own personal predilections and disciplinary traditions”
Perspectives
provide us in ways to think about issues that may be contradicting, like for
example teenagers and these principles or ideas on teenagers cannot be 100%
accurate because emotions, morals and beliefs get in the way and because each
person holds different views, theories cant scientifically be proven true.
Positivists believe that none of these values should ever get in the way when
obtaining data to create a scientific theory; but this way of thinking is often
criticised by interpretivist because no matter what, human’s feelings will get
in the way.
Marsh, Ian, and Gaynor Melville. Crime, justice and
the media. London: Routledge, 2009. Print.
Page 1: “Dorfman
(2001) found that over three-quarters (76%) of the public said they formed
their opinions about crime from what they see or read in the news, more than
three times the number of those who said they got their primary information on
crime from personal experience (22%).”
An amazing bit of
statistics that show just how much the media influences the public’s views.
Dorfman (2001) carried out research finding that over three quarters of people
get their opinions from the news this puts forward the idea of hegemony
suggested by Karl Marx but then furthered by Gramsci. Gramsci understood that
the media teaches people to do things voluntarily to upkeep supremacy in
authority and in this context the media ‘teaches’ the dominant view on crime,
which people then cooperate with by also taking on this view hence proving
Dorman’s study. But then it isn’t clear if the view on crime is specifically
targeted at young people or at others and the youth today are represented
positively. As mentioned in Bill Osgerby’s ‘Youth Media’ “Positive media
representation of youth did not disappear, but there was a palpable resurgence
of more negative coverage” so the view on crime that some people take from the
media could be positive for young teens.
Osgerby, Bill. Youth media. London: Routledge,
2004. Print.
Page 1: “They are shopping for themselves, spending
for all they are worth… Some of us may wonder how they get the energy, other
how do they get the money.”
Because of the media stereotyping the readers would already
know the answer to which the author, Bill Osgerby is implying because of the
stereotypes given to the youth. “Spending for all they’re worth” so teens don’t
think ahead about their future, only interested in immediate gratification. For
that reason this suggests they spend without thinking and act irrational. Also
indicating how immature and irresponsible they can be by living and spending
for today, living fatalistically. Since the media has an impact on the public
minds and influences our view, the institution can manipulate and gate-keep the
information given to us “Positive media representation of youth did not
disappear, but there was a palpable resurgence of more negative coverage” (Youth Media By Bill Osgerby). The media
over- represents the negative stories so that it over shadows any positive
coverage, creating a corrupt, damaged generation.
Paludi, Michele Antoinette. The psychology of teen
violence and victimization. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2011. Print.
"Teenage
victims are not often afforded the same resources as adult… and are
not tailored to the unique psychology of teens, who are often marginalized in
our society.”
The mind of a teen is very different to the mind of an
adult, for example adults can be more mature about decisions made and also can
resolve things better, so to have resources for abuse only tailored to adult
victims is just strengthening that gap between teenagers and adults.
Furthermore the abuse to teenagers isn’t emphasized as much as teenagers
abusing others to reinforce that negative stereotype, the media stories go
through a gatekeeper who determines what’s shown and what’s kept from the
public eye. So the image the media institutions are trying to portray can be an
example of the ‘Hypodermic needle theory’ which is the idea of the media
injecting messages straight into the ‘passive audience’ who then instantly gets
influenced and cannot break away.
Regoli, Robert M., and John D. Hewitt. Delinquency
in society. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997. Print.
Page 22: “In the public’s mind, a few juveniles
hanging out together on a street corner elicits the image of delinquent gang.
While these juveniles may not belong to any formal gang.”
The way the media demonises the youth has left an imprint on
today’s society as being ill-mannered, violent and being associated with drugs,
sex and gangs. Hoodies, joggers, baseball caps, oversized shirts are a part or
the iconography of the stereotyped teens. The media reports certainly do
amplify stories to do with the youth like in recent events such as the protests
and riots; it was all that was shown on all news channels. Where’s the success
of teenagers? Their academic success? Achievements? So this quote points out
that even though the group of young teens are hanging out on the street corner
doesn’t mean they’re a part of a juvenile group looking for trouble, they could
just be there for social reasons. But because of the stereotypes that they have
been labelled and it is the appearance that decides a person’s view, the group
is automatically feared which is unfair on their part, everyone knows the
saying; don’t judge a book by its cover so why does today’s society still carry
on doing it? The media plays a huge role on reinforcing these qualities in the
youth creating what Stanley Cohen (1987) calls moral panic; a sudden increase
in public perception of the possible threat to societal values and interests
because of exposure to media texts. So that the general public fear young
adults who probably have no violent motives due to the media amplifying the
misconception of folk devils (deviant outsiders). Nevertheless there is a
corrupt subculture that rejects society’s norms and value that overshadows the
success of adolescents, their counter-stereotype of being hard working and
well-mannered and that they focus on differed gratification.
Shaw, Sandra M. I.. Parents, children, young people
and the state. Maidenhead, England: Open University Press, 2010. Print.
Page 91: “Young people could be judged on ‘what they
might do’ rather than what they actually do”
Because of the picture
the media has painted for teenagers, the audience are shown this constant
message that all teenagers are going to be deviant; it’s just a matter of when.
This approach to young people is unfair to the ones being accused and to
others. For innocent teenagers who behave and have no immoral motivations are
automatically being feared on the basis of what their stereotype might do or say.
Because of these people being feared and are anticipated to do bad might just
fulfil this prophecy and commit crime anyway because its expected from them.
Other people who are older than them or fear them would be influenced because
of the label of youths and would change their everyday lives; for instance not
going down a certain road because there are a group of teens or not going
inside a shop because a group of youths went in. These groups of teenagers may
not have the intention to cause any disruptions and yet people will still go
out their way just not to encounter them. But on the other hand if we judged
everyone on what they ‘might do’ rather than what they actually do then where
would we all stand? In fear of everyone.
Folk
Devils and Moral Panics: 30th Anniversary Edition by Stanley Cohen 1980 page
26.
“What
had happened was inevitably going to happen again”
With
the constant coverage of the story, the media made it look like that these
sorts of events were going to reoccur again because of the statement “what had
happened was inevitably going to happen again” but this was only just an
assumption however because the media kept on putting emphasis on the reports and
raising the question of ‘what should be done next time?’ this assured the
audience that this disaster would happen again. So by combining that message
along with the attention of the violence shown to the public would have resulted
in the audience panicking where delinquents would “strike next”.
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