TASK 4: UP-TO-THE-MINUTE ADDITIONAL WEB RESEARCH

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2184359/London-riots-year-What-needs-change--.html

The London riots one year on: What still needs to change if we are avoid a repeat of last year

Of course we need to offer genuine hope and the tangible belief in a brighter future to young people across this country

It is the middle-class, left-wing academics who have subsequently projected onto the young people

What needs to change? Firstly, I think our attitude to youth

Danger of listening far too much to young people.

Young people to be encouraged to get rid of the hoodies and the baggy jeans hanging down their bums!

We need to show young people that it’s cool to be clever and to love books and reading, not just cool to be a rapper or a footballer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8630533/Riots-the-underclass-lashes-out.html

London riots: the underclass lashes out

This was a riot waiting for an excuse.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/08/london-riots-escalate-police-battle

London riots escalate as police battle for control

At Clapham junction, looters – some as young as 14 – moved from shop to shop laughing as they smashed shop windows and clearing shelves of stock, unimpeded by over-burdened police

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3742133/Woman-leaps-from-block-of-flats-into-the-arms-of-cops-in-third-night-of-London-rioting.html

Descent into hell as London burns

In the centre of PECKHAM a 100-strong mob cheered as an independent clothes shop was turned into an inferno

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20113749

Riots response led to more gang violence, says CSJ

It highlights a marked increase in the number of girl gang members and a rise in sexual violence within gangs

http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/mmagpast/MM38_Politics_Riots2011.html

There’s a riot going on
MediaMagazine 38, December 2011, Politics Special, Youth, Summer 2011, media, Twitter, social media

The media talked up the disturbances into a bigger ‘moral panic’

But of course there have been riots and revolutions long before the electronic media came along.

http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/mmagpast/mm23_teen_movie.html

Genre – the Teen movie
Rob McInnes, MediaMagazine 23, February 2008, New online September 2008, Print special, Representation, Youth culture, Genre

Representations of teenagers had shifted over thirty years (in terms of their economic, cultural and social status)

http://www.itv.com/news/2012-03-28/gang-who-shot-5-year-old-thusha-jailed-for-drug-dealing-1/

Gang who shot 5-year-old Thusha jailed for drug dealing

given how prevalent these groups are on Facebook and YouTube the argument that naming them in traditional media glamourises them seems ever more dubious

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/lengthen-school-day-to-help-latchkey-kids-charity-urges-1915003.html?origin=internalSearch

Lengthen school day to help latchkey kids, charity urges

those from deprived backgrounds or at risk of delinquency