Press/Print representations

Teen trouble 2007

The public believe that a high percentage of crime is due to teenagers
When really its only 12% of crime thats commited by teenagers
News of the world uses negative stories about teenagers rather than postive because negative sells better
people forget youths are equally part of the community/society
Girl gangs are worse in Swindon
Dispersal orders in operation
Mosquito's placed outside shops to keep youths away
4.2 million CCTV camera's
6 times more likely to die from falling down a flight of staires than in a knife attack


Cultivation theory, the amount of proliferation of press coverage will believe that is whats happening in real life, which in turn creates moral panic, ending up in everyone being scared of youths. Hyperdemic needle theory, were injected by the media and we believe everything we read against youths. Hyperdemic needle theory is disputed though, but because of moral panic, it can still be argued. The more criminality we see on the media, the more desensitised we become by it.


Reading the Riot Acts

IPSOS MORI survey 2005: 40% of articles focus on violence, crime, anti-social behaviour; 71% are negative

Brunel Univerisity 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
Only positive stories about the boys that who died young

What role did new media technologies, partically social networking sites play in the london riots?

I think that the social working sites and other technology made the riots bigger, and invited more people, but it didnt start the riots, but it helped continue them and make them much bigger

Do media cause riots or reveloutions?

How can you link cultural hegemony to this article?

You can link cultural hegemony to this article because of the way, there MP's are stating that they are scared to send their children to a state school, meaning that they are filled with lower class children who their middle class children shouldnt mix with. Allowing Cultural Hegemony to be applied here, because of the clear divide between classes.

How does the article suggest moral panic is being caused?

That middle class people have heard a few bad stories that have happened in state schools, causing them to think every child and every state school is bad and is filled with crime and their children wouldnt be safe there. So there is general moral panic as they think its all like that what they have heard.

Can you link in McRobbies Symbolic Violence Theory? How?

You can link McRobbies Symbolic Violence Theory in to this article because it talks about lower class children and state schools, which links it with the symbolic violence we have seen on TV in lower state schools such as 'Waterloo Road' which creates symbolic violence, linking it to this article.

How far do you agree with this article that governments decisions and policies are continuing to create a divide between the middle and working class? Discuss

I believe strongly that the goverment is creating a huge divide between the middle and working class, unfairly diving them, and labelling the social class and 'thugs' as they all commit crime, when it is completley untrue.

Between 6 and 10 August 2011, several London boroughs and districts of cities and towns across England suffered widespread rioting, looting and arson.