Watch the BBC report by CLICKING HERE
One way in which the collective identity of youths is affected in a negative manner is through the images used within the news and the media for example various pictures within the reports of hood teens committing various crimes and looting, plenty of youth with very little mention or showing of anyone that was a bit older and committing the same crime this shows the media as trying to show youth in a very negative manner by highlighting them as the source of the danger and crime.
another way in which the collective identity of youths is negatively affected is through the language used in the reports and interviews. For example only ever highlighting youth within the news reports and giving warnings to parents for example 'keep them in tonight' a quote used by an officer to warn parents to keep children in in the evening. Also quotes like 'feral rats' used to describe the youth by the media doing this they are highlighting to viewers that the youth are the case when in fact 74% of those arrested were in fact adults.
one other way is through the people that they interviewed for the news being predominately adults or of an older generation as well as being mostly white apart from one man at the start who claims we should introduce the army and throughout these interviews the younger generation are blamed heavily for the state of the riots such as the quote 'feral rats' which again was used by one of the people being interviewed to give her opinion on the youths. by doing this the youths are again being shown as danger and the main problem, so this therefore negatively affects their collective identity.
No comments:
Post a Comment