Singnifcane of Role of Media

Using materials from Item C and elsewhere, assess the trance that the mass media behave junior hatful as a riddle theme? (18 Marks) early days are frequently portrayed as a paradox group in society, and as a major source of anti amicable behaviour, particularly one-year-old working class, and especi ally African Caribbean, males. The Mass Media often generate this excitement by creating stereotypes of offspring peck as troublemakers, layabouts and vandals, and by exaggerating the occasional deviant behaviour by a few young mint out of the proportion to its veridical significance in society.Media strongly affects youth culture. The media executives are quick to defend their role in youth violence and bullying while selling millions of dollars in ads focused on youth. TV producers, network executives, motion picture companies and others in the media deny every impact of their programs on the attitudes and actions of youth. This essay using materials from Item C asses the view the mass media demonstrate young people as a problem group. Some Sociologist argues that the mass media represent young people as a problem group.This has been argued by Cohen. He argues that young people are comparatively powerless and an easily identifiable group to blame for societys problems and therefore the mass media are able to represent young people as a problem group. In his study he arrange that African Caribbean males are often used as scapegoats by the media to do a sense of unity through the creation of whitened-living panic. Where they generated moral panics based on stereotypes means that all young people from a specific group get labelled as troublemakers and an antisocial problem group.A recent event that backs up Cohen study is the protest of the Rising in tuition fees to ? 9000, where young people were see a bad and reservation the situation even worse by causing trouble. Thus, showing that the media represent young people as a problem group. Howe ver, Signorellis (1989) gist analysis of over 14,000 American television characters and found that not completely young characters were represent as bad but also old characters were also represented as troublemakers. Which therefore show that the media equally represent different age groups as a problem.However, Jewkes (2004) points out that young people are the vernacular directs of moral panics, their behaves regarded as a barometer to test the usual target of moral panics, Young people are the usual target of moral panics, their behaviour is regarded as a barometer to test the health or sickness of as society Further much, Pearson (1983) argues that contemporary images usually categorise young people as a problem. He argued that during the golden age media had represented young people with low rates of crime and the youth had value the police.Pearson believes that the media are in a permanent panic about some(prenominal) manifestation of youth as a problem is current the Hooligans of overnice Times, the Teds of the 1950s or the Travellers of today. A recent event that backs up Pearsons hypothesis is the London Summer 2010 Riots where young people were represented in the media as trouble makers and cause of the whole disturbance, although after research had been conducted more adults were found to be looting and rioting than young people.As well as, the media did not show much of the Young people gathering together to clean the streets of London. Therefore this shows that the media represents young people as problem groups. However Pearson theory has been criticised In addition, Wayne et al. (2008) had conducted a content analysis of 2130 news items across all the main television channels during May 2006. They found that young people were mainly represented as a violent threat to society. They found that it was very rare for news items to feature a young persons perspective or opinion.They note that the media only delivers a linear picture of you th, one that encourages fear and condemnation rather than understanding. Moreover, they argue that it distracts from the real problems that young people face in the modern world such as homelessness, not being able to get onto the housing ladder, unemployment or mental health and that these might be caused by societys, or the governments, failure to take the problems of youth seriously. Thus, showing the media represent young people as a problem group. Conclusion