1.4

Question 1

What is 1.4?

Answer 1

Describe media representation of crime

Question 2

What are some ways media represents crime?

Answer 2

Newspapers, television, film, games, social media, and music.

Question 3

Describe newspaper

Answer 3

Tabloid, broadsheet, and local
Comical and serious
The Sun + The Mirror are comical
The Daily News is serious
Focuses on violent and sexual cases

Question 4

Describe television

Answer 4

Factual and fictional
Emphasis on violent crimes
Can be from any viewpoint
Fact - Dahmer and Ted Bundy
Fictional - Sherlock and The wire

Question 5

Describe film

Answer 5

Factual and Fictional
Often exaggerated
Drugs,sex, and violence are often exaggerated
All viewpoints covered
American Murder and Joker

Question 6

Describe games

Answer 6

Purely fictional
Typically involve violent crime or homicide
From victim,offender, and police perspective.
Among us, Red dead redemption, and Fortnite

Question 7

Describe Social media

Answer 7

Factual and fictional
Provides insight, but also twists the truth
Example would be the media attention brought together after George Floyds murder.
All viewpoints

Question 8

Describe music

Answer 8

All viewpoints apart from police
Factual and fictional
In several genres
Example - Roxanne by the police, Stan by eminem