MEDIA- age (section B) Flashcards
Traditional- childhood-heintz- knowles
content analysis of children’s tv programmes to see how children are portrayed, she found: children are motivated t by peer relationships and romance and least by school and religious issues, they hardly grapple with important issues, majority of characters engage in antisocial behaviour that result in positive outcomes, minority ethnic groups are underrepresented. Girls twice as likely to show affection and boys more likely to use physical aggression
Traditional-youth-Griffin
Youth is portrayed in the media in 3 ways: deviant (drugs, partying, violent) e.go skins, top boy , dysfunctional(family and relationship issues) e.g. sex education go to Otis for advice and suffering a deficit (mental health problems) 13reasons why
Traditional-youth-Wayne
found that out of 286 stories in which young people were the focus, 28% focused on celebrities. This mirrored the role that young people play in commercial culture. 82% of stories focused on young people being perpetrators or victims of crime. This representation ignores how young people are affected by abuse, health, unemployment and housing and news didn’t ask them for interviews
Traditional-youth-women in journalism
study called hoodies or alter boys and looked at how teenage boys were presented in newspapers. Negative language is used “thugs, lout, brutes” and there are more stories about teen and crime than any other topic. Few stories showed the, in a good light (24%) reality tv portrays them as most fairly and teens are wary of other teens due to negative portrayals in media
Traditional-youth- Kelly
language used by journalists about young people in contact with the law and their are 3 major types of representation: dangerous, in need of protection and immature
Traditional-youth- Cohen
1964 at Clapton on sea beach at Brighton. Mods and rockers two different motorbike groups who were both there at Easter bank holiday. There was a clash between the 2 which was exaggerated by the media as they were having a slow news day with newspaper titles like ‘terror beach’, ‘riot police fly to seaside’ when only £200 of damage was done. Labelled as folk devils and presented as threats by the media and made a target by local authorities. Drama d publication led to people identifying as one or the other and deviancy amplification
Changing- childhood-postman
idea of childhood is disappearing as children interact with media. Children are sexualised in the media and created a world where adults and children share the same music, sport, language and films and clothing e.g girls in high heels and men in trainers. Internet also leads to children being exposed to adult content earlier like sex and violence
Changing-youth-osgerby
Stiffened changes in media representations of youth 197s-200s and found recurring theme of youth as trouble. Changes in media representations of youth reflect wider cultural developments and mirror the spirit of the times English fighting for change portrayed as deviant. Media portrayed youths positively in 50s in post war mood of hope and prosperity but in 70s and 80s associated with violence and norm breaking
Traditional-elderly-age concern
Majority of media representations of elderly are a mixture of invisibility and stereotyping.identified 3 main stereotypes of the elderly-disproportionately shown as : a burden, mentally challenged and grumpy
Traditional-elderly-landis
Supports age concern, identified a number of stereotypes and they are depicted as one dimensional like grumpy old man, feisty women, depressed or lonely, wise, busybody, mentally deficient, sickly, having second childhood E.g dumbledore, Carl from up, Catherine rated character
Traditional-elderly-cuddly and Fiske
In the us, 1.5% of characters in us tv programme are elderly. Have minor roles and are a form of comedy. Usually depicted mental, physical and sexual capacities as ineffective
Traditional-elderly-Milner et al
Media do not portray a balanced view of ageing. To do this they need to present challenges of getting older alongside positives such as active ageing
Traditional- elderly- carrigan and szmigin
although older consumers have grown in number and affluence, they are less likely to be portrayed in adverts. They are shown in negative images of being smelly and incontinent
Changing-elderly-lee et al
old people are underrepresented in adverts (in only 15%) but over 90% of these were positive portraying elderly as ‘golden ages’ enjoying healthy active lifestyles. There are gender differences as older men are more visible on the media likely to be associated with high status and work while women associated with family and poverty
Changing-elderly-Sontag
double standard of aging where men’s re allowed to age but women aren’t as they are required to appear youthful in the media e.g. phill and holly
