Traditional Represenations Of Age

Question 1

What did Heintz - Knowles argue about childhood?

Answer 1

• children are motivated most by peer relationships and romance and least by school related and religious issues
• majority of characters engage in antisocial behaviours resulting in positive outcome
• children from minority ethnic groups are under represented
• representations contain stereotypes and programmes are based on adult perspective of children

Question 2

What is a media example for heintz-Knowles?

Answer 2

horrid Henry - antisocial behaviour, Icarly- predominantly white characters and motivated by peer and romantic relationships

Question 3

What did Griffin argue about youth?

Answer 3

• youth are presented as social problems in 3 ways
• deviant, dysfunctional and suffering a deficit

Question 4

What is a media example for griffin?

Answer 4

Top boy- deviant, gangs and crime

Question 5

What did Wayne argue about youth?

Answer 5

• found of the 286 stories in which youths were the main subject, 28% focused on young celebs such as footballers
• 82% of stories focused on youths as perpetrators or victims of crimes
• 90% of stories were violent crime
• ignores stories about how youths are affected by housing problems, education, health, unemployment, parental abuse and politics

Question 6

What did the organisation women in journalism argue?

Answer 6

• the study ‘hoodies or altar boys’ examined how teen boys were presented in traditional and local newspapers

Question 7

What did women in journalism find?

Answer 7

• negative language used to describe them
• more stories about teens and crime than any other
• few stories showed teen boys in good light
• 85% of teen boys said newspapers portray them in bad light but reality TV was seen to portray them most fairly
• teens weary of other teens

Question 8

What did Kelly argue about youths?

Answer 8

• conducted research on language used to describe youths who come into contact with law and found 3 major types of representation:
• dangerous
• need of protection
• immature

Question 9

What did Cohen ague about youths?

Answer 9

• study on folk devils and moral panics show how media depicted youths as dangerous and deviant
• mods and rockers

Question 10

What did Landis argue about the elderly?

Answer 10

• stereotypes in representation of older people
• depicted as one dimensional
• grumpy old man, mentally deficient, wisdom

Question 11

What is media example for Landis?

Answer 11

• grumpy old man- a man named Otto
• mentally deficient- Grandpa Abe
• wisdom- Dumbledore

Question 12

What did Cuddy and Fiske argue about the elderly?

Answer 12

• US TV programmes portrayed just 1.5% of their characters as elderly
• played minor, comedic roles
• depicted their mental, physical and sexual capacities as ineffective

Question 13

What is a media example for Cuddy and Fiske?

Answer 13

Grandpa Abe from the simpsons- comedic role

Question 14

What did Milner, van norman and Milner argue about elderly?

Answer 14

• media do not portray a balanced view of aging

Question 15

What did Carrigan and Szmigin argue about elderly?

Answer 15

• underrepresented in adverts and if they were, they’re depicted as smelly and incontinent