Age representations in the media
- Created by: jesskeayy
- Created on: 13-05-17 20:39
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- Age in the media
- CHILDRENS EXPRESS
- Content analysis of newspapers
- Represented children as: victims of crimes, cute, little devils, brilliant, brave little angels, accessories and as modern
- This is bad: don't represent a child's view of the world
- Children not portrayed as dealing with societal issues like RACISM AND CHILD ABUSE
- Lack of portrayal suggests that issues are not serious/ don't exist
- Shown as active consumers
- NEW RIGHT- PESTER POWER
- Content analysis of newspapers
- EVANS & CHANDLER
- Pester Power is creating problems for poorer parents who go into debt to provide for their children
- Youths portrayed as a social problem, immoral and construed as the folk devil
- WAYNE
- Analysed news stories of children- 82% of stories focussed on youths being perpetrators or victims of crime
- Only 1% of these focussed on youth opinions on the matter
- These stories deflect from issues like employment and mental health that youths face
- Analysed news stories of children- 82% of stories focussed on youths being perpetrators or victims of crime
- WAYNE
- Elderly are invisible
- AGE CONCERN
- Under- represented in the media
- Most representations are of males, even though females represent a larger proportion of the elderly population
- AGE CONCERN
- CHILDRENS EXPRESS
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