Looking at two types of Media, describe the ways in which a particular group of people are collectively represented or provided for, using specific examples to support your response.

Looking at two types of Media, describe the ways in which a particular group of people are collectively represented or provided for, using specific examples to support your response.

We become bombarded with messages and become a subject rather than an individual as soon as we engage them, they control us.
From this it could be said that the mass media use messages to influence peoples thoughts and opinions to portray people in a specific way. this could be done though both video and text.

in relation to text youth are portayed by the mass media most commonly in the form of newspapers and reports on youth activity. unfortunatly due to the negative steriotype cast around youth created by the negative posts about youth this has seemingly affected the general population to come under the opinion that as a collective group youths are seen as rude, voilent yobs with little respect for themselves or others.
an example of the mass emdia using the textial infomatio(both through newspapers and broadsheets)would be during the london riots in 2011 where youths were instantly given a negative portayal and seemingly being branded as the main cause of the chaos. this was done mainly throught headlines instantly accusing youth of the acts commited.
an example of this being the sun printing on the 7th august 2011 staing the date after reeves corner was burnt down "welcome to the youth of today". this title herby instantly accusing youth of the terriible acts that befell london during the riots. This however was not the case as it has now been confirmed that george thompson was responsible for the fire on reemes corner and he was a 34 year old man (clearly not a youth). this proving that it was the medias aim to attract attention to make youth be the target for blame during the london riots.
another factor in the negative portrayal of youth during the riots was the organization and wide spread way information was exchanged due to phone applications and most noticeably blackberry messenger and twitter. with the excuse that youths are the ones primarily using the applications it was theorized that the reason the riots were so terrible in comparison to the Brixton riots was the use of information spread and thus the actions of youth.

this seemingly allowing the media to encode their own messages and ideas to the general public in order to group youth as a whole negative stereotype is backed up by Stuart halls theory that the media are not the ones that voice information but instead they are the ones who create information in the image they see fit.

Appart form newspapers, video and film releases have also grouped youth together in a negative light to portray them as negative stereotypes, this being shown through both kidulthood and adulthood portraying the current state and representation of youth during the times they were filmed and made to be that of a negative stereotype with the main concerns of youths seen as sex, drugs and gang violence. this instantly branding youth as bad and rebellious people the entire way throughout the films and is also backed up with the film shank set in the near future where in a semi-apocalyptic London in the year 2015 youth violence has increased further to senseless killings been seen and shrugged off as nothing theorizing that the negative view of youth will continue and not lessen anytime soon.
these films allow a viewer to make a general observation of youth as a collective in a negative manor and due to the theory of moral panic they believe that the negative events of the films are somehow more likely to happen to them and thus tend to shun the general youth on a whole and in a sense out-casting them which in turn is making them into a greater disliked social group then before.

In conclusion it seems that youth are seemingly branded as a overall negative group through the use of the mass media and with previous views of youth seemingly becoming negative examples from web 2.0, tabloids and films have followed suit in agreeing to the message created by the general media that youths are dangerous, violent yobs who do not have a care for people or their society even thought that is only a small number of youth and the media is seemingly only producing reports on cases they feel can add to their seemingly protest against the general youth within the country.