How are students and women represented?
The students creating the riot over tuition fees have been represented in the article from The Daily Mail in a very negative way. The headline for the article as quotes “Rage of the girl rioters: Britain’s students take to the streets again – and this time women are leading the charge” from the media have begun by stating it was girls who were causing the main chaos of the riot which you wouldn’t normally expect which is rather stereotypical as you would expect boys to begun a riot such as this one. Then the quote goes into mentioning the fact that women are leading the charge which seems the media are making it into a moral panic as the word charge to me relates to a war of chaos and devastation. This example is perfect because it is exactly the way how Stanley Cohen defined what a moral panic was and how it begun and escalated and how the media and I quote “intends on fashioning these episodes, stylising them, amplifying the nature of effects and turning them into a national issue when the matter could have been kept contained and under control” the few key words in this example are how woman are being negatively viewed and represented and how the whole ordeal was blown out of proportion.
My next example from the article is “at least 29 protesters were arrested for theft, violent disorder, and criminal damage” from this quote students have been represented as causing nothing but trouble for society and police as said at least 29 were arrested which is only an estimate so as you know it is more likely to be more. It has been made out to be an epidemic of violence and trouble for society and police. This riot is all over the rise in tuition fees for students relating to the change in politics which relates to the theory of cultural hegemony from Gramsci in 1930 which is the philosophic and sociological concept in the various social classes who have more authority over another person. Here we can see that as the tuition fees are rising and students would have ton pay more we can see they wouldn’t be in such a higher class therefore they are unlikely to afford the changes in fees so they have fought back and no have more authority over the police in the riot but it is the government who have overall authority as they have made the final decision to change prices.
My final example from the article is “ a female police officer suffered a broken hand and another officer had to be dragged out from a cordon with leg injuries when violence flared” from this quote students have been represented and seen as from the point of view from society as they have no limits the fact that they went to such lows to harm a female officer, the key word being female the media have wrote to turn this ordeal into a moral panic in society, which leads me to a theory stated by Eldrige 1997 who said “media reproduce the definitions of the powerful. We can see from this final example from The Daily Mail article that the media change the definitions from what they decide to write and it is keywords that I have mentioned in this article that change the definitions and thoughts of e.g. students and how they are seen and represented in media from their actions.
The students creating the riot over tuition fees have been represented in the article from The Daily Mail in a very negative way. The headline for the article as quotes “Rage of the girl rioters: Britain’s students take to the streets again – and this time women are leading the charge” from the media have begun by stating it was girls who were causing the main chaos of the riot which you wouldn’t normally expect which is rather stereotypical as you would expect boys to begun a riot such as this one. Then the quote goes into mentioning the fact that women are leading the charge which seems the media are making it into a moral panic as the word charge to me relates to a war of chaos and devastation. This example is perfect because it is exactly the way how Stanley Cohen defined what a moral panic was and how it begun and escalated and how the media and I quote “intends on fashioning these episodes, stylising them, amplifying the nature of effects and turning them into a national issue when the matter could have been kept contained and under control” the few key words in this example are how woman are being negatively viewed and represented and how the whole ordeal was blown out of proportion.
My next example from the article is “at least 29 protesters were arrested for theft, violent disorder, and criminal damage” from this quote students have been represented as causing nothing but trouble for society and police as said at least 29 were arrested which is only an estimate so as you know it is more likely to be more. It has been made out to be an epidemic of violence and trouble for society and police. This riot is all over the rise in tuition fees for students relating to the change in politics which relates to the theory of cultural hegemony from Gramsci in 1930 which is the philosophic and sociological concept in the various social classes who have more authority over another person. Here we can see that as the tuition fees are rising and students would have ton pay more we can see they wouldn’t be in such a higher class therefore they are unlikely to afford the changes in fees so they have fought back and no have more authority over the police in the riot but it is the government who have overall authority as they have made the final decision to change prices.
My final example from the article is “ a female police officer suffered a broken hand and another officer had to be dragged out from a cordon with leg injuries when violence flared” from this quote students have been represented and seen as from the point of view from society as they have no limits the fact that they went to such lows to harm a female officer, the key word being female the media have wrote to turn this ordeal into a moral panic in society, which leads me to a theory stated by Eldrige 1997 who said “media reproduce the definitions of the powerful. We can see from this final example from The Daily Mail article that the media change the definitions from what they decide to write and it is keywords that I have mentioned in this article that change the definitions and thoughts of e.g. students and how they are seen and represented in media from their actions.
Excellent work Becky and well expressed. You've identified all of the key issues here and managed to include all three theorists. Well done!
ReplyDeleteWhat opportunities were there for self-representation and does that reduce the stereotyping featured in the article? What is your personal opinion?
Within the article were there any opportunities for self - representation, so that there was a reduce in the stereotyping featured in the article.
ReplyDeleteMy personal opnion of the article I personally feel the media have amplified this whole situation and have dramatised it particularly segregating women who are supposedly the leaders of this prostest making them the whole cause of this which I feel isnt particularly true - it is all students of mixed ages and not just female neither taking part.