Media and Collective Identity
Starter Task -
I think that youths have represented negatively in the media because it provides society with a scapegoat. Cohen supports this idea and says that teenagers are seen as folk devils because in a result of a moral panic the public has someone to blame. The Brighton beach fights in the 1960's allowed the media to write stories on this age group. The media had a choice on how to present the events, the chose to present the teenagers negatively during the incident, therefore creating an image. Similarly the London Riots of 2011 provided the media with another incident to report. Since the Brighton beach fghts the negative image the press created has become a stereotype, therefore during this incident teenagers were used as a scapegoat.
Tessa Perkins - stereotypes
No stereotype can be created without some form of truth behind it to be based on
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