-‘the rioters were consistently and repeatedly identified as young people. These were the ‘feral youth’, the ‘hoodies’ and ‘yobs’ who apparently rampage uncontrolled in our cities, bent simply on destruction for its own sake.’http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/mmagpast/MM38_Politics_Riots2011.html - This links to my study as teenagers are typical of media portrayals, the representations of teenagers in the media are shown to be stereotyped negatively, and this can be shown by the way teenagers are called ‘Yobs’.
-‘Gang members used Blackberry smartphones designed as a communications tool for high-flying executives to organise the mayhem’ - http://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/mm/subscribers/downloads/archive_mm/mmagpast/MM38_Politics_Riots2011.html - shows the audience how new media and digital technology has been carried out to help with groups of people rioting together by the use of smartphones and how they are frequently changing by improving the technologies to be better and better.
-‘According to the report, "yobs" and "thugs" were the two most popular ways of describing teenage boys. Other descriptions included "sick", "feral", "monsters", "scum" and "evil".http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/43332 - Talks about how teenage boys think that the press demonise them and inform the viewers about how bad they are by portraying them in bad light
- Teen Runs Into Burning House And Saves 2-Year-Old Boy! - http://newsone.com/2051252/nelson-fonangwan-adam-southampton-hampshire/ - shows us the audience that not all teenagers are ‘mugs’ and ‘hoodlums’ but are in fact caring and help the community to save lives as this 16 years old boy saved a child.
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