Mock exam cover lesson for 27th March 2014

As was the case at AS, your will be awarded marks for the following areas:
Explanation/analysis/argument (__/20)
Use of examples/evidence (___/20)
Use of terminology (___/10)

Grade boundaries for the whole exam are the same as last year:

80+ = A

70-79 = B

60-69 = C

50-59 = D

40-49 = E

0-39 = U

 

Therefore for the collective identity question:

40+ = A

35-39 = B

30-35 =C

25-29 =D

20-25 =E

0-19 =U

 

Mock exam question:

 

Analyse the ways in which the media represent one group of people you have studied. [50]

 

 

 

1960s newspaper articles

1960: Evening Argus (1964) headline; “Battle of Briton” key quotes; “Two stabbed in Margate flare up” “50 arrested” “Scores of youths have been given prison sentences following a Whitsun weekend of violent clashes.”

BBC (1964) “Mods and Rockers Jailed After Seaside riot.”

‘Tens of thousands of people marked the end of the Aldermaston "ban the bomb" march this afternoon with a rally that built up to a tremendous climax this Easter weekend in London.’ 18^th april 1960

‘Paul McCartney has married Linda Eastman in a civil ceremony in London.

Hundreds of people gathered outside the Marylebone Register Office to catch a glimpse of the couple as they arrived with Miss Eastman's six-year-old daughter, Heather, from a previous marriage.’ 12^th march 1969.

2010 newspaper articles

New Media

As Bentley (1997) stated; “New media has changed the relationship between producers and audiences…it is no longer useful to refer to these terms as anyone can be a producer and reach a mass audience.”

Prior to the internet/new media youth did not have a platform to represent themselves, however the portrayal of youth by youth has done little to dispel the theories of Hall, Osgerby and Hebdige. Classic examples include:

 Facebook being use to ‘advertise’ ‘Skins’ style house parties that quickly get out of hand…

Telegraph (September 2012) Martin Evans said; “the well behaved teenage gather descended in chaos as a large number of uninvited guests turned up”

Other examples of negative portrayal of youth include:

Cyber bulling:

BBC (2012) a young teacher said; “Abuse by students of Twitter and Facebook left her physically ill and on medication.”

Telegraph (May 2012); “Internet bullies impersonate dead teenager and Facebooked a message to grieving mother.”

Daily Mail (Sept 2011); “Internet troll who posted vile abuse on Facebook memorial sites dedicated to dead children was jailed yesterday.”

Cyber fraud – making up fake people on dating/Facebook to psychologically damage others;

In the UK the Mirror online (2011) reported; “cyber bullies created boyfriend then killed him…bullies arrested.”

However, in the USA the outcome of a similar case was not as positive…

Good Morning America (2007) revealed the story of a mother of a former friend of a 13-year-girl created a ficticious male profile in order to gain the trust of the girl in order to learn what she was saying about her daughter. They became friends then the ‘guy’ sent cruel messages “slut” “fat” the stress cause the girl to hang herself.

Youths posting inappropriate images/comments that lead to loss of jobs:

Daily Mail (Feb 2009) Andrew Levy; “Teenage office worker sacked for moaning on Facebook about her ‘total boring job’”

Online suicide

Defamatory attacks on public figures using Twitter (E.g. Tom Daley rant – youth being vile to youth), Mail Online (July 2012) “17-year-old arrested in Weymouth after malicious Tweets were sent to the Olympic diver Tom Daley.” User Rilyy69 said; “You have let your dad down I hope you know that.” After receiving a taste of his own medicine Rilyy69 Tweeted an apology to Daley; “I’m sorry mate I just wanted you to win because it is the Olympics. I’m sorry except my apology I don’t want to be hated.” On a positive Daley did not respond negatively – showing youth can represent themselves positively online – it is in fact older journalists who always highlight the negative BUT it cannot be deny from my own experience that youth are not proving the critics wrong because Facebook, Twitter and Tumbler are full of inappropriate posts that construct a negative image of youth.

Youth riot – David Cameron wanted to ban Facebook/MySpace/Twitter after online posts fueled the riots.

2000-2010: The Guardian (August 2011) Michel Fize speaking on the cause of the youth riots said the older generation are to blame for the breakdown in youth behavior; “Youth have been tricked and betrayed we tell them to get a qualification but the qualifications are worth nothing.”

Daily Mail (2011) Anthony Daniels stated; “British youths are the most unpleasant in the world.”

2000 newspaper articles.

The 2000s newspaper quotes

‘The latest victim, just 14, was set upon yards from his home on Thursday night and fatally stabbed in the throat by a baying mob of hooded thugs.’ Sun, March 30, 2008 the express.

‘Stephen’s Everton-mad son was on his way back from football practice in Croxteth Park, Liverpool, on August 22 last year when he was struck in the neck by a bullet from a revolver held by a hoodie on a BMX bike.’ Sun, March 30, 2008 the express.

‘Mr Barnes was given the Asbo along with other members of the Cherry Boyz gang that was gathering and abusing members of the public in the Greenwich and Bexley areas of London.’ 10 November 2008 bbc news

‘Figures show more than half of the stories about teenage boys in national and regional newspapers in the past year (4,374 out of 8,629) were about crime. The word most commonly used to describe them was "yobs" (591 times), followed by "thugs" (254 times), "sick" (119 times) and "feral" (96 times).’ Friday 13 March 2009 the independent

1970s punk newspaper articles

Punk

“Punk was/is a subculture best characterized as being part of youth rebellion, part artistic statement primarily manifested through music.” Roger Sabin ‘Punk Rock so what?’. Punk was the promotion of anarchy and anti-establishment which was most popular 1976-1979. It was primarily a movement through the youth of the time that attracted a lot of attention through the things that it did. This led to a documentary on punk in 1976 on the London Weekend Show this documentary shows regular people such as the presenter trying to understand this ‘latest cult’ but apparently failing to do so through quotes such as “the first thing you notice is punk rock fans look as devastating as the music sounds.” The idea of anarchy within the punk cult links to Hebdige’s theory that media representations of youth are either ‘fun or trouble’ as this clearly shows that the youth involved in punk are wanting to cause trouble in order to gain some kind of reaction.

Key quotes from media texts:

·       “The Mirror goes on tour with Britain’s most outrageous band” (Sunday Mirror 1978 Dick Grayson)

·       “Punk power of the Sex Pistols” (Sunday Mirror 1978 Dick Grayson)

·       One of the reporters called them ‘animals’ (Sunday 1978 Dick Grayson)

·       “Its back to jazz from now on, we can’t play here again…. Not after tonight” (Mark Perry Sniffin Glue 1976)

·       ‘We’re the only mag, who knows what’s happening’ (Telling rival magazines, newspapers that their information is incorrect and this is what truly happened) (Mark Perry Sniffin glue 1976)

·       ‘Their reason for existing is to perform noise with meaning for people to share and benefit from.’ (Siouxsie and the banshees interview NME magazine 1978)

·       ‘They could be the last rock group. The only rock group. They are not a rock group. They are 20^th-century performers’ (Siouxsie and the banshees interview NME magazine 1978)

·       ‘They wore swastikas. There were stiff armed salutes. ‘(Siouxsie and the banshees interview NME magazine 1978)

·       “I want to look like a protest, I want my head to look like a clenched fist” (Hair dye)

·       ‘Some people turn up to the hairdressers after having used domestic bleach in their hair. ‘(Hair dye)

·       “We’ve fuckin spent it, aint we?” “Down the boozer” (1976 Grundy interviewing the Sex Pistols transcript)

·       “Go on be outrageous” (Trying to make them be bad) (1976 Grundy interviewing the Sex Pistols transcript)