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My Critical Investigation: --

To What Extent Are Male Teenagers Negatively Stereotyped In The News Media.

http://www.freechild.org/Firestarter/contents/FS1001.htm

On this website, we can see an article written from a teenager's point of view, an 18 year old arguing that teenagers are indeed negatively stereotyped in the news media, and in most occasions are therefore overly judged in a bad way. These are also the types of things that then cause plenty of negative reactions from the public. The article on this ULR specifically links to my critical investigation as I am also investigating the stereotypes made by the media about teenagers.

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1224

This is another artice but a very old one, which reveals information linked to teenagers and the media, which specific reference to older years and currents years, describing how the past generation of teenager's behaviour has changed throughout the years.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/behind-the-stereotypes-the-shocking-truth-about-teenagers-421295.html

An article from The Independent newspaper posted in 2006, showing specific information about teenagers and stereotypes. There are discussions defending teenagers, and other discussions about the facts and stastics of crime commited by male teenagers.

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/special_initiatives/toolkit/stereotypes/youth_stereotypes_news.cfm

This specifically talks about the link between youths and the news media, not only showing information from the UK news media, but also discussing about media from other different countries such as Canada.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4268796.stm

This is an article from the BBC News posten on September 2005 which talks about how adolescents are being wrongly branded as moody and troublesome. At a certain extent, the writer of the article is indeed defending teenagers, as he/she also claims that the media is being too harsh on them.

Bibliography: Books.

My Critical Investigation: --
To What Extent Are Male Teenagers Negatively Stereotyped In The UK News Media.

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Burton, Graeme (2005): Media & Popular Culture. Coventry,UK: Dianna ONG.

Pg. 44

"Typical behaviour from the younger generation tends to build a threatning impact to the society. Statistics of crime rate increase throughout recent years in our society also influences the media to broadcast both negative and positive information."

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Kings, Chris Ed. (2000): Media Violence Alert. USA:Dream Catcher Press.

"There has been a great deal of public disscussions of the link between media violence and children's aggressive behaviour."

"Michael Carneal, the 14 year old killer had never fired a pistol in his life, and had fired a .22 rifle at camp site. He stole a .22 pistol from a neighbour, fired a few practise shots, and took it to school."

"Carneal fired 8 shots at a high shcool prayer group who was breaking up."

"Firing at milling, screaming, running group of kids, he hit 8 different kids with 8 shots, five of them head shots and other three upper torso."

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Gifford, Clive (2005): Gangs. London: Evans Brothers.

"Some people call any group of young adults a gang."

"Gangs are often reported in the media as a modern issue, the number of teenage members of gangs has increased in many countries in the past 20 years."

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Stewart, Colin (2001): Media & Meaning. London: British Film Institute.

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"Gradually, an adult audience may sometimes be pressurised and surprisingly warned about a change in the society. The media works both ways, into broadcasting both good and bad news preventing harsh and negative stereotypes, whilst keeping their audience calm."

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Clive, Mathew (2002): Society & Cultures. Canada: B.R Friels.

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"Links between violent teenagers and the media has always brought up public debates."

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Dutton, Brian (2000): Media Studies-An Introduction. England: First Published 1989.

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"Information passed on from person to person about incidents happening within a local area are sometimes slightly changed, therefore in many occasions, the press is accused for feeding false reports."

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Wallis, Jeremy (2000): The Media. Great Britain: Heinemann Library.

"On daily basis, chaos and disturbance is caused by male teenagers. Common things in our society, the media decides to reveal these announcments on other types of media forms such as newspapers."

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Cynthia, Carter (2003) Violence & The Media. USA: Weave Co.





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Winston, Brian (2005): Media Technology & Society. New York: Routledge.




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Articles from the Independent linked to my Critical Investigation

Three teenagers arrested for firework death

Three teenagers have been arrested in connection with the death of a mother who died after a firework was pushed through her letterbox, setting her house ablaze.

Mary Fox, 59, who had nine children, was trapped in her bedroom after reportedly pushing her son Raum, 17, to safety through an upstairs window as flames engulfed the house.

The youths, two aged 17 and one of 18, are all from Bodmin in Cornwall.

The remnants of a firework were found behind the front door of Mrs Fox's house in Carpenter Court, Wallace Road, Bodmin.

The three were arrested on suspicion of murder and are in custody at Launceston police station.

After leaping from the three-storey house, Raum ran to alert neighbours that his mother was still trapped inside. Firefighters found Mrs Fox dead in the same room from which her son escaped.

Officers have investigated claims that Raum, who has learning difficulties, was being bullied at school and that the family was targeted by youths who had been throwing fireworks in the street.

It is thought Raum moved from Bodmin College to St Austell College because of bullying.

But Devon and Cornwall police said there is no obvious evidence that Mrs Fox or Raum had been victims of bullying after speaking to schools and social services.

They were held in custody after detectives said they found clues on Facebook to what is being treated as murder. Officers acted on reports suggesting people had posted the suspects' names on the internet.

RE teacher sentenced for sex with teenager

A religious education teacher will be sentenced today for having sex with a teenage boy.

Madeleine Martin, 39, admitted the relationship with the youth, who was under 16 at the time, when she appeared in court in September.

Martin, of Grassfield Way, Knutsford, Cheshire, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of engaging in sexual activity with the boy in February this year.

She was warned she faced a custodial sentence.

Martin was also suspended from her job at a Greater Manchester school, which cannot be named for legal reasons.

Sentencing is at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.

Teenage boy stabbed to death in south London

Detectives said today they had launched a murder investigation after a teenage boy was stabbed to death in a south London park.

Officers were called to Larkhall Park in Lambeth yesterday evening after two teenage boys were seen with injuries.

One was pronounced dead at the scene while the other was taken to hospital where his condition was described as stable.

Four men have been arrested in connection with the incident and detectives said they were keeping an open mind as to the motive.

Articles from the Guardian linked to my Critical Investigation

Teenager who set girlfriend on fire found guilty of 'barbaric and evil' murder

Killing of Jessica McCagh, 17, will 'deeply disturb' all right-thinking people, says judge

A teenager who doused his girlfriend in petrol and set her on fire was found guilty of her "barbaric and evil" murder today.

Jessica McCagh, 17, became engulfed in a ball of flames when Stewart Blackburn set her alight in the bedroom of his flat in Arbroath, Angus, in April this year.

A jury took less than two hours to find Blackburn, 18, guilty of murder after a 10-day trial at the high court in Livingston, West Lothian. Judge Lord Bracadale said Jessica suffered a "terrible death" at her boyfriend's hands. He said the crime would "deeply disturb" all right-thinking people.

He told Blackburn: "The jury have found you guilty of the murder of Jessica McCagh by throwing petrol over her and setting her alight.

"She was your girlfriend, aged 17 years, and she died a terrible death at your hands. Her family are left bereft. These acts demonstrate a degree of wickedness on your part which will leave all right-thinking people deeply disturbed."

Solicitor general Frank Mulholland QC, prosecuting, yesterday told jurors: "It is difficult to envisage more cruel or sadistic treatment of another human being."

He said Blackburn had committed "a barbaric and evil act against a defenceless young woman".

Friends risked their lives trying to save teenager crushed in cave, inquest told

Inquest hears how boy, 16, was crushed to death when cave roof collapsed after he fell asleep near a camp fire during a party

Aiden Brookes' friends risked their lives to heave a slab of sandstone off him and drag him out, but they could not save him. He died from multiple injuries suffered in the Hermitage caves in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, early on 6 April following the collapse, which is thought to have been triggered by the heat of the camp fire.

A geologist said that a pre-existing weakness in the "shoulder" of the 1,000-year-old cave had combined with the heat of the fire to cause around 200kg of rock to sheer away.

Zakk Griffiths and Philip West have been nominated for Royal Humane Society awards for their efforts to help their friend.

Griffiths told the inquest in Bridgnorth how they went into the cave following the collapse. After helping to remove the slab, they lifted the teenager out of the cave and tried to resuscitate him while paramedics hurried to the scene.

Nineteen-year-old Jessica Wright said she had also been struck by the rockfall, which happened at about 2.20am.

She said: "At the point where the cave collapsed, Aiden was lying in front of the fire. He was smiling and asleep. I got up to change the music over when I heard this deafening rumble and I just remember falling face forward."

A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the South Shropshire coroner, Anthony Sibcy.

Teenager charged with murder

A teenager has been charged with the murder of a mother-of-two who was found dying in a west London street with one of her hands cut off.

Geeta Aulakh, 28, was found fatally injured by a passerby in Greenford on Monday evening, a week ago. A postmortem examination gave the cause of her death as severe head injury.

Sher Singh, 18, of Southall, was charged with her murder yesterday and will appear at Ealing magistrates court today. Eleven other men, including Aulakh's husband Harpreet, were released on bail.

Meanwhile two men have been charged with the murder of a teenager who was stabbed and run over by a car.

Michael McCarthy, 19, was attacked on Thursday evening in Stoke Newington, north London. Mustafa Demirtas and Julian Edwards, both 20 and from north London, have been charged with his murder and are due to appear at Thames magistrates court today.