Case study: Young people in London (19/11/12)

What Kind of representation of young Londoners can you find?
The representation that I can find from these different articles is that most of them have a negative perceptions of young youths in London. The London riot would have certainly caused this, so the newspaper would be showing this through their actions. The pictures which have been published are truly epic as they are pictures taking live from the scene when the riots were happening. Some of these picture could be a moral panic to the audience, and this is the reason why the newspapers chose these pictures as it shows the young people of London in a way no one has seen them before. 'Trouble in the hood' this is slang headline for any newspaper to be using, as hood is something which young teenagers would be calling their territory. Indicating that these 3 days of rioting, London was owned by the youths of London. The pictures which contrasted with this headline was various of pictures which were stereotypical black youth of London. They were all hooded up and their faces were covered, with fire behind them to show the destructions they have caused in London. This would be a terrible representation of the young Londoners as they are being shown to be ruthless, destructive and heartless human beings just by these pictures. Another quote which was said by the cops 'we'll find these thugs who organised the looting', the word 'thug' shows us that the cops are not impressed by the youth of London at all. This implies to the us that the youth of London have a bad reputation already with the youths in the city.

Can you link this to any media theory? 
- Uses and gratification theory - identify - The audience know people that were involved in the riots or known someone who went in prison because of this. Inform - It also informs the audience about the riots, as this is the biggest riots in the history of London. So people would be intrigued about the trust about what the youths of London would be doing in the city.
- Alvarado theory - Dangerous - The