Moral Panics - When the mass media demonise groups, people or products that they believe become a threat to society values and interests it is called a 'Moral Panic' (Stanley Cohen, 1972) the group/products are referred to as 'Folk Devils'

White Underclass - White people on the dole

Media Bias - Moral panic is determined by who owns that specific media and is therefor their media bias. moral panics are part of sensationalists to make money.

All representations are meditated (Hall, 1980)

Is there use of stereotypes / countertops (Perkins, 1979). Not all stereotypes are negative

Representations of women - are they objectified (Mulvey, 1975) Representation of men (Earp and Katz, 1999) - 'equation of masculinity with pathological control and violence'

Drill Music

- Short drill music documentary

Drill music is a genre of music from all around the UK but mainly in London and the lyrics are based on gun crimes, knife crimes and any type of violence they have committed to show off how big they think they are, this is being banned because of children being mislead by wrong role models in life and looking up to the wrong people.

GTA IV

 - Location of shooting

An 8 year old boy shot his 90 year old grandmother purposely after playing GTA IV all day, this happened in Louisiana, USA. The boy is currently being looked after by his parents but the authorities are treating the incident as 'Homicide'

Call of Duty

This man choked a 13 year old boy because he was loosing to him in a game of call of duty so he entered his house and proceeded to hurt him while he didn't know he was entering the property.

Alverado (1987), Hall (1995) - Ethnicity 'exotic, dangerous, humorous, pitied)
Turton (2014) - Hooligans, trouble causes, Black and Asian boys
Lloyd (1995) girls are seen in the negative or as 'double deviant' - trouble causes but should been seen as it because they are 'women'