This article represents Britain as a "nation in crisis" and this being down to the youth culture, predominantly London based.
The youths have been represented as a microcosm for the British society as a whole, portraying the young people of Britain to all share the same mind set of frustration and due to a lack of education use brute force to get what they want with a blatant disregard for the consequences.
British youth culture is collectively shown as anti-social, uneducated people however this is only a snippet of what has chosen to be shown within the media coverage, as Ox-Bridge graduates joined in with the riots, this proved the media coverage to be partial.
With corporate media conglomerates like BBC is funded by the Government would be unable to show alternative views and theories for why young people resorted to this level of violence. This would be unbenefital for the BBC to blame their funders for the riots.
Academic Response
The Doctor-Writer and Daily Mail have attempted to create a hegemonic ideology for British Youth Culture. From my educated opinion, is very rich coming from someone un-cultured of the youth of Britain. I ask you, how often you have converged with young people, before you create a microcosm and a pejoration of the word 'youth' itself. I myself am sure that your empty words are not backed up with reliable statistics of Britain, perhaps a minority of London, but those young people, working hard at college, university to obtain stable careers are disregarded and their efforts are neglected.
So how are British youth meant to redeem their hegemonic representation if nobody is willing to listen? Media conglomerates rarely speak to youths, only people of a similar class, background and lifestyle to your own, with no regard to the difficulties the British youths face. If you took a moment from your hectic schedule to talk to people without grouping them together, this would be something you might realise.
So how are British youth meant to redeem their hegemonic representation if nobody is willing to listen? Media conglomerates rarely speak to youths, only people of a similar class, background and lifestyle to your own, with no regard to the difficulties the British youths face. If you took a moment from your hectic schedule to talk to people without grouping them together, this would be something you might realise.
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