Lab #2 – Things to think about
Intro – DO NOT JUST STRING TOGETHER THESE QUOTES!!!
• Why is media representation of youth an important topic to study and theoretical backing?
“So far research has indicated that the framing and representation of youth in the media in general is negative and that this influences both public opinion on youth and youth itself. Thus media is assumed to contribute to negative stereotypes and stigmatization of youth.” P837
“Several studies have shown that media coverage influences society and vice versa. Research has shown that there is a constant interaction between the political agenda , our private and public behavior, and the formation of opinion and even language.” P839
“If the dominant description of youth in the media involves perpetrators and crime then a population of young people may in fact become more violent and criminal.” P839
“Analyzing how media describes the young is therefore important: if the predominant media description of the young is negative, then both youth researchers, young people themselves and journalists should be aware and take into consideration that particular generation will change its behavior.” P839
• What has previous research found?
Stensaas (1961) p.839
Cohen (1972) p.840
Pearson (1983) p.840
Porteous and Colston (1980) p.840
Devlin (2000) p. 840
Heintz-Knowles (2000) p.840
Aubrun and Grady (2000) p.840
Nichols and Good (2004) p.841
LEVINSEN AND WIEN (2011)
• What is the rational for the current study?
Challenge negative bias
Longitudinal
Denmark back to the US.
• What are our research questions and hypotheses?
Neg/pos bias against young people? trends, overall? More neg, but decrease in neg,
Topics in the news, what are most frequent? A lot of crime, why? decrease in crime because of decreased crime rates. Maybe other salient issues. Previous research findings
Gender and how its represented – more articles about boys, more neg about boys, increase in female over time.
Quoting, has there been a change over time? – increase in quoting
Individuals/group – hypothesis
Method
• Why did we choose New York Times historical?
Pg 842
Available
Good newspaper
• Why did we choose the years?
Replicated years chosen by L & W
• How did we do our search?
• How did you decide how to code the articles? (topic, pos/neg/neutral, indi/group, quoted etc)
Results
• Table 1 (data collection)
• Table 2 (classification of articles by subject)
• Table 3 (negative and positive representations of youth)
• Table 4 (young people as individuals or group members)
• Table 5 (quoting young people in the news)
• Table 6 (Gender in the news)
• Table 7 (Gender – positive or negative representations (all years))
Discussion
• What are the major findings and how do they relate to previous research/our hypotheses?
Limitations
• What are they?
Suggestions for future research
• What could we do better/do next time?
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