Riot Questions

1. The images had created a representation of youth as being from a poor council estate as they wore tracksuits and were shown vandalising.
2. David Buckingham believes that the riots and the actions of the youth during them were a very strong as it shows the lower classes to being criminals and violent.
3. The IPSOS/MORI survey had found 40% of articles that involved young people contained violence. 71% of them involved negativity in youth.
4. Stanley cohen had stated that the media had portrayed the riots as a disturbance and an even bigger moral panic.
5. Some of the media such as rap, violent games, social media, television, and other sources were blamed for the riots.
6. Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter,  and the phone messenger of Blackberry's was also used in the communication to organise the riots. In turn this caused at the time for blackberry to shut down temporarily.
7. The hyperdermic needle model links as the media had injected the information that people were stealing tv's and other expensive goods which allowed people in poverty to go out and perform similar acts. Also, the two step flow model can be used as opinion leaders took to facebook and were followed by others.
8. Henry Jenkins had seen the riots as a shift in power from the government to the people and as democratisation finally coming into power.
9. the right wing response is that the rioters are criminal thugs who have not been educated well and brought up poorly.
10. the left wing response would be that the rioters come from an underprivileged background where they feel that society is against them with the raise in fees. 
11. In my opinion the riots were an excuse for many young adults to perform criminal acts.
12. Capitalism can be blamed for the riots as money is the goal for everyone and individuals saw this as an opportunity to loot as many valuables as they could.
13. People involved in the riots hardly got a chance to explain themselves in the media.
14. The causes happen to be opportunism, lack of money, unemployment, an increase in student tuition fees and how they felt they were treated compared with.