How does the internet provide an enormous challenge for regulators? In the news there are many video clips showing what young youths did during the riots. This shows that the media is stereotyping young youths as they show them stealing from stores such as game stores, footlocker, and mobile phone stores, therefore, giving a negative representation towards young youths of the modern society. Also it would be an enormous challenge for regulators as they wouldn’t be able to control social networking as they may not have the rights to do so. Rioters contacted each other through their mobile phones, twitter, Facebook, blackberry messaging etc… Therefore, there are no regulations over these social networking sites, even though the government tried to stop these websites during the riots, they had no rights and it wasn’t their choice, therefore, the sites were still operating during the riots making it even more difficult for regulators to restrict people from social networks.
How does the internet provide a post - modern vision of identity? The internet provides a post-modern vision as technology has advanced over the years; therefore, the use of internet is more frequent for information and social networking. For example, social networking allows people to form/find their identity as the mass media has become more dominant over the years. Social networking such as Facebook and twitter allow people to identify with one another, therefore, allowing them to create and find their identity through Facebook or twitter. The London Riots show how young youths are negatively identified through YouTube videos and news videos. Internet images and information increasingly dominate our sense of reality, and the way we define ourselves in the world around us. Therefore, post-modern identity is controlled by the media, as they categorise difference types of ages. Post-modernism has a neo-Marxist effect on society.
How has online press affected us in today’s society? Online press is so dominant in society that is becomes people’s everyday reality and it influences people’s decisions. For example, the press showed dozens of videos of the London riots which showed youths destroying the city. The press influenced this negative representation of youth upon society, therefore, society has discriminated young youths and categorised them as criminals. This is also the case with the Brixton riots, the press released videos and articles about the Brixton riots, thus giving a negative representation on Brixton, so people around the world would have this fixed opinion on Brixton even if they haven’t been there due to the press. The press therefore, encodes information and then it is decoded by people.
How does it present an area of control for today’s society? During the London riots, many youths uploaded videos and pictures of them looting stores, this shows that youths of the modern society adhere to the media representation of youths. It shows that even though the media constantly degrade modern youths and influence stereotypes, youths of today reflect it upon the society themselves by behaving aggressively and delinquently.
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