“How do documentaries construct ideological messages about Gang Culture? and Why might this be so?”

Product Focus

• Panorama
• ITV- Real Crime

Issues/ Debates

• Knife crime
• Teenage stabbings
• Gun crime
• Anti-social behaviour
• Black on black shooting
• Organised crime
• News values
• Media effect
• Moral Panic
• Representation and stereotypes
• Ownership and control
• Regulation and censorship
• The effect of globalisation on the media

Theories

·         Hypodermic model

·         Cultivation theory

·         Desensitisation

·         Copycat (or modelling theory)

·         Postmodernism and its critiques

·         Gender and ethnicity

·         Marxism and hegemony

·         Audience theories

·         Genre theories