BBC George Entwistle's

George Entwistle's
Should not resign as a Director general as in his defence he had to send out news and give audience information of some sort, that the public was waiting for also he was only working for 54 days at the public broadcaster which covers his mistake as he was a new worker in the broadcast sector/
He should be given a chance or be removed as director manager post and drop down. As he was only doing his job and what a news reporter/ public broadcasters does. However, because of the wide spread of rumours and the case that he has put such a high brand BBC down there should be another director general at his post and he should be removed because of the mistake he’s made as a director general has huge politically responsibility. He can survive it but I think he's made it very difficult for himself. Also towards the end their will be a change of director general in order to not make the same mistake as now

Twitter and tweets should not be closed as important updates which are made cross over to young teenagers and adults who use twitter as well as a way of giving their opinion to what they think. However, the tweeters that tweeted information similar to George Entwistle’s should be at least are receiving a warning of or some type of punishment.

News night should not be shut down because it has been successful over the upcoming years which has informed and educated as well as entertained public with its up-coming news for one mistake it shouldn't be shut down, however, they should be receiving a tagged fine

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/nov/20/sally-bercow-twitter-feed-deleted.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stupid-woman-sally-bercows-twitter-account-deleted-after-apparent-hacker-posts-message-criticising-her-8335485.html

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/law/article3605538.ece

Media story..

MP demands apology after abusive tweets are traced to Wonga employee

Guardian uncovers evidence that employee of online lender abused anti-payday loans campaigner Stella Creasy on Twitter

The MP and anti-payday loans campaigner Stella Creasy has demanded an apology from the online lender Wonga after a Guardian investigation uncovered evidence that an employee of the firm has been using an anonymous Twitter account to publicly attack her, calling her mentally unstable.

Young people in London

"A Negative representation is better than no representation at all"
Discuss this statement with reference to the group or place you have studied

The young riots were represented as negative side, the media was a negative voice for the young youths in London.

- Media injected people and audience accepted that youths in London are groups of criminals and riots
whereas we don't know what specifically types of youths the media is aiming as in the riots 2011 different ethnicity  ages, genders, class were involved and that's why its stereotyped all young people in London

- Over exaggeration of the media in a negative response which led to moral panics and news values relating to young people

-Hegemony is controlling people to stay in their place therefore giving youths negative representation to keep society distracted.


No representation IS better than no representation as it enables young youths to start again and build up a new representation of themselves rather than accepting the different type of stereotypes - they can also reject the self-fulfilling prophecy and change their label that the media has given them through the news values

Example- riots have been portrayed negatively through the 3 media platforms especially newspapers and social networking which is seen as the madness of the whole creation.

US election 2012

the hug photo makes social media history, as a photograph of Obama embracing his wife
became the mos liked and re-tweeted post ever!

Obama posted an image at 0416 GMT, claiming victory over Mitt Romney in the US presidential race. Since then it has been re-tweeted nearly 700,000 times. More than 3.23 million people have liked the image on Facebook, with over 400,000 shares; more than 100,000 today were liking it every hour.
The unprecedented viral success of the post confirmed the role that social media played in the US presidential campaign.. In the past, election night ended when the losing candidate phoned the winner to concede defeat, with news of the call promptly leaked to news media.

31 million election-related tweets on Tuesday night, making election night "the most tweeted about event in U.S. political history, 

Summary
the new digital media takes a huge role as this picture has been tweeted and liked on Facebook shows how much social websites are important,

To what extent do you agree with Judith Butler's theory that Gender roles are socially constructed? Use example from media research in your response.

Gender is the different biological sex we have in today's society such as males and females and gender refers to how it categories are constructed. Butlers theory argues that he gender roles are he performance and that it is socially constructed, this means society creates their own meanings and expects everyone to follow the norms and values. Primary socialisation is a very important part of life as through primary socialisation which mainly takes place in the house it is the acceptance and learning of a set of norms an values and processes through socialisation, it happened during childhood where a child learns the attitudes and actions as a member of a particular culture. Society interprets through gender toys and colours. An example of this is parents of a young boy might give toys to their child such as trucks, cars and footballs to play or make the do outdoor activities and dress them up in blue. Whereas, the parents of a girl will give her toys such as dolls, read books to her and dress her up in clothes such as dresses and in pink.

However gender roles are not socially constructed. In Parsons view traditional gender roles make the women as the housewife doing the inside housework, socialising the children and the husband is seen as the breadwinner and a strong independent who provides for the family as his wife and children are dependent on him. However in today’s society women are also becoming breadwinners and taking independent role such as providing for the family. McRobbie compares magazines which are aims at women and young teenagers from the 1980 and 1990’s , she researched that over the years women changed their view about their future and started to become more independent, whereas, before they would just accept the role of a housewife and get married. This therefore, gave women an empowering view.

Parents choose to put their children in different colours of clothes such as boys in blue, and girls in pink this is because society is socially constructed and they follow up what society expects them to do. This relates to Butlers theory as society creates their own meaning and wxoects everyone to follow the norms and values as if parents dressed their daughter into blue clothes and gave her toys such as toy cars society will assume that the child is a boy by just looking at her. Judith’s Butler argues that gender roles are socially constructed this is because it depends on the persons own choice and the way they are influenced by society and secondly the media also nowadays the media is a crucial part of peoples live as in secondary socialisation they see norms and values which are expected through schools and media, such as: they would see make-up on girls very common and wearing latest type of clothing will fit them into society this is because they socially construct this meaning and attach it to their values.

As breaking a norm or value will make society react differently to an individual for example if a boy wears a dress with tight clothing’s and tights, members of society will act different towards the person. This involves stereotypes which means a fixed image or idea about a person or a group and labelling them can lead to individuals accepting it as stereotyping their gender as being feminine will encourage them to take it on and accept it as an individual or the individual might reject it by changing the way he/she is dressed. Butler argues that gender is socially constructed and this is due mainly to primary socialisation as that is what everyone learns in a young age. Also some may accept that society is treating them to reject the self-fulfilling prophecy and changing the label that someone has given for example, at school a child might be very lazy and arrogant and the teacher might label them as a failure, some individuals will reject the self-fulfilling prophecy and go against it and prove by working harder, not being lazy and gaining another positive reward rather than negative, whereas some may just accept it and reject it and accept its sub-culture that the person is a failure,

In conclusion, society is socially constructed as young generation is expected to behave by accepting to play with the toys they are given as is automatically enables their gender to be constructed
should behave and by accepting to play with these toys automatically enables their gender to be constructed with what toy they play with and how they respond. In addition, by dividing the way we socially construct genders can be criticized by Judith Butler as she believes that it divides society in to boys and girls.