Tag: Media
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How the Media Simplifies Crime
This 2019 blog post from the John Howard Society of Canada is useful here: The media simplify the coverage of crime in the following ways: Media coverage tends to focus on the individual criminals, and their psychological state, with very little focus on the social context which led to a crime being committed (so very…
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Sensationalisation of Crime in the Media
If we include fictional crime programmes, the Media tends to sensationalise crime: Many programmes almost revel in crime and especially deviance, sometimes even glorifying it. Consider the way that deviant celebrities are treated or consider the hyperreal, idealistic representations of war in games such as Call of Duty. Fictional crime dramas tend to normalise police…
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What is Cybercrime?
Cybercrime refers to illegal activities carried out with a computer over a network such as the internet. Some of the most common types of cybercrime include: Identity and data theft internet fraud (online scams) hacking (unauthorised access to networks) Infecting devices with viruses Denial of Service attacks (DOS attacks) file sharing in breach of copyright…
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The Exaggeration of Violent and Sexual Crimes in the Media
Content analysis shows that the media exaggerate the extent of violent and sexual crimes, with over-reporting of such crimes giving us the impression that there is 10 times more of it than is actually the case according to sources such as the Crime Survey of England and Wales. This blog post summarises some recent evidence…
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The Incredible Sexism of James Bond
I’ve been watching a few of the old James Bond movies since they’ve been on ITV recently. A few weeks ago I watched ‘Live and Let Die’ which was the first outing for Roger Moore, and originally aired in 1973, my birth year! Besides being surprised that I didn’t remember most of it (I thought…
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Seems to be Capitalism as Usual for Corporations during Coronavirus…
Several large Corporations have created adverts tapping into our new ‘Coronavirus’ norms. There seems to be a pretty formulaic structure involving images of key workers with thankful messages, images of people in their homes communicating via Zoom or some other video conferencing app, and finally a reference (the point of the ad) to how the…
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A Very Paternal Sun
I’ve been adding a copy of The Sun newspaper to my basket every time I do my lock down shop, primarily because it at around 50 pence it’s pretty cheap! The Sun is also Britain’s most widely circulated newspaper, so it’s worth doing a bit of casual content analysis on it during these unusual coronavirus…
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Captain Tom’s 100th Birthday: A Quintessentially British Occasion?
Today is Captain Tom’s 100th Birthday, an event broadcast live to the nation by BBC Breakfast between 8.00 a.m. to 8.30 a.m. Captain Tom really is the perfect media hero for our times, and the construction of ‘our national hero’ was levelled up this morning as it turns out Captain Tom seems to be a…
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Celebs like us?
Lockdown media has been full of celebrities speaking to us from wherever they may be isolated, and one might think that because we’ve all got ‘lockdown’ in common, that we might somehow feel closer to the celebrities who are also going through the same challenges as the rest of us ordinary folk… as if they…
