Age Representation

Age Representation 

You need to collect examples of Representation of Age in the media.

1) Young people

2) Old people

3) Stereotypes of age in media

Points to remember

• The representation has to come from a specific media text. ie (Old age is represented negatively in a recent article in the Daily Mail, the article is about ............)

• The representation should be contemporary (within the last 2/3 years)

• How is the representation created ? Visual Image, Language, Mode of Address etc

Try to get Rich texts that you can use for Representation of Age/Gender etc.

This is a good example as you can use it for both Age and Gender.




Young people- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570088/Carer-thought-lose-sight-EGGED-gang-laughing-thugs.html

Young people is represented negatively in this recent article in the Daily Mail, the article is about a middle aged women who nearly loses her sight because a group of thugs throw eggs at her. This representation is created from the women who was a victim in the attack and her side of the story. The representation cannot be justified as a positive representation because it is an attack. The mode of address is formal as it is in a news paper and addressing the readers in a formal and urgent way. Because the newspaper wants the reader to be engaged it uses imagery to paint the picture. The language that is used is standard English because it is coming from the victims point of view. The story  uses direct text from the victim  like I have said who tells the story as she was the only one there who came forward to explain and wanted people to make aware of this incident. Overall a story like this not only reflects bad on the people who was apart of it but the youth of today as well. Because the media does give the people doing this a identity but a age range so by doing this it is reflected bad on everyone who is in that age range.


Old- http://news.sky.com/story/1205517/breast-cancer-third-of-new-cases-in-over-70s

This news story shows that old people are more venerable to the disease which shows the stereotype of being fragile.

The stereotype of old people has been created by there roles in film and other media texts. The mise-en-scene of a stereotypical old person is that they have a walking stick and they wear knitted cardigans. They generally have a hunch back and slowly get around. This story shows that old people are more venerable and more fragile when it comes to diseases. Within the story it shows the old women playing a piano with a typically old women's blanket in the background. Also there is a single chair which most old people have to show that they are alone or they have His and Hers chairs. As the story goes on it shows the old women with there grandchildren doing activities what children do. Which shows the divide in age.
Overall the story shows that old people are more prone to the disease than younger women.
The text is written in a formal manor as it addressing the older generation because that is who the story is aimed at. The language that is used isn't fluent but instead it uses facts after facts so the reader knows that it is true. Also by using facts it makes the story more real which might scare the reader into going to get themselves checked out.