- Sky News have used the polices perspective to present the story. Out of 100%, 80% of the news story focused on how police officers were injured, or and over the shoulder shot of young teenagers attacking the police officers.
2) How are the police represented in this coverage?
- Police officers are represented as vulnerable beings when the news presenter said that some officers are injured and in hospital and also how they are not in control of the situation. They also make police officers seem weak and defenceless as they do not defend themselves whilst being attacked.
3) How are young people represented in this coverage?
- Young people are being negatively represented as most citizen journalism clips being shown includes young teenagers with their hoods up, stealing clothes, electronics etc. They are also presented as uncontrollable, raging humans as clips of them burning down a bus and a building is being shown.
4) What images and videos are selected by Sky News to accompany the story?
- Sky News chose the videos which portray the young people negatively, for example, when the young people are throwing rocks at them and chose clips were police officers seemed to look very stable and had most of the power. Citizen journalism videos are being used, however, they have only used video clips that make the young people look over-powering and make them look dangerous.
5) What choice of words is used to present this news event?
- They didn't use many sophisticated words. However, they did repeat a few words such as 'young people' which suggests that young people have a big part of this riots.
6) What aspect of the story is chosen as the most important detail and included at the very beginning of the report?
- The most important aspect of the story is the police officers because in most sentences they are mentioned.
7) How is narrative used to engage the audience with this news story?
- Young people star in this story therefore people the same age as the ones in this video will relate to them.
8) How can we apply Todorov's equilibrium theory to this coverage?
- Personally, I think there is a disequilibrium which is the riots as this story is filled with negativity and there isn't really a positive angle to it.
9) What examples of Propp's character types can we find in this coverage? Are there heroes and villains?
- The protagonist in this story is the young people doing damage to the town. However, they are not the hero. The hero of this story is the police officers that are injured/trying to stop the riot as they are being positively represented and the news programme shows more of an angle of the police officers.
10) How might citizen journalism have been used to provide a different angle on this story?
- To provide a different angle to this story, citizen journalism clips of police officers attacking young people could have been used to make the young people look more vulnerable. They could also use citizen journalism clips of other young people peacefully rioting and not stealing clothes and electronics.
Extension task: Find another news story on Youtube that offers a particular representation of young people. You could look for a story such as the three South London schoolgirls who ran away to Syria to join ISIS. Embed the video on your blog and write an analysis of the representation of different people and groups in the clip.
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