AC1.4 Describe media representations of crime(A+ graded 100% verified)

AC1.4 Describe media representations of crime(A+ graded 100% verified)Newspapers - Content analysis of the media in terms of crime has shown that somewhere between 1 and 5 per cent of space is devoted to crime and justice issues with news papers in Britain devoting between 5 and 30 per cent of space to crime Films - 1/5 of all cinema films are crime movies and up to half have significant crime content, films fuel the publics enthusiasm for crime from fictional action films to films which recreate cases such as Legend a film about the life of Kray twins Electronic gaming - People can watch and play games and copy the actions Music - Expression of deviance and has often been accused of reinforcing stereotypes and encouraging deviant behaviour Television - Media presents crime stories (both factual and fictional) in ways which is selectively distort and manipulate public perception, creating a false picture of crime, false picture promotes stereotyping, bias, prejudice and gross oversimplification of the facts Social media - Social media means that reporting of crime reaches a large, often global, audience which is positive as it raises awareness, however a great deal of content in the media is referred to as "digibabble" as it is uploaded by people who have no qualifications of expertise in the field they are discussing but may be believed by many