Issues and debates

Question for critical investigation:

How do hip hop music videos featuring contemporary rap stars such as Eminem and Lil Wayne construct ideologies of masculinity and why does this negatively influence teenagers?

Texts:
eminem - no love
lil wayne - drop the world
eminem - love the way you lie

Issues and debates

represenation and stereotypes - representation is what males or females are represented as in the media and stereotype is a belife about specific social groups or types of individual.

moral panics - intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order

media effects - theories about the ways in which mass media affect how their audiences think and behave.

regulation and censorship - rule:a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior and censorship is monitoring and controlling media content

news values - determine how much prominence a news story is given by a media outlet, and the attention it is given by the audience.

representation and stereotype - stereotypes of males and the reprsentations in the media and the audience
moral panics - violence in music videos encouraging teenagers to act in a particular way
media effects - effects teenagers to behave in the way male are portrayed in the media
regulation and censorship - how music was not allowed to be listened to and how thats changed now (e.g. more accpetable in society)
news values - lil wayne going to jail for a gun related charge
the effect of globalisation on the media -

Theories

audience theories - hypodermic needle theory (explains how mass audience might react to mass media)
genre theories - study of films in order to facilitate the categorization of films
gender and ethnicity - set of characteristics that are seen to distinguish between male and female and ethnicity is a group of people whose members identify with each other
postmodernism and its critques - 'after the modern'.

http://www.mediaknowall.com/violence/moralpanicnotes.html http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Students/hrb9701.html
these two links talk about moral panics and its effects

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/men_and_masculinity/index.cfm
the link shows the stereotypes of men

http://www.theory.org.uk/david/effects.htm

this link shows the different media effects

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/usegrat.html
http://www.mediaknowall.com/alevkeyconcepts/genre.html

this links shows the audience theories

http://www.main-vision.com/richard/genre.shtml

this links shows the genre theory

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/04/lil-wayne-prison-release-delayed

this link shows the newpaper article of lil wayne in prison