Age

• • Often sexist double standards when older people are presented in the media
  • The older a woman gets the less likely she is to get a leading role compared to older men who present TV programs
  • Older male actors allowed to be romantically linked with young women
• Biggs

  Many representations of older people in entertainment shows however, they're often stereotyped as different, vague or forceful
• Signorelli

  Studied prime TV programs, found both young and old were under represented

  • TV representation was focused to middle aged people
• Featherstone and Hepworth

  Found magazines for older people tended to show an image of youthful looking older people and wearing youthful clothing
• Newman

  Class influences representations of age

  • older upper class people often cast as characters with high school status and advanced careers
• Wayne et al

  Looked at representations of young people on the news

  • young people often presented as a threat to society, have few opportunities to express their views > can't influence the way they're presented
  • due to how young people are represented, many problems are ignored (mental health, finances)
  • lack of sympathy for young people makes issues worse > government and society don't think think they're important enough to address