Mail Online - homepage analysis

Complete the following tasks:

Go to the Mail Online website.

• List all the first 30 news stories that appear on the homepage.
• Categorise the stories by type: celebrity gossip, sport, world news, UK news, politics, sport etc
• What stories appear more often?
• Why would those stories be popular? Give reasons? What does this tell you about the sort of person that reads this site?
• Look at the 'sidebar of shame'.
• List the first 20 'stories'.
• Categorise the stories - this may need to be by type of celebrity or content of the article.

Representation of teenagers - Mail Online/ Daily Mail

Research how teenagers are represented by the Mail Online.

• Google 'mail online teenagers' - see image above.
• Choose at least 5 different stories that cover a range of teenage issues and experiences.
• Save the images that have been used. Write about the types of images used and what they tell the audience about teenagers. Comment on how teenagers are represented in the images? 
• Read through the articles and list the positive and negative words and phrases used in each one. What do they tell us about the attitudes towards teenagers? Are these attitudes fair? What stereotypes are used? Who are the audience? How can you tell? Explain your thinking in as much detail as possible.