1
The traditional view would be the police are seen as the
elite people as if they have no faults. They seem to be the people who have
control over the public. There was a suggested lck of control of the k9 police
dog as he was a threat to society. According to new and digital media Ian Thompson
was seen as being anti-social. As this is how his body language was shown.
Ian's family attended today's Metropolitan Police disciplinary hearing
of PC Simon Harwood, held in public in west London. Speaking on behalf of the
Ians Family Campaign, Ian's son Paul King said:
"We came here expecting a disciplinary
hearing. There has been no hearing. We expected the Met to rule on whether it's
officer killed Ian. The Met has basically gone 'no comment'.
It's a whitewash. It's like they have just let PC Harwood resign. The conflicting
verdicts of the inquest and criminal court still need to be resolved.
We haven't given up, we will now be looking to the civil courts for the final
judgement on who killed our dad."
A website was set up by his family that showed how an
officer resigned or had his position in the force dropped because of the
incident. This supports a hegemonic view of society where advantages of the
public can be taken and no real punishment is made on the superior people.
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The author argues that without 2.0 it wouldn't have been
possible to take Harwood to court, and it would not have been possible to
create awareness about the situation.
I believe that that new and digitial media does reinforce
dominant hegemonic views as the institutions are the elite nation themselves
and therefore what they put out has a view of their own in wish they can convey
their views in the public eye. However I do think comment sections allow the
audience to challenge them as these are interactive ways of sharing opinions,
and if popular enough the institution may be aware of them.
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