Media & Collective Identity
Representations of Youth & Youth Culture
- How is youth culture represented in the media?
- truant
- negativly
- rebellious
- violent
- How is youth culture represented in TV programmes?
- rebels
- anti-social
- bad-behaviour
- disruptive
- How is youth culture represented in the news?
- dangerous
- selfish
- easily influenced
- How is youth culture represented in films?
- rebels
- anti-social
- disruptive
- anti-establishment
- How is youth culture represented on social media?
- community
- judgemental
- influential
No, I don't think that youth's view the representation of youths the same as adults because I think that youths would be more understanding of circumstances and be more aware of media stereotypes. However, yes I think they could view representations of youth the same as I think that both young people and adults could be judgmental and make assumptions of representations.
If I panic in the exam I can talk about my own experiences, as I am a youth.
Media and Collective Identity is one out of 2 questions that you can answer in your exam. There are 6 topic areas in the exam:
- contempory media regulation
- global media
- media and collective identity
- media in the online age
- post modern media
- 'we media' and democracy
The main area of focus will be:
Representations of youth and youth culture in the media.
We will study relevant theorists, we will apply their theories to texts. We will consider the following 4 areas:
- How do the contempory media represent nations, regions and ethnic/social/collective groups of people in different ways
- How does contempory representation compare to previous time periods
- What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people
- To what extent is human identity represented in the media
- HISTORICAL representations
- CONTEMPORY representations (main focus area)
- FUTURE representations
Important Exam Rules - Must refer to at least 2 different media texts/forms
- Media texts we will look at include -
- film (good for historical references)
- Tv (good for historical/contampory reference)
- Press (*)
- TV News (*)
- Social Media (good for future/contempory reference)
'The representation of youth in the media is complex and repetitive, depending on who and how the media is re-presented to the audience depends on how consumers percieve youths of society'
How to validate our argument we must consider the following:
- who produces the reprentation
- the media form used for the representation (tv, film, social media, TV news, press)
- The target audience for the representation: (young, actual, aprent, older non-parental, OAP's)
- Press
- London Riots (2011) (contempory)
- Brighton Beach Riots (1964) (historical)
- TV News
- Current Affairs
- Anne Maguire murdered by Will Cornick, stabbing in the classroom
- Films
- Fish Tank (2009)
- Quadrophenia (1979)
- TV
- Geordie Shore (contempiry)
- Inbetweeners (*)
- Made In Chelsea (*)
- Social Media
- Blogs
You are assessed on the strength and validity of your argument
How you will achieve marks in the exam:
- EAA - Explanation, analysis, argument
- Must make sure my argument relates back to the question
- Must make sure my answer includes a variety of media thoery and texts to support my arguement
- I must personally enagage with the media forms and industries to demonstrate my own opinion
- EG - Examples
- My use of theories and industry knowledge connect clearly to the quesion asked
- I must refer mainly to contempory examples, but back up my argument with historic and future texts
- Must show that my argument develops through my answer and apply theory when relevent
- T - Terminology
- use relevant media thoery and write in a formal manor
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