youth culture DAY 5

Today i focused on how the youth is represented on the programme Worlds Strictest Parents - Jamaica. the programme is basically about two "unruly" teenagers who are sent to live abroad with a strict family for a week in an attempt to change their behavior.
several notes on how the teenagers are portrayed are written in my book.

brief summary : the teenagers in this programme are represented as selfish, rude and disrespectful at first before they leave the country. however as the week progresses the teens begin to realize how their behavior has effected their parents and how lucky they are to be privileged and have parents who love and care bout them.

Broadcast youth culture DAY 4

Today i was searching for videos that focused on the youth culture.

knife crime in london

why the youth is important to the business world

youth culture : media influences on youths day 2

Print :

Telegraph : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1558580/After-school-clubs-will-combat-yob-culture.html

The Independent : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/advertising/is-manipulation-by-the-media-killing-british-youth-culture-1671282.html

BBC :http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/348814.stm

Representation of youth in the media :http://www.mediaed.org.uk/posted_documents/repsyouth.html

Drug youth culture in uk and america: http://www.cruelcrew.net/2010/08/06/drug-youth-culture-in-the-uk-america/

Exam Case Study ;; DAY ONE 25.11.10

Idea ; Representation of youth culture in the media

i will be focusing on the youth in all different cultures around the world.

Platforms: Print and Broadcast

Text types:

Broadcast text - Adulthood , X Factor ,Kidulthood, 16 and pregnant , worlds strictest parents, the apprentice.

Print : heat, the sun , metro, the guardian, marie claire , sugar etc

i will be focusing on all text which involve youths and the representations of youth through these texts.

Wider Context :

• is the youth portrayed in a negative or positive way ?
• does the representation of youth differ in other cultures around the world ?
• have the representations of these youth changed over the years?
• are they influenced by what they see through the media ?
• the impact the older generations and celebrities have on youths?
• Are all youths stereotyped the same or does it depend on where they come from and what they
• do and how they dress?

Time Frames: contemporary over the past 5 years

Theoretical findings: focusing on all theories

Postmodernism:

Marxism : david gauntlett , Richard Dyer - does the stereotypes of youth differ depending on social class.

Media Issues: British VS Other Cultures

William Merrin

Merrin believs " the media do not reflect and represent reality but instead produce it, employing this simulation to justify their own continuing existence" - suggesting that the media no longer reflects and represents us but now produces reality and controls us.Merrin offers an overview and evaluation of his key arguments and themes, focusing especially his work: his theory of symbolic exchange and critique of the semiotic and of simulation.


Print:

emedia: http://www.blogger.com/profile/09127640658084479636

broadcast:

Dominic Strinati

"Postmodernism tries to come to terms with and understand a media-saturated society. The mass media, for example, were once thought of as holding up a mirror to, and thereby reflecting, a wider social reality. Now that reality is only definable in terms of surface reflection of the mirror" - Strinati suggest that society was once in control of representations but now the media represents society to us , they are so in control that they are dictating how society now works. It is now difficult to distinguish between reality and media, the mirror was once our reality but now the mirror makes our reality.


print :

Broadcast:

E-media:

John Berger

John Berger is an art critic, novelist, painter and author.Berger published an infuential book based on a BBC television series called "In Ways Of Seeing". Berger observes that men act as woman appear. Men look at women , whilst woman watch themselves being looked at.Berger argues that in european art from the Renaissance onwards woman were depicted as being aware of being seen by a 'male' spectator.

Broadcast:

e-media:http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze08.html

Print: