Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
How do the dominant representation of teenagers reflect their collective identity
What is identity? to me it is the set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group, to others it may be different.there are many different types of social groups out there for teenagers. in which i presume that People tend to make a pre-judgement of teenagers because of what they hear in the day to day news, or any other media conventions. Throughout this essay i will elaborate on the dominant representation of teenagers; and how this effects their identity.
The representations of teenagers are different when it comes down to TV show and the news. British TV shows which the target audience is for teenagers for example the popular TV shows like Skins and Misfits, have an obscene amount of drugs, sex and smoking in them. These TV shows show what the average day to day things teenagers do on their spare time, this then generalizes the stereotypical things that teenagers do.
Whereas, in the news teenagers are scene quite in a negative perception due to the fact that that mostly are on the news
for negative reasons. For example on BBC news 'Mark Easton' wrote an article on teenage 'Rebels' and he stated 'Adolescents are increasingly turning their noses up at drugs, booze and fags, with consumption by young people the lowest at almost any time since we started measuring these things.'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19786264. this is the one of many article that one of the most popular news agencies shown about teenagers in a negative manner.
However, in the brighter note teenagers are not always represented as 'rebels' or in a negative manner, the few TV shows which do show a more representable side to teenagers such as 'Glee' which is a very popular TV show in 'America'. this TV show shows a group of diverse teenagers sticking up for each other in the daily battles on being in secondary school. This TV show firstly shows them attending school compared to the British TV Show 'Misfits' which are a group of kids which are a group of teenagers in community service.
This comes to my other argument, that sometimes it feels that all the TV show that the British culture is showing look as if they are condoning teenagers to rebel. i know that it is for entertainment but i believe this is what creates stereotypes in our society. To conclude i believe that the representation towards teenagers on their collective identity can be questioned, due to the fact that all teenagers do have their own identity; and that is it OK for people to stereotype teenagers just because on what they see in the TV.
What is identity? to me it is the set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group, to others it may be different.there are many different types of social groups out there for teenagers. in which i presume that People tend to make a pre-judgement of teenagers because of what they hear in the day to day news, or any other media conventions. Throughout this essay i will elaborate on the dominant representation of teenagers; and how this effects their identity.
The representations of teenagers are different when it comes down to TV show and the news. British TV shows which the target audience is for teenagers for example the popular TV shows like Skins and Misfits, have an obscene amount of drugs, sex and smoking in them. These TV shows show what the average day to day things teenagers do on their spare time, this then generalizes the stereotypical things that teenagers do.
Whereas, in the news teenagers are scene quite in a negative perception due to the fact that that mostly are on the news
for negative reasons. For example on BBC news 'Mark Easton' wrote an article on teenage 'Rebels' and he stated 'Adolescents are increasingly turning their noses up at drugs, booze and fags, with consumption by young people the lowest at almost any time since we started measuring these things.'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19786264. this is the one of many article that one of the most popular news agencies shown about teenagers in a negative manner.
However, in the brighter note teenagers are not always represented as 'rebels' or in a negative manner, the few TV shows which do show a more representable side to teenagers such as 'Glee' which is a very popular TV show in 'America'. this TV show shows a group of diverse teenagers sticking up for each other in the daily battles on being in secondary school. This TV show firstly shows them attending school compared to the British TV Show 'Misfits' which are a group of kids which are a group of teenagers in community service.
This comes to my other argument, that sometimes it feels that all the TV show that the British culture is showing look as if they are condoning teenagers to rebel. i know that it is for entertainment but i believe this is what creates stereotypes in our society. To conclude i believe that the representation towards teenagers on their collective identity can be questioned, due to the fact that all teenagers do have their own identity; and that is it OK for people to stereotype teenagers just because on what they see in the TV.
Monday, 24 September 2012
How do the dominant representation of teenagers reflect their collective identity? (tv)
Negative Side: Tv shows
Tv in genral represents Teenagers in quite a negative way, for example tv shows such as Skins which is a quite commonly watched tv show, Have drugs, sex, and viloence in them.
http://www.e4.com/skins/
Negative side: BBC News
On 4th june 2012 bbc news wrote an article on teenage pregnancy the title was 'London teen pregnancies hit record low'
NHS has quoted 'Free condoms have helped teenage pregnancies in the capital reach a record low, NHS London has said' and also said in the same article
"In the last year more than 50,000 condoms have been handed out across the capital," NHS London said. and, The number of pregnancies among under-18s fell from 1,158 in the same period in 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18321569
Postive side: Tv show
Glee is quite a postive representation of teenagers because firstly they all attend school, and it shows diversity and a range of diffrent characters which all have diffrent personalities.
Negative side: Films (Easy A)
Is about a clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing. Also in the film the main character 'Olive' agrees to fake a tryst with her openly gay classmate so people will think he’s straight and stop picking on him. Once again word spreads that she’s “easy,” and she starts making a business out of faking sex for the sake of others, while ruining her reputation in the process.
This films shows a negative side to teenagers because it has innaporpriate scenes and shows the negative side to teenagers throughout the film.
Negative side/postive: BBC News (2010)
Michelle Roberts wrote un article on under-18 ban cut smoking rates and said Teenage smoking rates in England have dropped since the legal age for buying cigarettes rose from 16 to 18, research by University College London suggests.
He found out that
Researchers surveyed more than 1,000 teenagers aged 16 and 17 before and after the age rise in October 2007.
Smoking rates in this age group dropped significantly, from 24% before the law change to about 17% after it. Smoking rates in over 18s remained unchanged.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11001599
Negative Side: Tv shows
Tv in genral represents Teenagers in quite a negative way, for example tv shows such as Skins which is a quite commonly watched tv show, Have drugs, sex, and viloence in them.
http://www.e4.com/skins/
Negative side: BBC News
On 4th june 2012 bbc news wrote an article on teenage pregnancy the title was 'London teen pregnancies hit record low'
NHS has quoted 'Free condoms have helped teenage pregnancies in the capital reach a record low, NHS London has said' and also said in the same article
"In the last year more than 50,000 condoms have been handed out across the capital," NHS London said. and, The number of pregnancies among under-18s fell from 1,158 in the same period in 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18321569
Postive side: Tv show
Glee is quite a postive representation of teenagers because firstly they all attend school, and it shows diversity and a range of diffrent characters which all have diffrent personalities.
Negative side: Films (Easy A)
Is about a clean-cut high school student relies on the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing. Also in the film the main character 'Olive' agrees to fake a tryst with her openly gay classmate so people will think he’s straight and stop picking on him. Once again word spreads that she’s “easy,” and she starts making a business out of faking sex for the sake of others, while ruining her reputation in the process.
This films shows a negative side to teenagers because it has innaporpriate scenes and shows the negative side to teenagers throughout the film.Negative side/postive: BBC News (2010)
Michelle Roberts wrote un article on under-18 ban cut smoking rates and said Teenage smoking rates in England have dropped since the legal age for buying cigarettes rose from 16 to 18, research by University College London suggests.
He found out that
Researchers surveyed more than 1,000 teenagers aged 16 and 17 before and after the age rise in October 2007.
Smoking rates in this age group dropped significantly, from 24% before the law change to about 17% after it. Smoking rates in over 18s remained unchanged.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11001599
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Explain the role played by media in the construction of collective identity.
Media plays a huge part in the construction of collective identity; for example youth are represented through the media a various different types of ways such as the movie kidulthood, this shows youth in a bad stereotypical manner, therefore this plays a huge part in society. Furthermore Youth are also represented in a negative manner for example if a youth is wearing a hoodie they would automatically stereotyped because of there collective identity and how they are portrayed in the media. Therefore this shows media plays a huge role on how society takes particulate thing.
However youths are not always portrayed negatively in the media, sometimes they do tend to show the better side of them; for instance when the results are there; if the younger generation which attend school do pass the news picks up on and say a positive things.
Media can be useful, and change the view of a type of group such as, The disability; the reason why i chose that particular group is because of the para Olympics, this actually showed a positive way in how us as a society view the disability. It showed them to be strong no vulnerable and enthusiastic; wear as as a society as a whole the disability was viewed in a different manner quite opposite to what i said above. therefore this shows media can put a light on a subject.
on the other hand media can do the complete opposite and create a stereotype on a particular group such as 'Muslims', for example after the 9/11 Muslims were on the news for quite some while and were in most negative manner, this created quite a big stereotype about this particular group. They were mostly in the news which society tends to watch and this made the 'Muslims' quite an easy stereotype. I personally believe that media can make society change there mind very fast. I also believe media can control peoples mind because it is the only place where we get our news.
Media is not all negative; because without it we would not know what is going on around the world. Media can help people for example 'YouTube' 'Kony' this was quite recently made and people knew about it in just in a few days it got millions of views and it raised awareness about what is going on.
Coming back to the youths collective identity is played in the media mostly in a negative way such as teenagers throughout the television is usually negative- with violence, drugs and sex. i thing the more you see these types of TV shows/films come on the more you actually fall in the trap. Of (stereotype).
Also, you could say that TV shows could be the reason why they go through this particular gender, because they think its ok since it is on there TV everyday. TV shows such as Bad education, Misfits and many more shows aggression and a negative outline in teenagers them selves, it has students bullying teachers. and students bullying other students; this could show kids that its OK to bully people. there fore what i am trying to argue is that collective identity plays a huge part in society and media. and negative TV shows can make it seem OK when it is not.
To conclude, i think that media plays a huge role in collective identity. And in particular groups such as Teenagers, religions/race/skin and the disability all are affected by the negative and positive in the media. I personally think it is mostly negative because society as a whole want entrainment, so that is what media does; it entertains the viewing public.
Media plays a huge part in the construction of collective identity; for example youth are represented through the media a various different types of ways such as the movie kidulthood, this shows youth in a bad stereotypical manner, therefore this plays a huge part in society. Furthermore Youth are also represented in a negative manner for example if a youth is wearing a hoodie they would automatically stereotyped because of there collective identity and how they are portrayed in the media. Therefore this shows media plays a huge role on how society takes particulate thing.
However youths are not always portrayed negatively in the media, sometimes they do tend to show the better side of them; for instance when the results are there; if the younger generation which attend school do pass the news picks up on and say a positive things.
Media can be useful, and change the view of a type of group such as, The disability; the reason why i chose that particular group is because of the para Olympics, this actually showed a positive way in how us as a society view the disability. It showed them to be strong no vulnerable and enthusiastic; wear as as a society as a whole the disability was viewed in a different manner quite opposite to what i said above. therefore this shows media can put a light on a subject.
on the other hand media can do the complete opposite and create a stereotype on a particular group such as 'Muslims', for example after the 9/11 Muslims were on the news for quite some while and were in most negative manner, this created quite a big stereotype about this particular group. They were mostly in the news which society tends to watch and this made the 'Muslims' quite an easy stereotype. I personally believe that media can make society change there mind very fast. I also believe media can control peoples mind because it is the only place where we get our news.
Media is not all negative; because without it we would not know what is going on around the world. Media can help people for example 'YouTube' 'Kony' this was quite recently made and people knew about it in just in a few days it got millions of views and it raised awareness about what is going on.
Coming back to the youths collective identity is played in the media mostly in a negative way such as teenagers throughout the television is usually negative- with violence, drugs and sex. i thing the more you see these types of TV shows/films come on the more you actually fall in the trap. Of (stereotype).
Also, you could say that TV shows could be the reason why they go through this particular gender, because they think its ok since it is on there TV everyday. TV shows such as Bad education, Misfits and many more shows aggression and a negative outline in teenagers them selves, it has students bullying teachers. and students bullying other students; this could show kids that its OK to bully people. there fore what i am trying to argue is that collective identity plays a huge part in society and media. and negative TV shows can make it seem OK when it is not.
To conclude, i think that media plays a huge role in collective identity. And in particular groups such as Teenagers, religions/race/skin and the disability all are affected by the negative and positive in the media. I personally think it is mostly negative because society as a whole want entrainment, so that is what media does; it entertains the viewing public.
Monday, 17 September 2012
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13th descember trip
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presemtation of your project
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350 synopis/tratment of the main project
a breakdown of estimated running time equipment producyion caost location artists desighn etc
storyboard
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other homework due wesday disability essay collective identy
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mediamagazine10
ly957mp
13th descember trip
homework next monday
presemtation of your project
a title for short films and trailers
350 synopis/tratment of the main project
a breakdown of estimated running time equipment producyion caost location artists desighn etc
storyboard
Look on blog
other homework due wesday disability essay collective identy
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