Collective Identity: Lesson One

COLLECTIVE IDENTITY: LESSON ONE

REPRESENTION OF YOUTH AND YOUTH CULTURE

How is youth represented in the media?

Dangerous, Violent, Thug ,Lazy, Idiots 

How youth culture is represented in TV programme?

Reckless, violent, depressive, bitchy, Depressive, Careless 

How is youth Culture represented in the news?

Violent, dangerous, wild, careless, males: council estates, chavs. 

How youth culture is represented in films?

Violent, romantic, depressive, dramatic, naïve, sexually active, uncultured

How youth culture is represented in social media?

Adults, violent, stupid, indie, exsopsive  

Do young people perceive representation of youth in the same ways as parents and adults?

*Yes and no as some representations of a particular group of youths could be different to how we as teens see them and as adults see them.  But adults view the youths of today differently to how they were as youths because of their generation ideologies differing from ours.

ABOUT THE EXAM

• Media and collective identity is one out of two questions that you will be able to answer in your exam. 

• You choose either one question on COLLECTIVE IDENITY or POST MODERNISM.

• MEDIA AND COLLECTIVE IDENITY WHAT WE WILL BE STUDYING:

• Representation of youth and youth culture in media

• Study the relevant theorist and apply the theorist to the texts studied

• 4 AREAS ARE VITAL.

• How do the conotempary media represent nation, religion and ethnic/social implications of different media representations compare to previous texts 

• What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people

• To what extent is human identity increasingly medicated? 

MUST refer to the following areas throughout your essay:

                                                                                        Historical representation

                                                                                        Contemporary (Main focus area)

                                                                                        Future representation 

A contemporary media text is classified 5 years from the exam date 

AT LEAST TWO different media texts/ forms in your essay film- good for historical/ contemporary references.

TV

PRESS                                                                               (Good for historical contemporary)

TV NEWS 

SOCIAL MEDIA: Good for future/ contemporary references

REPRESENATIONS OF YOUTH IN THE MEDIA

OUR FOCUS POINT: ‘The representations of youth in the media is complex and repetitive, depending on who and how the media is represented so the audience depends on how consumes perceive in the society’

TO VALIDATE OUR ARGUMENT:

1. Who produces the representation?

2. The media form used for the representation (TV, Film, Social Media, News, Press) 

3. The target audience for the older representation: young, actual age, parent, older non- parent, OAPS.

PRESS: London riots 2011 (Classed as contemporary)

Brighton beach riots Mods Vs Rockers 1964 ( Historical)

TV News: Current offairs and Anne Magvine Murdered By Will Cornick Stabbing in the classroom

FILMS: Fish tank 2009, Quadrophina (1979)

TV: Geordieshore, Inbetweeners, MIC (Made in Chelsea) 

Social Media: Facebook and blogs (Future)

You must refer to theory and theories that relate to and back up your points and argument. 

Analyse the ways in which the media represents any one group of people that you have studied.

With reference to anyone group of people that you have studied, discuss how their identity has been ‘Medicated’ 

Analyse the ways in which the media represent groups of people.

“The media do not construct collective identity: They merely reflect it’