Collective Identity:Lesson Two

How many texts minimum do you need to refer to in your exam?

• Two texts that you have to refer to.

To create a balanced argument what three areas do you need to refer to in your exam?

• Historical, future, contemporary

 How many questions do you answer in your exam overall?

• You answer three questions, 1 a, 1b and choose between Post-modernism or collective identity

Collective Identity: Having the same beliefs, ideologies and values.

Young people control the social media- meaning young people can and do control their own ideology.

The concept of collective identity refer to to the set of individual and the sense of belonging to a group. For the individual, the identity derived from the collective group shapes apart of his or her personal identity. Making them feel apart and integrated into society. 

David Gauntlett: 'Identity is complicated everybody thinks they have one' -Identity is complicated, on what the person has experienced.
Identity can be negative and not always positive.

Top 5 search results in google for teens in January 2015.
There is stories about teenage: Violence, Pregnancy, crime, bullying, drinking

• Representation of youth in TV are extreme 
• Representation in News
• Research of six UK newspapers of the past 10 years found that the words most commonly associated with 'teenagers", "Youth", and "Young people" were "Binge drinking", "Yobs" and "Crime"
• Bob Satchwell, executive director of the society of education said 'If teenagers looked at media coverage more widely they would see 'a much balanced picture'" with prominent positive reporting of high-achieving young people in and a level students, Olympic athletes, footballers as well as young solders who had served the UK board.
• They portrayed teenage boys as "Yobs" in the media has made boys wary of other teenagers, according to new research figures show more than half of the stories about teenage boys in national newspaper in the past year (4,374 out of 8,620) were about crime. Yobs (597) thugs (254), sick (119) feral (96)
• Other terms hoodie, louts, heartless, evil, frightening, scum, monsters, inhumane and threatening.
• The best chance of teenager had of receiving sympathetic coverage was if they died
• In the press-  A say Third they're always  or 'often' wary of teenage boys they don't know
• We can control the social media- showing a more positive representation of media.