Friday, 7 March 2014

Media and Collective Identity: YOUTH

Use the theories below to make comments on how the media presents YOUTH in three films and three newspaper clips


THEORY 

Stanley Hall:  STRESS! teenage years are full of storm and stress: identity confusion
Ogesby:         CONFUSION! teenagers present a mixed metaphor of fun/danger/consumers
Hebdige:        STYLE!  youth is fun/youth is trouble   reject hegemony through style
Acland:          REVOLT! youth is anti social -needs to be managed by society nanny state
Gerbner:        FEAR!  society is frightened by the media portrayal of youth/cultivates this portrayal 
Giroux:          REFLECTS! representations reflect adult view/society view not reality
Cohen:           PANIC! media creates a moral panic about the 'youth of today'.'folk devils'

Rebel without a Cause  1956 : family/peer pressure/parternal failures create problems

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