Representation of Youth

Case Study

'Hoodies, louts, scum': how

media demonizes teenagers
http://

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/
home-news/hoodies-louts-scum-h
ow-media-demonises-teenagers-1
643964.html
http://

www.growinggiving.org.uk/latestnews/young-people-held-back-by-n
egative-stereotypes-report

Representation
1. Who is being represented? Name the social group
2. How are they being represented? Are they stereotypical?
3. Is it an accurate representation?
4. Is the representation positive or negative?
5. Who created this representation? Organisation/company
6. For what purpose was this representation constructed?
What is it trying to achieve?
7. Who is the target audience?
8. How will the target audience respond? How will they
read this text?
9. How will the social group being represented respond?
How will they read this text?
10.How has this representation been constructed? Mise-enscene etc

Negative stereotypes of
youth

Do
Do aa mini
mini textual
textual
analysis
analysis of
of the
the film
film
poster
poster thinking
thinking about:
about:
Conventions
Conventions
Representation
Representation of
of age
age
(colours,
(colours, non-verbal
non-verbal
codes
codes etc)
etc)

POSITIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF YOUTH

http://

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/th
is-britain/behind-the-stereotype
s-the-shocking-truth-about-teena
gers-421295.html
https://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cKp
vwlSGOI

Applying Youth Representation to

your BBC Three programme

Negative Representation Of
Youth

Teenagers are being represented.

They are being represented in a bad way for example it says

Figures show more than half of the stories about teenage
boys in national and regional newspapers in the past year
(4,374 out of 8,629) were about crime.

Its not accurate. (My Opinion).

The independent.

The purpose it to show that youth stereotypes are true and

you should believe what people say about how bad they are.

This targets males and females aged around 30 50 years

old and classes C & D in the socio economic table.

Teenagers would respond negatively and completely

disagree with the article.

http
://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hoodies-loutsscum-how-media-demonises-teenagers-1643964.html

Positive Representation Of
Youth

Teenagers are being represented.

They are being represented in a good way. For example it

says Believe it or not, not every single teenager around my
age goes around beating up people and smashing up cars.

Its accurate. (My Opinion).

Independent Article

The purpose it to show that youth stereotypes are not true

and you should not believe what people say.

Target audience would be teenagers and people who think

badly of teenagers.

Teenagers would respond in a positive way. People who

think badly might respond good or bad.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/behind-the
-stereotypes-the-shocking-truth-about-teenagers-421295.html