G325 Homework -

Find specific examples of what Dave Harrison describes as the common representations of Youth in the media.

For each example, write a sentence or paragraph explaining how your example fits this representation. 

1. Youth are often represented in accordance with popular or hegemonic notions of adolescence
2. Youth are often ‘demonised’ by the mass media.
3. Youth are represented as being let down by adults
4. Youth are represented as part of a subculture
5. Alienation – youth are represented as being estranged from parts of society, particularly adult society.
6. Youth are product of the society they were born into, and often embody the faults and fears of adult society.
7. Representations of UK Youth are often nostalgic and romanticized

Put this on your G325 blogs for your double lesson next week

- Mr Lane