Another key feature of your answer in the exam needs to be recognition of the future. How will this collective identity go on to be represented?
The representation of teenage youth will go on to demonise this collective identity through the use of negative and unrealistic interpretations of their behaviours. This in turn will continue to have the same effect on the audiences, intimidating both older and even youth of the same age presented, making them "afraid" of teenage youth, through the misleading representations provided by the mass media.
Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds)
We represent ourselves through social networking internet sites, such as facebook, and youtube. Facebook is limited in the way that the site is formatted, as you can only display certain information about yourself and create status'. This is safer. Youtube is a little more dangerous as you can upload videos of yourself for anyone to watch and comment on, depending on your security level on the site, which can restrict who sees them. The videos can be used to share your experiences with family from the other side of the world. Media synergy is created through sharing youtube videos on facebook.
Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?
It is adults who create these programmes in which teenagers are represented badly and bias as the adults are over exaggerating the situations that the teenagers are put in ,and their reactions and behaviour to these situations creating the overall unruly attitude of teenagers, and as a result has teenagers acting up to these scenarios, generating fear across both adult, and further teen audiences.
Use Buckingham's theory to extend your point further...
David Buckingham's the death of childhood With teens viewing these representations and acting up to the bad behaviours to that of the characters, we can see the theory of David Buckingham coming into play. Teenagers acting up to these "dehumanised" characters is ruining their innocence, and adding to the death of childhood, with adults allowing younger and younger children to watch such programmes of over exaggerated representations.
What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?
What are the implications of this?Young people are in control of the way their collective identity is represented through social networking sites as they are in control of what they write on the internet, making vulgar comments on status' and "liking" derogatory facebook groups. Arguments are blown out of all proportion on facebook, with comments being read with the wrong context, making an ordinary comment, sound nasty through a misinterpretation.
What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?
Teenagers now, who are misinterpreted and dehumanised will later on be the ones in charge of representations of teenagers in the future. It is up to them how they will represent teens later on, however the unruly teen makes for big viewing numbers, and they may feel that they as teenagers were misconstrued badly, so why not the next generation?
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