1. 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?
In the future teenage youth will go on to be represented as demoralized, ill mannered "louts", as they have been portrayed for the last few years. this counts for both male and female youths, women are increasingly shown to be drunken "ladettes" and as such, seem to be as violent as males. this media portrayal is causing division between social groups and even casting unnecessary fear amongst adults. There is however a growing portion of the media that aims to show youths to be the opposite of this stereotype and are breaking it by showing the good rather than the bad. Hopefully at least the future will become brighter for British youth.
2. Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, Youtube, online worlds)
Facebook and social networking sites have become a diary in the cloud for most teenagers, other sites such as myspace, twitter, and tumblr are increasingly popular and youths are expressing themselves more freely and further afield then before possible. community ranges beyond your neighborhood to the other side of the world and is able to do so at staggering rates. Youtube now has members world wide, and is easily as frequently used as TV due to the ability to tailor what you watch. Music videos, tutorials, rants, advertising and much more media types all under one website and its free....
3. Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?
Adults are mostly in control of the production of different media types, however new TV programs are including teenagers into the creation and representation of youths in their programs. For example Skins is a good example of how the producers have incorporated adults and youths to influence a more 'realistic' representation of teenagers. The oldest writer is 46 and the youngest is 18, and so this a gives a wide range of ideas. Also meaning that the average age of writers was 21.
4. 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?
There are many examples of how young people are in control of how their collective identity is constructed
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