Questions

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?
Young people Nowadays have the stereotype of being rather rebellious and destructive. This bad reputation will probably continue to be exaggerated. Old people have said that they have become scared of young people due to the way they are represented in the media.       


Where are the representations of you? Where do you express yourself? (Facebook, personal blog, youtube, online worlds) 
Young people are able to express themselves nowadays in numerous ways, through talking, Art, Music, Social life, facebook, dance, sports, hobbies, personality, by posting youtube videos and blogs etc. Facebook pages tell your friends information that you might not have known otherwise like your relationship status, music tastes, film tastes, interests and hobbies. Teenagers can also express themselves visually by wearing different clothes. For example, by wearing a top that features one of their favourate bands, gigs etc. This is then taken away when teens have to wear uniform, they wear uniform because authority feel that by wearing their own clothes they will live up to the stereotypical teen in the media.


Who is currently in control of the modes of production for how young people are represented?
It's the producers who are in control of how the youth of today are portrayed in the media. This therefore means that its adults who make the programs according to how they view childhood. Their representations may not be accurate to the time period as they grew up with different views on young people.  
David Buckingham for example argues that childhood is a social construction is not given or fixed, it is always changing.


What examples of young people being in control of the construction of the way in which their collective identity is represented can you find?
The popular, youth aimed drama 'Skins' was, in a few episodes, written by young people. This laid back, realistic form of production, caused a lot of controversy due to the content of drugs, violence, sex and swearing.  
What are the implications of this?




What could happen in the future in terms of who is in control of representations? What evidence can you find that this could develop?