Promt Question 2

What has been the impact of the internet in media production?

MOOSIC

Through the internet music has been revolutionized as you can join fan pages and blogs on your favourite artists and through this you can establish connections with other fans. This then links with Benedict Anderson"s theory on 'Imagined Community' as it enables the fans to feel part of a community to which they can identity with. These people will never meet physically however will feel a part of the 'imaginary community'. 

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?

Essay Plan

How does contemporary representation compare to different time periods?

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INTRODUCTION

PARAGRAPH 1
St. Trinians- Representation of females (rebellion) Scene example including micro elements to back up point.
Example- Shot of women dressed the same to show a united front as they attack men.

PARAGRAPH 2
My summer of love- Representation of girls nowadays - still rebellion. Scene example with micro elements to back up and how they differ or match the way women are represented.  Include point about Judith Butler and her theory on performability.

Reasearch: 1970s and 2009

In 1970s Britain, political awareness increased resulting in the economic liberation of women and the beginning of environmental movement with the hippie culture in full flow from the latter half of the 1960s. In the late 1970s Thatcherism began with the Conservative Party coming into power, Margaret Thatcher being the first ever female Priminister in Britain.   

Immigration was greatly restricted by the government in the 1970s, but had not stopped all together. Over 80,000 immigrants settled in the UK; mainly through gaining work permits or obtaining persmission to join relatives.  

Rising oil prices caused stagflation and unemployment began to rise but was still relatively low. In 1972 The number of people unemployed and out of work and claiming benefit had risen above one million for the first time since the 1930s. To be exact, the figure was 1,023,583. 

In the 1960s and 70s, crime rates began to rise dramatically with offenses such as burglary and car thefts peaking in the early 1990s. 

In 2009 the total number of people that arrived to live in the UK was 567,000. Meaning the popuation increased by 196,000 after 371,000 people had left the country. 

In 2009, unemployment dropped to the lowest it has ever been for 14 years; making the total number of unemployed 2.47 million. 

The clip from Minder portrays an exaggerated view of the crime situation in Britain at that time. The fact that they have chosen black people to play the criminals reveals the racial inequality present in the 1970s. They have depicted Black people as a very agressive section of society. Opptunities for black people at the time were rather unequal hence the reason they were forced to act so irrationally and desperately. However the way in which they put this across in the program displays prejudice. 

The way in which the characters act in Misfits corresponds with the huge surge of crime at the time it was made. especially in the area it was filmed.