Idea we are taking forwardResearch

How youths are portrayed through different media platforms

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It affects the way society views them, and change society's expectations of them with enough exposure to a stereotype on youths.

Negative stereotypes not only affect how adults see teenagers, they influence how teenagers see themselves. The feeling that the rest of the world doesn't respect or understand you does little to encourage a positive sense of self-worth.

The media can be a powerful tool in reinforcing stereotypes

society may come to view it as a reality rather than a chosen representation.

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RESEARCH: ARTICLE LINK

I have found an article that relates really well with the topic we considering to take forward…

“Survey, commissioned by Young People Now magazine, suggests third of press articles about young people were about crime and 71% saw young people negatively”

Youth campaigners, backed by children's minister Margaret Hodge, say the young are being unfairly targeted and should not be linked automatically with anti-social behaviour.

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We decided to let some people aged 25+ to fill out a questionnaire (their view aboutYouth and their representation) and spoke through some of there explanationsHere is what they said:

“majority of the time Issues to do with youth on the news has always been a negative, which obvisley gives people a bad impression on them, a negative one”

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“the crime on the news, youth are always involved somewhere in that issue, which makes some youths appear to be violent”

“Films where young people are associating themselves with drugs, knifes, etc”They are generalising all youths by always doing thiswhich gives all youths a Different outlook.

The representation of youths is of only a minority in Britain, there are many youths that are well educated and behaved ie.youths going to university and helping out the community”

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47% of adults believe that teenagers are portrayed in the media as drug abusers, alcoholics or as participating in anti-social behaviour, while only 7% of the people surveyed believed that they are portrayed in a positive way.

The media should cover more positive stories about young people?

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Youth and Deviance

Risk factorsAssociated with youth offenders

Peer pressure

Troubledhome life

Drug misuse

Mental illness

Poor educational experience

Males are most likely than females to have committed criminal offence

Fore some Men, crime amounts to being seen as masculine(Messerschmidt,1993)

Young males have less informal control exercised in there lives (smart,1976)

Young males are more likely to be targeted by the police

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TV/ new

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NEGATIVE

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Video Games

GTA4 Centre on topics such as graphic violence, sex, violent and gory scenes, partial or full nudity, portrayal of criminal behaviour or other provocative and objectionable material.

These video games representations may have an important effect on behaviour and attitudes

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Decreased by 17 per cent

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