Sket

Examining the Past

The label “teenager” has been in use since WW2

It has had connotations of rebellion, violence and breakthrough. 

Many of these are explored in Matt Wolf’s documentary “Teenage” (2014)

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=39768

The representation of teenagers by adults – consistent from generation to generation over the centuries (Plato c 400BC, and other sources in the lesson 5 post)

Similarly the representations of teenagers by themselves or by sympathetic adults (“Quadrophenia” (1979), “This is England” (2006))

Media arc – Dan Gardner – author of “Risk: the science and politics of fear” (2009) – only certain representations will be made by the media depending on what fits with their existing narratives about that group / event, this relates to the representations of British Youth because they are used in a collective identity and based on studies from one group of people the judgement falls on the whole nation of British Youths.

Stanley Cohen, “Folk Devils and Moral Panics” (1972), looked at the representations in groups of people. 

He looked at representations of the clashes between mods and rockers in 1965, such as 'Battle of Bristol' and 'Living for Kicks' and 'Wild Ones Invade'

His main points we that folk devil was people or groups that mainstreams society and moral panic is an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order. 
An event or social phenomenon occurs that "mainstream society regards as deviant".
The media decide if it is worthy of dramatic coverage.
The media represention constructs the event as violent and dangerous.
It might initially be reported in a range of news outlets,


The moral panic of recent years has tapped into the public's basic fears for their safety and the safety of society to come in the years.

He predicted that…

What does the Barnardo's advert demonstrate? 

Representation of British Youth

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024486/UK-RIOTS-2011-British-youths-unpleasant-violent-world.html

In this article British youth is represented as "the most unpleasant and violent in the world". This immediately makes the reader look at the youth population in a negative light. The words portray them as violent and arrogant with no means to change themselves. British youths are shown in a collective group as dangerous and unpleasant based on the london riots that happened in 2011. He uses a minority of youth to act as a microcosom of his results. 'The rioting is only the extreme end of the spectrum of bad behaviour be British youth".