Analyse the ways in which the media represent one group of people that you have studied

I would like you all to start to write an essay drawing all the work we have done together. The PP about exam guidance on Section B is now on Learnzone and you all have notes.


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I want you to answer this question: Analyse the ways in which the media represent one group of people that you have studied


I would like to see planning for this essay as well as a complete essay by next Friday so I am expecting an incredibbly high level response:


1) I want to see a plan/mind map using this structure that encorporates the four guided questions:


a) (Historic) How does contemporary representation compare with that of the past?


Contemporaray representation of youths is actually not that dis-similar of that of the past, a quote from Plato, 4th century, for example;
'What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders,; they disobey their parents. they ignore the law. They riot in the streets. Their morals are decaying. what is to become of them?'  sounds like something that would be said about youths by adults today therefore proving that realistically representations have changed very little. Connations of the word 'youth' have always beens very negative and also for mainly the same reasons.
b) (contemporary; main focus) How do contemporary media represent different collective groups in different ways?


Generally it splits people into stereotypes, if you wear a hoodie, in adults eyes, you are automatically only there to cause trouble and just want to steal things and hurt people, it is never considered that you might have just been exercising or that you were just wearing general casual clothes.
In newspapers, 3 quarters of the articles wriiten about teenagers are negative and generally there are only positive when someone is decesed generally by another teenager.


c) What are the social implications of different media representations of groups of people?


Some of the effects of what is said about youths in the media are that youths start to act the way they are portrayed in the media even if they would not necessarily do it normally as they think what is the point in being the complete oppsite of how they are portayed in the media when they are going to be seen as 'yobs' and 'thugs' no matter what they do.


d) To what extent is human identity increasingly ‘mediated’ ?


Any big event no matter where in the world it happens can be global knowledge in simply a matter of hours.Turkle 1998 said that the internet is the perfect place to create several identities of the self and this is very true you can choose the way you are portrayed to other people and you can even pretend to be someone your not or someone you aspire to be.


e) Conclusion; summary, the future and your own opinion
You must embed theory into this essay appropriately and refer to at least two different media 
All the support you need should be on my blog and/or Learnzone