00's Notes

Chavs in Tracksuits
BNP Nationalists
Emos, Punks and Goths

McFly
Sclub 7
Indie/Folk Music
Digital/Remix

BNP, anti european 
9/11 - the war on terror begins
London Riots
Gay Marriage, pop stars commercialising on "Gay"

Smart Technology

Social Media

Online Bullying/Suicide

Neck Nominations

Throughout the 00's youth was portrayed very negatively through newpapers and films, however the introduction of social network sites made it possible for youth to portray themselved in a more realistic and true way by what they wrote/uploaded.

70's Notes and Paragraph

Death of the 60s

Disintegration of the 60s dream of peace and love-

Symbolised by death of Martin Luther King-1968

An era of disorder of

Social-

Political- height of the cold war, government/trade union disagreement, trade union control a lot of the workers, strikes, power cuts

Economic- unemployment

Cultural- race riots, immigration creating ethnic/cultural division

Oil crisis- OPEC-energy crisis

A division ideologically and politically

The baby boom from before now the youth, large population increase, need more jobs, mass unemployment

The youth become more distant from authority, from the trade union, youth movements in fashion, lifestyle, music-Punk angry, confrontational, violent

Ska- musical, fashion, lifestyle movement, reggae, punk, multicultural music came together

Film examples-

The Railway Children- nostalgia to a past era

Bugsy Malone- nostalgia, surreal

A Clockwork Orange- A dystopian Britain, but really a representation of current period

Quadrophenia- gangs, though is set in 60s with mods and rockers

Scum- youth in prison

80's Notes and Paragraph

Recovery from the 70s
Economic boom
Explosion of self-interest
Greed
Cold war come to conclusion,
Triumph of capital economy- collapse of communism

Conservative- Thatcher
political strength, work & prosper
Democratic conservative mandate

increase in inequality between rich and poor

FILMS-

Withnail and I

Gregory's Girl- not angry violent youth, drifting away from society

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

My Beautiful Laundrette- underclass of society

Collective Identity

“Media simply represents collective identity, they don’t create it.” How far do you agree with this statement? Make reference to one or more groups in you answer.

Over the last 100 years, medias such as newspapers, films and more recently social medias, have overall had a representation of youth as negative. I will look at these last 100 years with case studies from this range of different medias in relation, also, to the theories of Stanley Hall, Osgerby and Hebdige. Hall said, in 1904, said that youth need excitement which was sought through drink, drugs, sex and criminal activity, whilst Osgerby, 1998 and Hebdige, 1988, both talked of dual stereotyping of youth with both ‘youth as fun’ and ‘youth as trouble makers’, with Osgerby saying ‘the portrayal of youth is not entirely pessimistic.’