Postman (1982) - Youth Representations

• Postman (1982) conducted his studies on media representations of the youth
• Postman conducted his studies on media representations of the youth in 1982
• Postman (1982) suggested that the development of entertainment media from the 1950's has had an effect on 'childhood' as a stage in life
• Postman (1982) discussed the ways that children are prematurely sexualised in media portrayals & how it creates a World where adults and children share the same tastes
• Postman (1982) uses the example of how girls & boys wore similar clothing to adults to show how adults and children are sharing similar interests on self image due to the media prematurely sexualising the children
• Although Postman's (1982) study came out before mainstream use of the Internet, it does show how sociological ideas about the media representations of children