Media Representations of Youth

Cards (3)

  • Sociological Research showed that media represented the youth as a time of freedom & prosperity in the 1950's and 1960's
  • More recent media representations of youth see then as the problem for society
  • The Youth in modern media representations are seen as a threat to society as they deviate from society's norms & values (ideas of binge-drinking, drug-taking & Knife Crime)