Youth reflects adult concerns (negative stories sell)
Media representation of youth does not reflect reality of youth identity
Serves the purpose of the middle class adults who produce them
Reinforces hegemony
Media representation of youth does not reflect reality of youth identity
An example of a teen drunk driver, reflecting adult concerns and generalising to all teens
An example of good GCSE results for teens, which won't be generalised to all teens as it does not serve the purpose of the middle class adults who produce them
Both texts have been taken from the newspaper, The Daily Mail
Comparison of hegemony of 40s compared with more present times:
"Cavender (1999) shows how hegemonic masculine models were constructed differently in feature films in the 1940s compared with the 1980s. This is not just a matter of the characters written into the scripts. Practice at the local level—that is, the actual face-to-face interaction of shooting the film as
an actor—ultimately constructs hegemonic masculine fantasy models at the society-wide or regional level."
(^ http://xyonline.net/sites/default/files/Connell,%20Hegemonic%20masculinity_0.pdf)
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