Introduction To My Extended Project

To what extent does the media industry play on antisocial behaviour and presentation of young people?

I have chosen to answer the question above due to the fact I believe it is an important issue that must be addressed amongst youthful societies. For years young people have been depicted by the media primarily as antisocial, and less due to successes. Throughout my investigation I will be investigating to what extent this is the case, and why this is the case anyway? I will also be investigating how the media represents these views and to what extent these could be seen as bias. I will be presenting my ideas through this blog, analysing news stories and articles of relevance off of the internet.

 

This will give a wide range view of the topic at hand including multiple viewpoints to avoid a bias investigation. In collaboration with this I will also be creating videos which I will edit and upload of myself talking about some of these articles and news stories I have seen online. I will talk about the ways the media could be seen to be bias whether that be in terms of how they represent antisocial behaviour in young people, or over representation of their successes from certain sources. I will also be giving my personal view of the information I find, and how the information from my investigation relates to the question at hand. The second big key factor I will be investigating throughout this investigation is the correlation between antisocial behaviour and the media itself, such as how the media may in fact influence antisocial behaviour in the first place, therefore leading to the negative representation of young people.

 

I will be investigating how this links with how the media then represents this to portray youthful societies as trouble makers and antisocial. Once again this information will be presented on the same blog via news articles from different tabloids and news companies as well as a variety of internet articles to avoid being bias, and to obtain a fair overview of the investigation. Furthermore I will also present the information from this side of the investigation through my videos which I will once again edit and upload onto this blog to discuss them in further detail as well as to share my personal opinion in relation to the question as a whole. My overall decision for taking up this investigation and presenting it in the way I have chosen in the first place primarily is due to my overall love for media and film making. I have always been passionate about media and wish to study a film related subject at university making this investigation highly relevant and a good form of experience to further aid me to achieve this.

 

I have always loved portrayals of media and the ways in which it can influence the audience, which is relatable here due to the fact the question at hand focusses on how the media represents the young people, and how that representation crafts the views of millions of users of media. Overall I plan to present a great investigation, hopefully proving my prediction that my findings will suggest that the media represents young people primarily as antisocial rather than successful. And I also predict that my findings will suggest that antisocial behaviour in the first place is influenced a lot by the media, therefore relating to the negative representations in which the media portray.