xmas task 3

1.A social representation is not a quiet thing: exploring the critical potential of social representations theory

This site does not make explicit links to the representations of black youths, however it focuses on the wider context and why social representations occur and what affect it has on the social group that is being representated. This particular Source is coming from the university LSE, and as it specializes on political and social sciences this institution is a perfect and reliable source to use or counter argue.


2. Black youth on the margins

This site also looks more to wider context and how negative representartions occur in the first place, focusing on demogaphics and causes within the home and outside it also. This site will help me as it offers in depth and insightful resources in which I can counter argue the negative representations of youths extensively and effectively.


3.Channel 4 Race, Representation and the Media 2007 Research Report

This particular site will help me on various levels, as Channel 4 is partly a PSB and look at how they represent ouths and how much of this contributes. Furthermore, Channel 4 particularly target youths as part of their show, such as Hollyoaks, Inbetweeners & Skins. This report will help provide an arguement as this report is comming from the institution and not from a newspaper site.



4. Good outcomes working with black and minority ethnic children in residential
child care

'Milligan (2005) also point out that young black people grow up in a society where
media images of black people are often negative and that it is therefore no surprise
that many black children internalise such negative views about black people. Positive
black role models can help to dispel these views.'


5. 'Youth violence is not about race'


'An inability to delay gratification - whether with food, alcohol, money or sex - is becoming a hallmark of our age, reinforced by advertising and media (by the age of ten, the average British child recognises nearly 400 brand names). But while materialism and a consumer culture cannot be wished away, its impact on children can be restricted. The centre-left must govern markets in the public interest and it is right to look at advertising and its impact on young people.'

This site will help make my essay have more depth and sophistication as my aim is to make sure that my coursework includes enough wider context to help me gain a higher grade.

6.The role of the mass media in representations of age, social classs, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability

Connor (2001)'... Representation is not about the way the world is presented but how we engage in media texts, representation is therefore, just as much as auience interpretation as it is about the portrayals offered to us by the media'

7.Media Portrayal of Young People – impact and influences


'Sensationalised images of youth predominate in the media and elsewhere, and
display bias in the behaviour they report as well as the status of the children they
depict. The well-behaved, well-adjusted ‘ordinary’ child may not be newsworthy but
this does not explain the undue attention paid to negative messages about youth'

This quotation and site does not nessarily focus on the black aspect of my coursework focus but it focuses on the British aspect of it and how the British media represent youths in general.