Teenagers - Most adults think that teenagers are all young youths who want to damage property, cause fights, noise disturbances and all they want to do is rebel against everything and everyone. Adults and other people think this because of the media. Whenever there's a story on something similar on the news or in a newspaper, its normally a teenager. This isn't always the case though, the people who are on the news are most probably from a rough area and have been brought up in a rebellious way but because of the media adults and the elderly think its the same with every teenager.
Muslims - Most Muslims, because of people like Bin Laden, are now associated with claims like being a terrorist which all come from the media, when most of them are not.
Black people - If a story about a black person being murdered or beaten up, people automatically think it was gang related. Due to the media, people think that black teenagers are trouble.
Megan, this is all true - good ideas. Can you back them up with media examples?
ReplyDeleteCan you think of examples where Dyer's theory has a POSITIVE effect?
Try to make sure that you and Sarah have independent ideas...