Human Identity is how people are portrayed by media institutions to the audience,readers or consumers that they are trying to sell to. The institutions we are researching in depth are television and the press. We have decided to revolve our research around the teenage population of society and how their collective identity is portrayed to society through institutions. The television industry have to continuously make sure the images of characters within series and TV dramas are appealing to the audience, fitting in with a certain theme relating to the show, or the present day fashion. In addition to this Documentaries are clearly based on real footage ,which in some ways makes the images displayed of teenagers in the program more interesting for the audience because they would see it as a reflection of their true human identity. However producers of Documentaries can manipulate the audience by only choosing negative footage of teenagers to display. We have chosen to research how the media portrays stereotypical images of a teenager in the present day to its audience and society.
The Tv series we have chosen to research so far are Skins and Misfits. This is because we automatically thought of these programs as featuring characters that are reflecting living in as their teenage years. Also it is clear to the audience when watching these shows how distinct the representation of the negative stereotype that is increasingly attached to the teenagers human identity in todays society. We will be researching how these stereotype images are displayed,through what features and costume etc, and how they maintain the images throughout every episode of the series. our group will also do heavy research into why skins and Misfits are featured on channel four at a later time of the night , because clearly this plays a big part on the audience's thoughts about what is featured in the program, and whether the events etc are negative for an audience (especially children) to be viewing.
The press industry also creates a stereotypical human identity for teenagers of the present day. We will be using ideas such as the riots from 2011 for our case study. We will be looking at how the newspapers have chosen certain images they wanted to display to the reader, and the type of language they use to manipulate the reader to how they receive the information. We will compare how newspapers have written more about the negative impact and presence of teenagers within society today, in comparison to the way teenagers were portrayed through newspapers in the past . We may discover that their has been a dramatic increase as to the amount of information written about teenagers in newspapers today in contrast to how little was displayed about them , for example , in the 1900's. We will have to research and then conclude why we think these images are increasingly mediated in the press.
We will research how different newspapers are biased and aim their featured information at different targeted readers. We will research this because it is interesting to find out which newspapers are more likely to produce a negative human identity of teenagers and which are more likely to produce a more positive image of teenage human identity.
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