Media Institutions create identity by representation of groups by following a fixed agenda examples include:- stereotypes,exaggeration,association,propaganda, bias and opinion. Obviously a collective identity can never really be true as its far to general. An identity created often says more about an institution than the actual group that may be portraying it. For instance: how the media portray teenagers.
There are three specific social group i am interested into looking into including:
- Teenage Mums/Pregnancy.
- Traveller Communities.
- The Dangers Of Modelling.
I have decided to focus on Teenage Mums/Pregnancy, as i believe that with this specific social group i can go into extreme dephs of how over a vast amount of years the image of teenagers in the media has encountered a dramatic change, with the help from the media most teenagers have been labelled as 'reckless,uncontrolling yobs' but why have teenagers been attacked with this vicious assumption? society seems to willingly label teenagers as 'pregnant, druggies, a achoholic or jobless' whatever teenagers are portrayed as why are all teenagers labelled with this stereotype?
Pregnant teenagers are being labelled with vicious names and the scrutiny between what should be seen as a beautiful and natural thing but concealed as unacceptable. How the media publicises teenagers to incapable and automatically assume that they will neglect their children, as the typical saying 'your just a child yourself' is held over them.
Results show that America has the highest teenage birth rate, with Mississippi being the leading state with a shocking 55/per 1,000 girls. Results have also shown that United Kingdom are not that far behind, With Manchester's 48.5% of girls under 18 conceiving.
Many states in America including; Texas are hugely religious and therefore believe in sexual abstinence. Therefore why does America have the highest teenage birth rate? something must be going wrong, and therefore suggests that there is no specific conception programmes or support for these teenage girls. For religious reasons many girls have no choice but to keep their baby down to not believing in abortion. The represenation of teenage births have grew over time as the rates grew as it has become more common for teenage girls to keep their baby.
