RELIEF ACTIVITY FOR THURS 12 MARCH

BLOG POST PROMPT. Once you have finished the work above you need to go to your blog document and spend 20 mins reflecting/discussing what we have found out so far about negative representations in the news media. Use the following to guide you:

1. Are you surprised by the way teenagers are represented in the media? Explain your answer.

I'm very surprised when the statistics are gathered and people think that teenagers are negative people. People need to understand and they will understand that teenagers have their own way of acting and people need to accept it. Telling teenagers about their life negatively will not help them at all and in cases, could lead them to act worse than before.

Overall, people need to understand that they have been teenagers before and have acted ways older people will not be impressed with what they do. This is the same with today's teenagers, people need to accept who they are and not judge them too much.

Media loves to portray teenagers in a negative way considering that older people have done much worse things but never advertise them. This is how the media capitalizes on their occupation.

2. List 3-4 headlines that your group found yesterday and for each one explain how it portrays teenagers in a negative way. (Copy and Paste these into your blog) 

TEENAGERS: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEM?:

 Finding problems with teenagers rather than the advantages.

TEENAGERS IRRITABLE BECAUSE EARLY SCHOOL HOURS: 

Identifying teenagers as lazy or unproductive.

THREE TEENS ACCUSED OF ATTACKING MEN WHO TRIED TO STOP THEM FROM HURTING DOG:

Advertising something positive as negative.

3. Write a short paragraph of 4-5 sentences discussing what you think the dangers or impact could be of teenagers being portrayed like this could be. (This is purely your opinion-no right or wrong answer here)

What I find funny about the media is not how they advertise things but how they love to dedicate their time into articles that interested people and make them believe in the articles they read. Considering the age group of people who read online, this makes them vulnerable to false information and bad beliefs. This is why people do not like teenagers because of the articles they read.

This type of negativity leaded to teenagers can leave them to be insecure about themselves because of the amount of articles directed to them negatively. Coming from a teenager, other teenagers could despise others because of the readings they have read themselves or their appearance that they represent themselves in. This is why people need to learn to accept teenagers as a normal human being, not a bad figure. 

Just because another person of the same age group does not publicly identify / portray all the teenagers.