Joe Parker A2

Below you will find an essay that i did on Twitter about how big of a platform its becoming but also how influential it is on media as a whole in today's society. Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, known as "tweets." These messages were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7 th , 2017, the limit was doubled to 280 characters for all languages except Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity. In 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. Twitter...

In class recently we have been looking at the affect the rise of online TV has has on the traditional TV shows. I specifically looked at Eastenders the BBC program. EastEnders is a British soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since 1985. Set in Albert Square in the East End of London in the fictional Borough of Walford, the programme follows the stories of local residents and their families as they go about their daily lives. Initially there were two 30-minute episodes per week but since 2001 episodes have been broadcast every weekday apart from Wednesdays. Within eight months of the show's launch, it reached the number-one spot in BARB's TV ratings and has consistently remained among the top-rated TV programmes in Britain. In 2013, the average audience share for an episode was around 30 per cent. Today, EastEnders remains a significant programme in terms of the BBC's success and audience share, and also in the history of ...

Eastenders is a British soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since 1985. Set in Albert Square in the East End of London in the fictional Borough of Walford, the programme follows the stories of local residents and their families as they go about their daily lives. Initially there were two 30-minute episodes per week but since 2001 episodes have been broadcast every weekday apart from Wednesdays. Within eight months of the show's launch, it reached the number-one spot in BARB's TV ratings and has consistently remained among the top-rated TV programmes in Britain. In 2013, the average audience share for an episode was around 30 per cent. Today, EastEnders remains a significant programme in terms of the BBC's success and audience share, and also in the history of British television drama, tackling many dilemmas that are considered to be controversial and taboo issues in British culture and social life previously unseen on Unite...

In class we were given the essay question  Discuss the extent to which the distribution and consumption of media have been transformed by the internet? down below I will copy in my answer to this question. TV has been in ever changing industry since it began in the 1920’s and it has recently been making even bigger strides with new channels being added on a regular basis as well as the introduction of smart TV meaning you can now access the internet through your TV. As well as being able to access the internet through TV’s the internet has had a massive impact on the amount of TV people watch because of how big sites like YouTube where you can watch videos for free and now subscription packages like Netflix and Amazon Prime becoming much more popular. With the popularity of the internet getting bigger the traditional TV channels like BBC, ITV and Chanel 4 have had to start using the internet to their advantage as well. All of these big name channels now have online platforms ...

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Overshadowed Overshadowed is a TV program aired by BBC three on the BBC I player and it follows the life of Imogene who is a vlogger. It is an innovative drama. It is based on the award winning play about Imogene the vlogger whose life spirals out of control. The innovative drama has lots of youth culture issues in it including, parental issues, relationship issues and the main issue being anorexia. In the series you meet a lot of Imogene’s friend. There are a few main characters that we see in Overshadowed. The main character is obviously Imogene but then there is the person that’s always with her who is the voice in her head/ the anorexia and its stops her from eating. In the first two episodes the audience really starts to grasp an idea of the main issues being betrayed in overshadowed. The first issues that we see is that of the pressure put on young teenage girls by nowadays society about them having to look and feel a certain way and the fact they and don’t fit in if they don...

The Tv series that i decided to do my presentation for a youth culture TV series was Bad Education. Bad Education by joe parker on Scribd

The inbetweeners 2 Neil, Will and Simon receive an e-mail from Jay asking them to join him in Australia whilst on his gap year, in the e-mail he promises them that Australia is “epic bants”. With their lives now rather dull compared to their happy school days and legendary lads holiday, it's an offer they can't refuse. Once again, they put growing up and working ahead to the future on-hold, and embark on a backpacking holiday of a lifetime in an awful car, inspired by Peter Andre's 'Mysterious Girl'. Will soon finds himself battling with the lads to do something cultural, whilst they focus their attention on drinking, girls, and annoying fellow travellers. The difference between what will wants to do and what the rest of the gang want to do is apparent throughout the entire film. For example when the boys leave to go traveling and they follow the bus that Katy is one at the bus station will is trying to fit in with the other travellers but Neil then comes over an...

Giroux Theory (1997) Representation of youth Giroux views show how the youth are mistreated within media. Describing them as an empty category explains that adults don’t understand what it is like to be a youth in this generation. Therefore they just but their own ideas into this empty space of what they believe their representation is. The effects Media involving just adults therefore greatly effects these representations. The adults do not want their generation to look bad therefore uses teenagers as a scapegoat. The role of media representations in society By looking at this theory we are able to see that the representation of youth is moulded together through what adults believe and think. This then leads to uprising of stereotypes through the media and also cause moral panics. When all of this has just been created through hegemony and the media raining down their ideas.

Acland theories represents youth as being delinquent and this enhances hegemony. This is done by the ideal of ‘norm’ adult and youth behaviour. This contrasts deviant youth behaviour. Representation of media He believes that the way the media represents of young people allows the state to control them. This is known as the ‘ideology of protection’ idea that youths need to be constantly watched. Effects of these representations Acland’s theory effects the representations as the adults see youth as all being reckless and they have to keep enforcing that these actions are bad. This si to enforce the hegemony of how they should not behave when they reach adulthood. This means that there will be more negative stories about youth in the media. 

Dick Hebdige Dick Hebdige is a British media theorist and sociologist, and a Professor of Art and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work is commonly associated with the study of subcultures, and its resistance against the mainstream of society. His current research interests include media topographies, desert studies, and performative criticism. Hebdige has written extensively on contemporary art, design, media and cultural studies, on mod style. What is his theory   The Hebidge theory comes out of Dick Hebdige’s book Subculture: The meaning of style. The book focuses on the UK’S youth subcultures. Drawing from Marxist theorists, literary critics, French structuralists, and American sociologists, Hebdige presents a model for analysing youth subcultures. While Hebdige argues that each subculture undergoes the same trajectory, he outlines the individual style differences of specific subcultures, such as Teddy boys, mods, rockers, skinheads,...

Mods and rockers What are mods? Mod is a type of people that really came to the fore front of culture is the 1950’s. They were the first set of teenagers after the Second World War and were therefore the first generation with a disposable income and could afford to go out and drink and do drugs. Mods had a very iconic fashion sense that consisted of tailored suits usually based on Italian style, short slick haircuts, and they drive around on scooters like vespers and lambretta. They get a lot of their ideas from Europe. Traditionally mods were working class people living on housing estates and working in factories or coal mines. What are rockers? Rockers like mods were a subculture that got massive in the 1950’s but they were very different to mods in nearly every single way. Rockers wore biker boots, leather jackets, and jeans and traditionally rode proper motorbikes. Rockers were also working class but spent their money on different things. There was also a rivalry bet...

A taste of honey Overview A taste of honey is British TV drama that brings into account class, race, gender and sexuality as there is characters that are all very different. It is set in Salford Manchester in north west England.   Characters Jo- Jo is main character in a taste of honey. Jo is a 16 year old girl who is an illegitimate child because her parents weren’t married when she was born.  As a child Jo is very independent this is because that her mother isn’t very reliable so Jo has to look after herself in many ways. In the relationship that Jo has with her mother we see Jo betrayed as the adult in the relationship. Because of how childish the Jo’s mother is she can never afford to live in one place for a long stretch of time so as a result Jo never really has settled home for any long period of time. Helen- Helen is Jo’s mother. She is unmarried and to have child and be unmarried at that time was frowned upon. Ellen during the film is seen with a black boyfr...