Teenagers portrayed in the media

Introduction, I am going to research teenagers and how they are portrayed in the media. I chose this subject because i am a teenager and they are portrayed badly in the media when not all teenagers are like that so i am going to research about it.

Section 1- Television
Teenagers are portrayed as thugs and drug takers such as in the programme Skins. In Skins teenagers are potrayed badly and it show that they take drugs, have sex and fight when it isn't always true.

The inbetweeners series portrays teenagers as idiots and stupid. They do this by making them do stupid things and portray teenagers badly making them seem supid.

The simpsons portrays teenagers as bullies and thugs. They show this in the characters Jimbo Jones, Kearney, Dolph.These characters portrays teenagers badly because it makes them seem like bullies.

Sectoin 2- Films

Harry Brown potrays teenagers as criminals and murderers. They do this by them wearing hoodies and having knives, guns.This shows teenagers badly because it makes all teenagers seem violent and aggresive when most teenagers are not.

American Pie portrays teenagers as wreckless and party animals. It does this by making them go to parties and be obsessed with girls. When in most cases teenagers are not all like this and they may go to parties but not all the times.

Adulthood portrays teenagers as criminals and violent. They do this by making them wear hoodies and be intimidating and violent. This is not the case because not all teenagers are like this

Section 3- News

England riots: What's the evidence gangs were behind the riots? This BBC article suggests that the riots were to do with teenager gangs. This suggests that teenagers are violent and cause trouble and because the BBC write this people will listen to them and think all teenagers are bad because they believe everything that the news says. When this is not the case most teenagers dont go out and start trouble.



The Media doesn't show many positive articles about teenagers which means that people dont see good things about teenagers so people look badly about teenagers.

Missiles thrown at cars from Bewdley bypass bridge. This BBC article show that people will fear teenagers because of the news putting up stories like this. This portrays teenagers badly because they stereotype them suggesting that they are all like this. The news gives teenagers a bad name because it suggests there all bad and they rarely do positive articles about them.

Section 4- Conclusion

From my investigation i can conclude that the media represents teenagers badly. I think that the news portrays teenagers the worst because some people believe everything they hear on the news so it portrays people worse because they dont get to see teenagers do anything positive which isn't good. The whole of the media stereotypes teenagers to make them seem violent, aggresive and not nice people when most teenagers are nice people. I think that the media should noy portray teenagers as bad as they do.