Presentation Evaluation

My summer research project was on; how does representation of teenagers in e-media such as Facebook and twitter reinforce the negative stereotypes and create moral panic to the public? The reason i have chosen to do this topic is because i have an interest in why teenagers are represented so negatively most the time and how this creates moral panic to the public as this is a big issue and i want to do research into this topic finding out more about it in deep. I believe that the research I had done on my summer project topic went very well as it contributed to my powerpoint presentation. I had put a lot of effort into researching different types of negative stereotypes of teenagers and how they are represented on the media. I had also read some articles that would help me gain more knowledge about my topic which helped me to explain my topic well in front of the class. I also went into more deeper research researching why teenagers cause moral panic. I believe i had also made my presentation look really nice as i had included a lot of images that had showed examples of what i was saying and i didn't put to much information on the slides as i wanted to speak about it myself

On the other hand I also believe that I let myself down as I panicked on the day I was giving my presentation as due to this I wasn't able to explain and talk about my topic properly which confused everyone.For my presentation I don't think I used enough hand gestures or enough eye contact. but because I'm not used to presenting in front of the class, with more experience I will have more confidence to do more actions and speak with a better flow.

summer research presentation

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-hR61JI4HyVOWwwZU8wN2VBTGs/edit?usp=sharing

powerpoint feedback

WWW: - excellent use of images and effects
             - good information of theory's given.
             - very well designed slides
             - very good presented
             - good images examples

EBI:      - more confidence
             - image/rehearse 
             - better timing
             - better explanation of theory
                   

We have abandoned our children to the internet

Young people are addicted to a virtual world that is designed to keep them hooked with little care for collateral damage

A year ago I walked into my kitchen to find half a dozen teenagers there, each one engrossed with their own private screen in silence. I realised it had been months since I'd seen a teenager without a computer or smartphone in their hand. I decided there and then to make a film on the subject, the beginning of a year-long journey that took me from the fibre-optic cables in the sewers of London to spending endless, unedifying hours in bedrooms of teenage boys as they watched porn.

Fashion 'too scared to innovate with tech', says ex Top-shop marketing chief

Justin Cooke says that despite fashion week campaigns, many brands are still taking too long to exploit social media, personalisation and the power of data.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/16/london-fashion-week-technology-justin-cooke

"One of the first things I pioneered at Top shop was creating the first ever live customisation of the catwalk. This technology allowed viewers to change the colour of a look coming down the runway which kept them on the site for longer," says Cooke. "But perhaps more importantly you get real time insights from your customers of what shapes and colours they love the most which is very powerful." this is something said by the top shop models about the catwalk they had. Shes saying that the technology allows the audience to change the colour of the image which attracts them

I believe With technology fast becoming one of the fundamental pillars of the bi-annual fashion event, the competition is on for designers and brands to bring a touch of digital to their shows. This season will see Top shop partner with the Chirp app, which allows users to share content via sound waves  Clements Beriberi  meanwhile, announced an entirely digital presentation to coincide with the launch of their new website.

Ambitious plans by the British Fashion Council include live streaming multiple catwalk shows, for the first time, directly to the official Twitter account and giving London commuters their fashion fix via a weekly #Fashion Friday news bulletin on underground platform screens - all designed to open up an exclusive industry event to the public.

 
As the new collections of some of the world's best known designers are unveiled in the coming days, coverage of the event will inevitably focus on the buzz created on Twitter and across social media platforms. So has technology finally become cool in the fashion world? "Both industries thrive on being the first to market," explains Cooke. "It's all about developing trends and predicting what people want and I think it marries very well together."

Teenager Streotypes

Teenagers are frequently alienated in the media to the point that it has become a real problem in our society. This is affecting the togetherness of our communities and creating unfair stereotypes. Do all teens fit the stereotypes that the media creates?

You could argue that teenagers only have themselves to blame for these negative stereotypes, for example the London Riots in 2011 where it was well renowned that young people were the main offenders. This generalisation by the media has had serious effects on communities such as the one in Farnham Common. In Farnham Common I believe that there is a fairly tight knit community, however, since the London Riots I believe that there has been a change in attitude towards teenagers. We all saw the Riots on our television screens and it seems to have had a big effect on the passive viewers among the community. I spoke to a 17 year old that lives in Farnham Common and he told me “the attitude towards teenagers has turned very negative since the riots. I feel that the older generation in the village have become intimidated and feel vulnerable when I walk past them. This is very upsetting for me and my friends as we mean no harm.” This saddening verdict conveys how our community is tearing itself apart with intimidation, just because the media has displayed teenagers in a negative way. This really shows how the media has control over our society and can manipulate us to believe things that may be over-exaggerated or perhaps false.

Teenagers are also stereotyped as being lazy, when in fact most teenagers juggle part-time jobs and their education. These unfair stereotypes effect job opportunities for unemployed teenagers, so it is no wonder that in the period July-September 2012, 963,000 young people aged 16-24 were unemployed. This astonishing amount of unemployment in teenagers is actually down by 49,000 as the economy recovers from the recession. However, it is still a very powerful statistic. I would bet that most of these young people, especially aged 16, do not have a job because of the ridiculously low minimum wage that the government has put in place. It currently stands at £3.68 for 16 year olds and an unemployed 16 year old told me, “I think that the minimum wage is very low”, however, she then added, “as teenagers, we do not have to pay for many things such as bills, so I can understand why the minimum wage gets higher as you get older”. I do not agree with this as some teenagers do live alone and require a higher wage to survive. Higher paid jobs are hard to come by because of a lack of qualifications available at the age of 16 and of course, the negative media representation they are given. As I walk around the shops in the Farnham Common Village, I do not see a lot of teenagers working there; I see an overwhelming amount of older people. I understand that they will be more experienced than younger people, but if no-one gives you a chance, how do you gain experience?

Moral panic

‘Moral panic’ is a sociological concept that seeks to explain a particular type of overreaction to a perceived social problem. Developed in the turbulent political and 
intellectual context of the late 1960s, its principal aim was to expose the processes 
involved in creating concern about a social problem; concern that bore little relationship 
to the reality of the problem, but nevertheless provided the basis for a shift in social or 
legal codes. The concept has since enjoyed a great deal of analytical purchase, 
circumscribing it to be one of the few sociological ideas that have withstood the test of 
time (see Innes, 2005). However, much of its application has relied upon ritually 
reproducing the ‘stages’ implied in the now canonized opening paragraph of Stanley 
Cohen’s (1972) seminal study, Folk Devils and Moral Panics(Critcher, 2006: 10; see 
also Young, 2009).

This simple headline shows the escalation of fear or misunderstanding of illegal immigrants. The word ‘stop’ is a call to action and implies that something needs to be done. ‘Boat people’ is the label which implies the threat of illegal immigration and it ran in a national newspaper, purportedly endorsed by the PM and used to bring to the attention of the voting public an issue which is considered to be of grave concern. In reality, a study conducted by UQ research group says there were only 1033 boat people out of 48,700 illegal immigrants in Australia.

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