LISTEN UP!!!!

Talking Back

Teens these days represent themselves in many ways. This website that i have been looking over has youth media all over the site! It is a great way for the youth today to express themselves and a way to "TALK BACK". Kids have a lot to say when they have the chance to express themselves. I watched some videos, and they were great. some of the videos were ones that adluts would make, i feel. I watched one video that was called "Blinde Date" and it was a boy who was blind who was a real jerk and was taking this girl out on a date, he was mean to her parents and when they go to the movie theater, she left. At first I thought it was making fun on the Blind, when in actuality, it was stating that people are people, blind, deaf, black, white, or purple(lol). He was a real jerk and thats why the girl left him.
People in today's society really put down teenagers, saying they are dumb and silly and dark and immature, thoughout the course, and the readinds we have done, i have come to realize that teens are normal people and everyone is going to be, is, or was a teenager at one point in their lives. Teens can express themselves through the media and use this access to show what they are really doing in life and how they think. Every single teen in different.

Final Project Outline

Cliques and Subgroups (accourding to music influences)
Lauren Geraghty and Claire Petersen


1. Opening with a breif clip (mean girls cafeteria scene)

2. SUBGROUPS:

a. Hippies

b.Punk Rockers

c. Hip Hop

d. Pop

3. connections to class literature: Prep, Trisha Rose, Hine, Facebook and Myspace piece

4. Pictures of teens and what they look like, how they act, what are they really listening to?

5. Why do they conform? attitudes toward life due to influences from music.

6. Handout-Trivia on who's who and why teens are conforming into these music influenced groups



We are going to focus on 4 groups:

Hippies: Hemp, pot/drugs, laid back attitude, peace

Punk Rockers: Tattoos, Dark/Black, angry, emo

Hip Hop: Money, Alcohol, women/sex

Pop: Angelic, virginity, preppy/pink, purity

FACEBOOK AND MYSPACE?

In the Jenkins piece, there is a discussion about myspace and facebook and why it is important. Myspace and facebook are online social networks where individuals create profiles and link to other "friends" sharing their interests, identity and tastes. There are photos that are uploaded and people can view these photos if they are "friends" there are numerous communication tools, people can communicate via messages, writing on walls or commenting on status or pictures. The controversy is that these portals put youths at risk of sexual pretators and pedophiles. Teens are representing themselves through these portals as sex fiends and there is aspects of drug use and alcohol use when they are not legal. it has become grounds of much controversy!

Check this video out guys! it is great, wicked funny! relates perfectly to the facebook issue...

http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrFdOz1Mj8Q

The other article, about the Horrace Mann Issue, isputting teachers jobs at risk over teens giving them a bad rap on the online social networks like facebook and myspace. In one issue, students made fun of a woman's issue group making up a fake group "men's issues group" stating that women belong in the kitchen. Students all over the world are feeding into the online social networking hype and i can say that i do use facebook, and have seen some of the bad things that it can do to distort your brain, and when teens are growing, it is easy for them to feed into certian things, facebook and myspace are not going to change, but could potentially cahnge the youth of america as we know it!