principles of management
Dawn Suwanie Tan
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Media Power and Ethics
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Introduction
The lives of Manhattan’s teenage elite creates a paradigm for female teenagers to follow (Lancel Joseph, 2013)
One of CW Television Network’s hit television series of six seasons, Gossip Girl has created an image of the ideal life for the current Generation Y.
Wealth, fame and power; three things mankind has sought after from generation to generation. A life of luxury is a closet full of chic designer wear, a garage with an Audi and other such material wealth. Fame is being part of the elite society and setting trends with that fame. Power is the knowledge that you can influence others as well as get anything you want with that power.
Films and television dramas mostly targeting the teenage audience increasingly shows us the stereotyping that is present in schools and sometimes, though exaggerated, is very close to home. It reinforces the cliques that we see today in high schools and colleges. Films like The Breakfast Club (1985), Clueless (1995) and Mean Girls (2004), always portray a consistent image of high schools and the preps and jocks with all their wealth, fame and power are always the people everyone wants to be or at least, be a part of that clique. They practically control the world; their world that is.
We dream about being just like these trust fund kids with everything in the world at their fingertips. It is an ideal life that young teenage girls, especially, fall prey to and moulds their minds and shapes what is going on in colleges and schools all over the world.
The Show
It is a glittering showcase of upper class Manhattan. The privileged prep school teens on Manhattan 's Upper East Side first learn that Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) is back, from her self-imposed exile to boarding school, the way they learn all the important news in their lives -- from the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive
PTDipComm18
Media Power and Ethics
S9490139A
Introduction
The lives of Manhattan’s teenage elite creates a paradigm for female teenagers to follow (Lancel Joseph, 2013)
One of CW Television Network’s hit television series of six seasons, Gossip Girl has created an image of the ideal life for the current Generation Y.
Wealth, fame and power; three things mankind has sought after from generation to generation. A life of luxury is a closet full of chic designer wear, a garage with an Audi and other such material wealth. Fame is being part of the elite society and setting trends with that fame. Power is the knowledge that you can influence others as well as get anything you want with that power.
Films and television dramas mostly targeting the teenage audience increasingly shows us the stereotyping that is present in schools and sometimes, though exaggerated, is very close to home. It reinforces the cliques that we see today in high schools and colleges. Films like The Breakfast Club (1985), Clueless (1995) and Mean Girls (2004), always portray a consistent image of high schools and the preps and jocks with all their wealth, fame and power are always the people everyone wants to be or at least, be a part of that clique. They practically control the world; their world that is.
We dream about being just like these trust fund kids with everything in the world at their fingertips. It is an ideal life that young teenage girls, especially, fall prey to and moulds their minds and shapes what is going on in colleges and schools all over the world.
The Show
It is a glittering showcase of upper class Manhattan. The privileged prep school teens on Manhattan 's Upper East Side first learn that Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) is back, from her self-imposed exile to boarding school, the way they learn all the important news in their lives -- from the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive
References: Douglas Main, LiveScience Staff Writer | July 09, 2013 08:49pm ET http://www.livescience.com/38061-millennials-generation-y.html