Representation Of Teenagers In The Media Essay

Adolescence is the stage between puberty and adulthood. This occurs over the teen years and is a process of growing to maturity, everyone has their own way of experiencing it. The representation of teenagers on media is usually shown incorrectly and places unrealistic expectations on the teens when they are at the most vulnerable stage in their life. Teens magazine will be giving teens the opportunity to speak up and say how they think they’re represented in the media. The media portrays teenagers in many ways which can be shown as realistic or unrealistic representations and can give misleading thoughts about the young adults. The accurate representations of teenagers, ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ by Melina Marchetta, is a novel about a half Australian half Italian teenage girl who is struggling to cope with her teenage existence because of her cultural …show more content…
‘Looking for Alibrandi’ shows that teenagers change under the effects of friendships, relationships, cultural relationships and parental pressure. These effects turned Josie into a different girl at the end of the novel than what she was at the beginning. This represents teenagers correctly as adolescence is a time of change and is influenced by the same things that Josie was influenced by. ‘Riverdale’ portrays teenagers like they are adults and are involved in many things unsuitable for people their age. ‘Riverdale’ indicates that teens are involved in things like drug dealing, solving murders and having over dramatized problems that they wouldn’t usually have. This shows an unrealistic representation and is giving the viewers an incorrect view on teenagers. These texts are made to draw in people’s attention because of the way they view teenagers. Even if they are shown incorrectly at times, people still love to watch