YouTube – Choose A Different Ending: start
The anti-knife crime campaign becomes interactive… Do you think this is an effective way of tackling the knife crime problems in the UK?? YouTube – Choose A Different Ending: start.
View ArticleTeenagers and technology: ‘I’d rather give up my kidney than my phone’| Life...
Interesting article on teens and preferred methods of communication “I’d rather,” deadpans Philippa Grogan, 16, “give up, like, a kidney than my phone. How did you manage before? Carrier pigeons?...
View ArticleCharlie Brooker’s Screen burn: Amish: The World’s Squarest Teenagers |...
Great article from Charlie Brooker about the Channel 4 show Amish: The World’s Squarest Teenagers. Teenagers love to exaggerate. Specifically, they love to exaggerate about how mad and lawless their...
View ArticleIt’s Sexy A-Levels!
Congratulations to those of you who collected excellent results today – they were very impressive across all three of the subjects. If you’ve taken the time off from celebrating to look at the media,...
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Tweeting teens can handle public life | Alice Marwick and Danah Boyd |...
Good article on the different ways teenagers use Twitter: The Press Complaints Commission in the UK has now ruled that there is no “reasonable expectation” of privacy on Twitter. With this decision and...
View ArticleDavid Cameron backs proposals tackling sexualisation of children | Society |...
David Cameron backs proposals tackling sexualisation of children | Society | The Guardian. The Conservative Government starts to crack down on advertising & images aimed at influencing children.
View ArticleMiss Bimbo: The new computer game where girls order breast implants, do crash...
Miss Bimbo: The new computer game where girls order breast implants, do crash diets and find billionaire boyfriends | Mail Online. Outcry from parents at the online Miss Bimbo game, with its messages...
View Article‘Bingeing’ girls make Britain among worst in Europe for teenage drinking –...
‘Bingeing’ girls make Britain among worst in Europe for teenage drinking – Telegraph. The British Press attacking teenage girls again
View ArticleGender and culture
A few interesting gender items popped up on the Film Studies For Free Twitter feed yesterday: Louise Wilks ‘”Boys don’t like girls for funniness”: Raunch Culture and the British Tween Film’ – Download...
View ArticleComment is free readers on … the sexualisation of girls | The people’s panel...
This article could be useful for those A2 Media students doing case studies related to the representation and / or sexualisation of young girls. I was first scouted at the age of 14 by one of the...
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