21/01/11

Ideology= set of beliefs and goals of a social or political group that explain or justify the group's decisions and behaviour.

Zeitgeist= something happening in a moment in time. The spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation

Youth in 50’s

v     Television appearing

v     Dressed similar

v     Music movement associate with.

v     First time youth rebelled against conformity

Youth in 60’s

v     Rockers

v     Imitating idols

v     Mod’s- The Who

v     Labels like Fred Perry

Youth in 70’s

v     Punk

v     Sex Pistols

v     Anger had grown

v     The Clash

v     Imitating idols

Youth in 80’s

v     Mod link for example- Fred Perry, skin heads

v     Standing out- over exaggerated

Youth Now

v     They are not into one particular music genre like the other era’s

v     More into clothes labels as categorization for example Super dry and Jack Wills

Youth in Films

v     1955- Rebel Without A Cause (James Dean)

v     1953- The Wild One

v     1971- Clockwork Orange (violent and was band due to copycat killings)

v     1979- Quadrophenia (Sting in it)

v     2006 (based in 1983)- This is England

v     1996- Trainspotting

v     2002-City of God (all actors and the director were actually from the slums)

Work to do= make a powerpoint to put on blogs with examples of 3 of the following categories: Rock n roll, punk, mod, new romantics, telly boys, skin heads. Find 2 of the following for each category either artists, films, TV programmes. Also what are the messages of these?

"What does the development of the internet mean for identity?"

"What does the development of the internet mean for identity?"

As the internet has grown and developed more and more people are using the internet to show the world who they are through websites such as Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, Blogger and many more. More people are joining these networks as they want to express their individuality to everyone, which is making being yourself more acceptable in society now. These networks are also a good way to help people express who they are, for example a housewife can become a singer by posting videos of herself singing, a cleaner can show their dance moves through videos, a receptionist can be a song writer/poet by writing poetry on their blog and more. The Internet has now become a new culture and community where people can talk with anyone from all over the world. Youtube has been said to be the "webcam and screen community" as people will record videos to show their identity and people will reply via videos and comments. This helps to show what other people think about who they are and their identity. When people create these they gain self awareness that they could be talking to anyone in the world and one day they will watch their own video back and you then begin to be in a self reflective mood.

As people become very aware of these things they may decide to change and alter their identity so that they will be liked by other people. This then means that people begin to lose their identity as they are changing themselves so that other people will like them. It is then a competition to be seen by everyone and get as many views/friends as possible, meaning people are creating this false identity just to be seen and not liked for who you are. These false idenitys lead to an identity crisis, if someone finds out your fake they may get annoyed as the have admired the person you are. People should not play with their identity, change their history and create stories as you will soon lose who the real you is.

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