Adolescents And Media Analysis

Introduction

Media has changed over the years, but what has remained the same is the influence media has over adolescents. Everything from television, the internet, even printed media plays a major role in how adolescent view them. According to Walsh and Ward (2008) state that media may play a powerful role in socializing adolescents, making their portrayals important to understand (p.133). Media places stigma on social norms of what society thinks of adolescent and most importantly how they are seen by peers. I will be focusing on the television aspect of media publication. TV accounts for a majority of adolescent time. Adolescents are estimated to spend approximately three hours per day watching television, resulting in their spending

This can be great but adolescent sometimes construct false views from too much TV. Especially now a days the shows are much different than those of the 90’s. The show that I will be looking at is the renowned Beverly Hills 90210 and the newer version of the same show 90210. If there’s a 20 year gap between the two shows then there going to be some stark differences in the areas of appearance, sexuality, and substance use/abuse. The teens of the 1990’s and the teen in the 2008 airing, are worlds apart but dealing with the same issues in different ways.

Discussion The 1990’s version of Beverly Hills 90210 and the 2008 version of the show are very different but have some similarities. Each show portrays the same concept that has representation fitting to the generation. For Beverley Hills 90210 and the CW’s

Since things are so easier to come by new drugs, new bullies, new technological advances that make it easier to please and hurt people, the temptation is way more relevant and harder to resist. The will do your best dims with each passing day as more and more generation come along and everyone likes to have things the fast and easy way. Unlike in the 90’s where you had to work for the guy or girl put down some even charm to win over someone’s heart now all you need is a to send an emoji or do the bare minimum. In the 90’s a fake ID had needed to legit to get into the hippest club like Brenda and Kelly needed to do, unlike Naomi who just paid off the bouncer and walked right in like she owned the place. The generational gap of 20 years has given new ways to how media influence the adolescent. It’s like the 90’s gave more influential influence in their television shows and now a day the influence is more drama filled and a show that instills those useful life lessons value is hard to come by. Now there is more importance on appearance. Adolescents live for the next trend so much so that they cannot even keep up with them and make fun of those that don’t have the latest fashion. More and more adolescent are engaging in sexual acts and