Giroux

Professor Giroux is a
Canadian Scholar and
cultural critic who
explored youth and
media studies.

Giroux
argues
that
the
representations of teenagers is
put into an empty category
which is governed by adults and
explores how teenagers are
viewed badly and mistreated
in the media because adults
dont understand whats its like
to be a youth of this generation,
and because as the responsible
adults they want to portray they
use
misrepresentations
of
teenagers as a scapegoat to

This
ideological
struggle between
youth and adults
means teenagers
are unable to put
forward their own
individual
and
collective needs

Show how these ideas relate to our case studies

here:
The London Riots images of youth being violent were repeated
and even Photoshopped which was unfair and unnecessary.
Mods and Rockers were falsely represented in the newspaper
following the Brighton Beach incident where reporters paid them to
fight and then wrote things such as Wild Ones Invade Seaside 97
arrests (Daily Mirror 1964)