Raby, “A Tangle of Discourses” (2002)

                   

ARGUMENT

The name of the text I will be blogging about today is; A Tangle of Discourses, and it is written by Rebecca C. Raby. Raby argues that discourse on teenagers has its own key elements and is disrupted by class, race, gender, and sexuality. Many people say that discourse on teenagers doesn’t portray how it used to be. Well, back then it isn’t clearly defined on how it is for everyone because everyone’s teenage years is different than everyone else's. Discourse and an adolescent have its own insight because it is displayed as “Experimenting, challenging and exploring in ways that may challenge….” (Pg. 22). For example, it can be typical for certain behaviors that not everyone will agree with, or not everyone will feel is truthful. If one asks themselves what is the purpose of being a rebel because this is what teenagers love. To them, it helps them to experiment or explore, but to some teenagers that isn’t the way the want to do those things. Discourse on teenagers cannot be a reflection based on other people, because it is different for everyone and how they experience or challenge themselves as teenagers. Instead of trying to replicate someone else’s teenage years. However, even though people may be aware to being rebellion or just teenagers being a tangle in discourse it does mean that anyone has less influence on adolescents.

            One question I had after reading this article is why do so many people honestly think they can replicate their teenage years on their own teenagers? I watch it on movies, and when I walk through stores and just overhear what they are talking about. Also, I feel like our parents never really told us about their rebellious years as teenagers, but when we get a lot older, they finally tell us. I feel like if they told us when we were going through the exact moment or something similar, they would say about what they did to make us feel better. 

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Media Matters Blog Post

 Facebook was the first social media that I tried, it was more to see what it was about at first. Then I got so invested in the social media part of Facebook that I wanted to add everyone I could think of even people I didn’t know. This shaped me as a teenager because it made me become more nosey and annoying kind of person. Also, I thought it would help me become more noticeable and famous because I was somewhat popular in middle school.

It was more than just drama, it was who I was in high school or just as a teenager. Drama was the best thing that I had until I realized it caused me to be more of a bad friend than just liking to talk to people. It wasn’t a good idea to be involved in the drama because it left me walking in the hallways alone. But also, it left me as a better person in the end because now I know how to deal with different situations even if they aren’t mine.

Media for me was not just Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and etc. It was also dating websites. This media is called Plenty of Fish, it’s an online site that didn’t shape me into not a very good person. This site was the worst thing I ever did at first because it was a big influence on who I became as a person and what I did on my actions. Based on those choices I wasn’t aware of who I was hurting, and it was myself. Also, I was changing into a person I wasn’t away of, and it wasn’t who I really was. In the end, I found the right person to be with who influences me in the right way.

Bogad, “Framing Youth”

REFLECTION

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When I was reading “Framing Youth” by Bogad. I start to reflect when I was a teenager in high school I felt like I experienced many things that I have thought about when reading this. The one thing that stuck out so far that I can connect to my teenager life is, “We come to know youth as incomplete, in-transition, finding themselves, hormone-driven, emotional, inexperienced, and always in opposition to the adults in their lives” (pg. 1). This quote that was in the begin is a huge representation of myself completely. When I was in high school, I was going through multiple experiences like; transitioning to high school, trying to find who I am and who I was. Most of all I was involved in my parents’ divorce when I was a junior. I felt emotional, hormone -driven and incomplete when this timing was happening.  I feel like Bogad wanted her readers to understand, “Any “truth” to the experience of adolescence” (pg. 10) I feel like the overall theme is adolescence. This connects to my life a lot because of the “truth” to experience adolescence. When I told what my parents and other people experienced when they were teenagers. The fact is we experience everything differently, even when I was a teenager I experienced the emotional side of things, but I grew up mentally and acting more like I was in my twenties taking care of stuff I thought I wasn't supposed to do as a teen.  

A video I love is called "Changing the World, One Word at a Time!" I’m going to be showing this tomorrow in class for my media artifact, so if you guys want to get a head start on what you think about it go ahead. This video connects with a lot of text we are talking about in our classes and how teenagers are represented.

My question for this post is; why do people expect teenagers to act the same way they did when they were teenagers? What I mean by that is a lot of people say when I was a teenager I never did that or back when I was a teen I wasn’t able to do this or was able to this. It’s like people are comparing teenagers to themselves when they shouldn’t.

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Croteau, “Media and Ideology”

Today I will be talking about a text that I read, and how I’m going to express my thoughts about how David Croteau has written Media and Ideology.                                                      

What I saw first when I was reading this article is, “An ideology is basically a system of meaning that helps define and explain the world and that makes value judgments about that world. Ideology is related to concepts such as worldview, belief system, and values……” (pg. 159-160). This quote is what David wants to start off with by explaining what ideology is and how we examine media as its own ideology. Also, how media, is being used in a different way like world views, values and etc... this is a huge part of ideologies, and why David wanted to make an understanding of what ideology is so, he can explain why media is connected to it.

The next quote I came across is, “…Different ideological perspectives, representing different interests with unequal power, engage in a kind of struggle within media text” (pg. 161). When I read this, I feel like the meaning was people have different understandings for various areas that cause a struggle to solve the problem. This quote is relevant because many individuals think media doesn’t portray reality. This shows one of the areas that media reflects on real life with a twist like NESN or even E-News.

The last quote I felt that stood out was, “… The fear is that media images normalize specific social relations, making certain ways of behaving seem unexceptional. If media texts can normalize behaviors, they can also set limits on the range of acceptable ideas. The ideological work lies in the pattern within media text” (pg. 163). This means that there are unacceptable behaviors because social relations are falsifying the actual meaning of the way media is portrayed. Also, how media is influenced by ideological and missing the realistic meaning behind the message that are in media images.

One question I had after reading this article is why does the media make up stories that aren’t true or even more so is twisting the facts?

When I am looking on social media or watching TV about the News or E News, I also ask myself is it entirely real or is some parts made up. Also, I feel like my boyfriend’s parents always believe everything that’s on the TV because that is what it just easier or that is the norm of believing what’s being said. I feel like media has a huge part on portraying messages that can be flipped and make people think that it is true based on what they are used to watching, listening to, or looking on the internet.

              

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Media Ideology, Croteau, “Media and Ideology”