Analysis of DR CAGES

To analyse how people stereotype, we used the anagram DR CAGES. For my analysis of one point of DR CAGES, I chose the A, Age. Specifically, i chose to focus on how teenagers are stereotyped in media. In the following medias, we can see teenagers stereotyped however in the last media , we can see a counter typical view towards teenagers in the media:

We can see from this screenshot from the independent's website, that there is no good stories about teenagers or life as a teenager. We can see that they only report of the very unlikely stories to grab readers attention and to present teenagers in a very negative light.





In the film American Pie, we can see teenagers misrepresented yet again. Teenagers are represented as sex obsessed freaks that are only driven by their sex drive and want nothing more out of life. To a normal viewer, this shows teenagers in a bad light as the stereotype only represents less than 50% of all teenagers yet in the film everyone is presented this way.

Finally , teenagers are stereotyped as thugs and savages within the BBC 1 show Casualty. Whenever teenagers appear in the show, they are always about to harm someone or try to kill them. This presents teenagers in a terrible light as it presents all teenagers in hoodies as murderers and killers, when in fact a tint percentage of teenagers are convicted as killers and murderers.

However, one counter typical media text representing teenagers would be the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off:




















In the film, teenagers are no stereotyped in the typical ways as thugs, drug addicted and murderers. Teenagers are depicted as light hearted , joyful people rather than crazed killers wielding knives and guns . This may be due to the fact that the film released before the stereotype of teenagers became more popular however it is still a counter typical form of media of teenagers.