Youth in Television have been portrayed in many different lights, anywhere from the criminal to the young at heart. With their resistance to the dominant culture, many studies have been done concerning the meaning of the political challenges to the social formation involving investigating cultural objects and media artifacts. Historically young people have fallen into distinct but dependent categories: youth-as-fun and youth-as-trouble. One might ask why any of this is pertinent to the study of …showed first 75 words of 701 total…

…showed last 75 words of 701 total…while at the same time making an extra dollar. This hegemonic approach accounts for why representations of youth groups appear as they are, by linking the representations back to the social structure, which frames and produces them. Text Used: Taylor, Lisa and Willis, Andrew. Media Studies: Texts, Institutions and Audiences. Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Massachusetts, 1999. Pg. 48-56. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Taylor, Lisa and Willis, Andrew. Media Studies: Texts, Institutions and Audiences. Blackwell Publishers Ltd. Massachusetts, 1999. Pg. 48-56