GirouxProfessor Giroux is a

Canadian Scholar and cultural critic who

explored youth and media studies.

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

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 don’t understand what’s it’s 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

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)