Rationale
'Investigating the
extent that social media representation have on identity and self-perception of
16-19 year olds'
For
my extended project I have decided to look at the representations theory within
social media. I will research and investigate into why teenagers represent
themselves in a certain way. Within my project it will also uncover how these
representations create stereotypes from social media to reality for both males
and females.
The
idea of looking into the social media representations of teenagers interested
me because I find it interesting how social media can create stereotypes from
how both men and women are representing themselves on the social networking
sites creating expectations from the opposite genders in the real world. The
stereotypes created by us on social media escalates onto things like the news, advertisements
and television programmes which could be even more interesting to look into as
this could give more information out on why certain representations are made. I
think it is really important to pick something I am interested in finding out
about as I will enjoy doing project and will be willing to find out much more
information.
For
this project I will be looking deeply into the representation theory within
media as well as how both genders are portrayed within media and social media
and create a questionnaire for people to answer on why the act a certain way on
social media.
This
project will benefit me heading towards the career path I want to go down as it
is closely related to events and media career and understanding how these
representations work could broaden my knowledge about the things I already know
about the subject, this would also be a good subject for me to choose as a lot
of free time is spent on social media and could use my own social media within
the investigation making the results more reliable. Also like previously mentioned
when expanding my knowledge within the selected area, it would help me
understand why people from certain background and lifestyles
see things from either a positive or a negative point of view.
The
fact that I am looking into social media related with the representations
theory within media which is the way in which media represents the real world
which helps relate this to my technical learning of level 3 creative and
digital media, as it is important to understand how things are going to be seen
through someone else’s eyes as well as from people with different background
and lifestyles. As well as it helping me
understand the media concept of it would help me go more in depth with my
technical learning with knowing how they will be portrayed from thorough
research.
