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America’s Teenagers – Myths and Realities: Media Images, Schooling, and the Social Costs of Careless Indifferencereviewed by Rebecca Raby - 2004 Title: America’s Teenagers – Myths and Realities: Media Images, Schooling, and the Social Costs of Careless Indifference Author(s): Sharon L. Nichols, Thomas L. Good Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Mahwah, NJ ISBN: 0805848517, Pages: 264, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com Sharon L. Nichols and Thomas L. Good join a
number of recent scholars concerned with the representation of
today’s youth as problems to both themselves and the rest of
society. Covering a gamut of “trouble spots,”
from violence and drug use, to poor eating habits, Nichols and Good
sort the myths from the evidence to provide a comprehensive
overview of challenges currently facing teenagers in the United
States. The authors conclude that a variety of media
negatively and inaccurately represent youth in a way that
sensationalizes and homogenizes them. For example, while
media representations of young people suggest that their violence,
sexual activity and drug use have been increasing in recent years,
Nichols and Good draw on various statistical surveys, most
prominently the Public Agenda polls of 1997 and 1999, to indicate
that teenage involvement in each of these activities has been
decreasing.
Nichols and Good find that despite such
decreases American young people are being not only maligned, but
also ignored and neglected: “Increasingly, society is asking
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