Artefact Analysis

Artefact Analysis

Order Description
Your task is to analyse a chosen media representation (social media, newspapers, the Internet, Television, Music, Art & other forms of media) of adolescents in Australian society.

critically discuss what this tells us about how these young people are depicted in a specific example and how this depiction may influence their learning in a secondary school setting and the implications it can have for the teaching of adolescents.
The social context: How is the artefact constructed? Who is the author? What “authority” does the author have? What messages or perspectives (e.g indigenous, multicultural, feminist) are contained within artefact? How accurate a portrayal of young people do you think that this artefact is? Is the artefact being used to promote, educate or warn? Are young people stereotyped by and through this artefact or does it challenge the mainstream discourse? Is the image or representation part of a marketing strategy?

Relating it to schooling: The second part of the analysis should relate what you have discovered about the representation of adolescents back to schooling. Refer to academic texts to help understand this. How does the portrayal of young people effect what we do in the classroom? How might this type of media representation impact directly on adolescent learning, or the conditions for adolescent learning? How might this media representation influence your pedagogical practices in a secondary setting? How can we avoid the media stereotyping of adolescents impacting on our relationships when we are in our classroom?