1. Hypnotic influenceCritical approach – Objectivity

2. We focus on 3 elements  Youth and media  Interculturality  Citizenship

3. Youth and media FIRST APPROACH: VERY NEGATIVE  The public media has the tendency to identify youth as a synonym of problem, delinquency, drugs and violent suburb.  Especially related to young immigrants (prejudices)

4. Youth and media SECOND APPROACH: UNREAL Tv series as “Friends”, “Beverly Hills” etc. create an unreal vision of the youth. Parents are reassured by these fake models but at the same time youth are illuded and disilluded.

5. Youth and media  Few cases, especially in cinema, face the reality of teenagers problems.

6. Youth and media  Trainers and social workers use often such kind of movies to speak about youth trouble or youth potentialities.

7. Interculturality  No representation of interculturality in cinema or tv.  Artificial inclusion of foreigners in shows.

8. Interculturality  Interculturality is developed especially in radio and music events.

9. Interculturality  Interculturality starts to be a very important subject in schools and educational sector.

10. Citizenship  Youth is represented by media as reluctant element of representativity in politics or citizenship awareness.

11. Citizenship  Youth active citizenship moved from local to global.

12. Citizenship  Young people feel more often as citizen of the world then citizen of a single country. They act together and use new forms of communication.

13. Consequences  Because of the negative representation of youth on the media young people nowadays decide to use alternative ones to assert themselves. NEW MEDIA

14. New media  Blogs  Web radios  Social networks  Forum and newsletters  Chats  Mobile and applications  Web sites