ImageTeens vid

Using those interviews with local senior citizens and other media content I've put together a new short film on (perceptions of) teens today; blocked from YouTube because of some of the content, but viewable at http://vimeo.com/37516712

Needed further editing ideally, but the time wasn't available. 

Scripting teens in 'Enders+Skins: scriptwriters interviewed

See http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/jan/24/teens-tv-language for insight on how TV scriptwriters script teen dialogues (interviews with Eastenders and Skins scriptwriters)

Global population when YOU were born?

Interesting tool at The Guardian which lets you put in any d.o.b. after 1951 to get stats on the UK and wolrd population at that time. You can access it here.
Here's the data from 1.1.52, almost 60 years ago:

Simpsons and age

A brief, slightly rude, short vid made by a Media student elsewhere; features use of the term 'gay' as an insult, something we've discussed repeatedly in Media Studies - more usefully it nicely encapsulates some of the negative ways older people tend to be represented; The Simpsons exists as a satire of the way TV and film operate.

Useful Resources

See various articles at http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-role.htm