Activities
The aim of the campaign is to improve the image of young people by increasing youth participation in the media. If frequent images of violence, drugs, anti-social behaviour and knife crime in the media cause such a negative view of youth, then increasing images of the good that young people do should go some way towards combating this negativity.
The campaign believes that fears between different groups are caused by misunderstanding, so if adults can understand the thoughts and actions of young people, the barriers will fall.
The campaign is looking at changing the Press Complaints Commission clause on discrimination, which currently neglects to mention youth.
The campaign is conducting a survey of young people's views in the West Midlands, which will be used to create a report on the issue of unfair representation in the press, which will be sent to leading politicians and media executives.
The campaign is in the process of filming a five-minute documentary, which will be shown on Community channel. Several local papers agreed to regular youth contributions, and there is the possibility of one in the Birmingham Mail.
Read more about this topic: See The Good Behind The Hood
Famous quotes containing the word activities:
“There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)
“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
—Aaron Ben-Ze’Ev, Israeli philosopher. “The Vindication of Gossip,” Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)
“Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still the most important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.”
—Elias Canetti (b. 1905)