Media and Popular Culture

This is a group activity where young people develop advertisements and experience presenting a sales pitch.

This activity explores male and female stereotypes used in soap operas and popular TV culture and
promotes critical debate about the ways that women and men are portrayed.

This is an icebreaker that develops young people’s negotiation skills and practises reaching consensus whilst looking at the things most important to them.

This explores the lifestyle promoted in music videos and considers the messages behind the music and overt and covert advertising.

This is an activity to explore the role of brand characters in advertising and marketing food to children.

This exercise explores the differences between the advertising of commercial products and lifestyle causes. It can be facilitated as a quick version in one session, or developed over several weeks into a bigger project.

This exercise explores the idea of persuasive language and looks at the influences that words have on our decisions to buy things.

This exercise considers the use of facts and opinions in advertisements and the influences they have on consumer behaviour.

This is exercise promotes confidence and increases self-esteem by using advertising methods to identify positive personal qualities.

This is a good introductory exercise to encourage young people to reflect on the power of the media and the messages that are given about sex and relationships.