Mònica Figueras Maz

Invisible, Stereotyped and Filtered by Adults: The Image of Young People in the Catalan News Media

The study on which this article is based aims to quantify the presence and image of young people in leading Catalan news media. Analysis shows that youngsters have a very low visibility factor in the Catalan media, except in the case of sports news. The presence of young people is significantly greater when dealing with themes such as violence, disasters and education. As regards the roles that young people play in news stories, results show an adult-centric vision. Young people figure greatly when dealing with issues such as violence but when structural problems such as education, work and emancipation are addressed, an external and institutional vision is adopted.

Juventud y discurso mediático: el tratamiento periodístico de las personas jóvenes en los medios de Cataluña

Abstract:This article presents the results of further investigation: the analysis of the presence of young people in the highest rated media in Catalonia and how this media made their discourse about this collective on the basis of journalistic sources used, the analysis of the headlines, and the narrators attitude from a methodology that applies qualitative and quantitative techniques. The article also includes the journalists thinking about press coverage of young people, on the one hand, and professionals working with young people, on the other, through the answers obtained with qualitative techniques.