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Youth Club Activities: Media and Popular Culture

4 mins read Youth Work
Vanessa Rogers suggests five activity ideas to get young people discussing the influence of the media on their lives.

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Aim This is a warm-up activity to introduce the different forms of media young people use to obtain information and their effectiveness.

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How to do it Divide the young people into two teams and hand each a sheet of flipchart paper and markers. Allow two minutes for each group to write down as many forms of media as they can recall.

Call time and invite each team to share their ideas. Now read out a list of things that young people might want to find out, asking them to place a tick by the form of media that they would be most likely to use to find out the information. You can add to these to reflect group interests.

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