Use the bullet points below to annotate/ identify key points from each essay

Article 1 – How youth culture in Britain has changed1. Audiences’ have become more post-modern in the construction of their

identity.2. Youth identity is an assertion of difference; a declaration of otherness.3. Youth tribes are fragmented but coherent: they take different

components and put them together.4. Technology 5. Youth culture/ youth identity is not monolithic, but fragmented.6. Technology is changing the way youths interact and shape their own

identity/ express their own identity.

Article 2 – What’s Changing for Young People?1. Young people are defining themselves through experiences/ what they

do, rather than who they are.2. Young people are creating their own communities through which they

can express/ shape their identity.3. The shift from mass media to peer-to-peer media that has been

brought about by technological development has led to a more fractured, individualistic sense of youth identity.

4. Young people are using media in a pick’n’mix way to express/ create their identity.

5. Young people’s identities are more fluid today

Use these guide questions with the other UK Tribes articles