... nor have approached maturity. Hebdige (1988) also describes the youth as fun seekers and dangerous in terms of 'moral panic' in which media's portrayal of the activities of youth present them as either a threat to social stability and order or at risk. In other, words it means that youth are seen as people who are always having fun, partying and clubbing most of the time. They spend money on unnecessary things even that they do not need such as jewellery, clothes and drugs. The importance of media in the formation of youth as a social category in relation to the subcultural perspective The media "sells the way of thinking, seeing and talking about the world" (Schirato & Yell 1996: 174). People live in a media society according to Baudrillard (1983: 07). The society that we live in is constituted by the media. In addition to it Baudrillard (1983: 07), states that ...

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