Youth street groups and media representations

Abstract

This document contains the final report of the study ‘Media Representations and Street Youth Groups. Analysis of fiction and non-fiction products’, derived from the research agreement between the Universitat de Barcelona and the TRANSGANG project titled ‘From stigma and stereotype to reaffirmation and resistance. Street youth groups, media and representations’. The document is organised into 6 sections, in accordance with the general objectives established in the research plan: 1) Introduction; 2) Theoretical Background; 3) Objectives; 4) Method; 5) Preliminary Findings; and 6) Conclusions. Throughout these sections we present the focus and objectives of the research conducted, placing particular emphasis on the research methods designed to explore the representations of street youth groups in fiction and non-fiction products. Lastly, in section 5 we present the preliminary findings derived from the research.