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 * The Affect of Digital and Print Media on Teens - Case study Home and Away- Akshat Marwah **

Home and Away is Australia’s second longest running drama, boasting 22 seasons (5090 episodes) and winning 30 Logie awards so far. It started in July 1987 by Sydney’s channel 9 network.

Shows like Home and Away portray wrong information to teenager as they show things like teenage pregnancy and bizarre relationships, which influence a lot of teenagers in their actions. Many teenagers (mostly girls) take what they see in these shows as ‘’what happens in the real world’’, and believe that it is absolutely normal.

Research into these dramas shows that a lot of the teenage pregnancy and other important issues that occur in girls have been further ‘’boosted’’ by these kinds of shows. When these kinds of shows did not exist the average teenage pregnancy rate was fairly low but since the 90’s has become considerably higher. A lot of the teenagers also idolise some of the characters that are shown in dramas and try to be like them, usually the idolised character has a negative effect on the teenager’s personality.

Show like Home and Away in some cases play a very important part of a teenagers life, but take some things to a radical extent which is wrong.

Tips on how to avoid shows like 'Home and Away':
 * Don't get under peer pressure into watchig it.
 * Try to do something constructive instead of wasting 30 minutes on watching Television.(studying, doing choures around the house etc.)
 * Don't take what you see 'serously' and even if you do watch it



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